The woman was thinking about how to escape from these people's hands, and her expression was stunned when she heard this, Zhen Mingku's kindness was very different from Liu Heimin's fierce spirit, she was silent for a while, then stood up and followed closely behind Zhen Mingku.

"Second Brother Hei, Da Liang, let's go back to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, the banquet has just begun."

……

In the Jianghuai Palace.

The group of people sitting around the table all stared curiously at the young woman who was eating as if she had been hungry for a few days, and they couldn't believe that this person was the princess of Pingyang, who had been announced to the world by the Tang Dynasty half a year ago, and had 30,000 households.

After drinking the last bowl of hot soup, the woman finally regained her breath, glanced around with some embarrassment, regained her lofty posture, raised her noble face, and said, "My princess is going to sleep!" ”

"You're a pig! Sleep when you're full! If you don't make it clear, you don't want to sleep in your life! ”

Xing'er couldn't see Zhen Ming's bitterness messing around with flowers and grass, and made a very bad example for Zhen Dengshan, seeing that he brought back a strange woman, she couldn't help but scream.

Princess Pingyang was frightened by her, and she hiccuped, and the people next to her couldn't help laughing.

Yue'er took Xing'er's hand on the side and said with a smile: "Okay, Xing'er, I see that she is hungry without food along the way, don't scare her." ”

Xing'er's anger subsided a little, and she glared at Zhen Mingku, bowed her head and ate sullenly, how dare Zhen Mingku provoke her.

Princess Pingyang took a while to stop hiccups, she was favored by her father and brother since she was a child. He had suffered such a grievance, his eyes gradually turned red, and tears swirled in his eyes. It never flowed down.

Everyone here can see the squeamishness of this princess, where is there half a point to create a prestigious women's army, the temperament of a battle-hardened female general?

When she eased up a little, the eldest grandson Belle handed her a tissue, and Princess Pingyang reached out to take it, wiped her tears, and looked up at her. Seeing that it was such a beautiful and gentle young woman, her heart was settled a lot, and there was a trace of gratitude in her eyes.

Zhen Mingku took the opportunity to ask: "If you are the general of the Women's Army." What about Ling Shuang? ”

Princess Pingyang saw so many people eating around a table, warm and harmonious, forgive them and would not be rude to her on such an occasion, how could they be afraid. Snorted coldly: "Father has locked her up." Said that she released the enemy generals privately. ”

Zhen Mingku's face changed: "How is she now?" ”

Princess Pingyang gloated and smiled: "I don't know about this, although she is a righteous daughter, the eldest brother has never regarded her as a younger sister, she was sent into Baihualou by her father since she was a child, lurking in Luoyang, and has always exchanged news with the second brother, otherwise my eldest brother would not let the women's army play the striker, you made my eldest brother so angry that he vomited blood twice this time." If he goes back this time, your frost will suffer. Maybe I'm going to take her out of my anger! ”

Xing'er, who was eating silently, suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks when she heard this, stood up and walked over, raised her hand and slapped her in the face, beating her on the spot, and a red palm print floated on her snow-white cheeks.

"If she's missing a hair, you'll pay for her!"

Everyone present was stunned, but they didn't expect that Xing'er, who had always been just a powerful mouth, started a fire, and there was a hint of the taste of a tigress, Princess Pingyang's expression was a little sluggish, obviously not believing that anyone in this world dared to slap her.

Zhen Mingku was silent, put down the dishes and chopsticks, stood up silently, and walked out of the house alone without saying a word.

Yue'er wanted to get up and chase out, but was grabbed by the eldest grandson Belle and shook her head gently.

The hot pot soup base on the table was boiling, making a popping sound, the room was quiet, no one wanted to speak, after so many years, except for the time when the Zhang family was killed, it was the first time they saw Zhen Mingku's lost soul.

……

Heavy snow days.

On the castle tower of Liyang.

A group of guards were sitting around the stove, eating roast lamb legs, talking and laughing, and seeing Zhen Ming's suffering, they hurriedly stood up and returned to their posts.

Zhen Ming waved his hand absentmindedly: "Eat yours, don't worry about me." ”

One of the guards tentatively asked, "King, would you like to eat something with us?" Fatty lamb just out of the pot. ”

Sitting in the warm city tower house with a few sentinels of the city tower, Zhen Ming was holding a bowl with a sluggish expression, and the aroma of mutton pot overflowed the whole room, and the sentinels did not dare to move the chopsticks when they saw that he had not eaten.

After a while, Zhen Mingkugu came back to his senses from his daze, and saw a room full of people staring at him inexplicably, smiled, and asked, "Is there any wine?" ”

"Yes!"

……

A group of sentinels watched the drunken Zhen Mingku's back walk down the tower, staggering and disappearing into the heavy snow, looking at each other.

"What's wrong with the king? I've never seen him drink so much. ”

"It's not like it, I don't think he's in a very good mood, is there a change in the battle situation?"

"I don't think it's like it, the Tang army has just suffered a big defeat, General Liu and General Li have just returned victorious, and the Tang army is temporarily unable to attack Liyang City, it must be for other reasons......"

One person said: "Just now the king asked us if we want to continue fighting, but you dare to say that you don't want to fight anymore, and you just want to go home to see your parents, wife and children. ”

The sentinels were reminded of it, and when they came back to their senses, they all broke out in a cold sweat.

One person said with palpitations: "It's better to mix with the chief less in the future, maybe one day someone will catch the handle, and I don't know how to die." ”

"No way, the king is not such a person."

"Who knows, if you can know what the king thinks, you won't be a little sentinel here, I heard people say that this time the 300,000 troops of the Tang army were defeated and defeated without a fight, but it was all the king's strategy......"

"Don't guess, this kind of thing is not for us little soldiers to talk about, let's go, drink and ......"

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Winter goes to spring, and in Luoyang in April of the fifth year of Wude, the snow has begun to disappear.

Spring did not bring a trace of spring vitality to the people of Luoyang, because at this time, dozens of kilometers away from Luoyang City, the Jianghuai army was pressing the border and ready to attack Luoyang City at any time.

The news of the Jianghuai army's counterattack on Luoyang has already spread in Luoyang City.

No one thought that after Li Jiancheng, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 to attack Liyang City in vain, the Jianghuai army would be able to launch a counteroffensive in such a short time.

The Jianghuai army, which had never attacked, began to mobilize troops and horses just after the Lantern Festival, and the troops were raised from Liyang, sweeping along the Grand Canal with a rainbow momentum, sweeping the cities along the way, and the troops came to Luoyang City in only two months.

The entire Luoyang City was filled with an atmosphere of saber rattling.

There are more controls and checkpoints in the city, and the streets are patrolled by heavily armed iron cavalry from time to time.

The owners of some teahouses and taverns in Luoyang took the opportunity to find people who were flexible in their mouths, exaggerating the intensity of the war, attracting many Luoyang people who did not know the truth to come to inquire about the news, and thus booming business.

In one of the largest teahouses in Luoyang, several people gathered around a tea table, drinking tea, and sharing gossip with others.

"Have you heard? This time, the 30,000 Jianghuai army sent troops from Liyang in February, all the way up along the canal, it took only a month, to conquer more than 10 cities along the way, and hit the city of Luoyang, compared with last year's Liu Heimin's army, its courage is more than equal, I really can't imagine that Du Fuwei, who has always shrunk the Jianghuai region, has such a tiger and wolf division! ”

"I just defeated a Liu Heimin, and now there is another Du Fuwei, I think that back then, they were all famous generals of the Zhen family's army, where can the army they lead be worse? Hey, if it weren't for General Zhen, the commander of the Zhen family's army, who was killed by Li Guy and Wang Shichong, these people would not have rebelled, one of them fought to the death for revenge, and the other fought for the world, and it was not the people of Luoyang who suffered. ”

"I'm afraid that Luoyang is in danger this time, facing the Jianghuai army that even 100,000 Tang troops have returned, I only hope that after the city is broken, General Du Fuwei will not be angry with the people of Luoyang."

"I'm not very worried about this, at the beginning, Liu Heimin's Handong army was not also like a bamboo, conquering countless cities, what happened, it was not led by Li Shimin's black iron cavalry in the battle of Zhushui, the whole army was wiped out, and fled in embarrassment, since the prince Li Jiancheng led the army to attack Jianghuai and was defeated, the defender of Luoyang was replaced by Li Shimin, the king of Qin, as long as the king of Qin guarded Luoyang, the Jianghuai army may not be able to cross the Luohe River."

"Yes, the fierce generals of Tiance Mansion are like clouds, and there are eldest grandsons and auxiliary machines, and a far-sighted military advisor like Liu Wenjing helps to make suggestions, and the outcome is still unknown."

"I'm not as optimistic as you, I heard that the last time Liu Heimin was defeated, the Niangzi Army made great contributions, there was no Niangzi Army secretly spying on intelligence, plotting to assassinate enemy generals, and disintegrating the opponent's combat power, the Tang Army may not be able to easily defeat the Handong Army, and now the Niangzi Army rebelled against the enemy when attacking the Jianghuai Army, without this resistance, the Jianghuai Army's combat power will be stronger than the Handong Army."

One of them whispered mysteriously, "What do you know, I'll tell you a secret......

The one who spoke was a restaurant regular, nicknamed "Bao Inquire", and no gossip could escape his pair of whistle-blowing ears, and his gossip was fulfilled nine times out of ten, and I don't know where he scavenged so much news.

Hearing this, everyone showed curious looks and leaned over to the ear.

"I heard a letter from a distant nephew of mine who defected from the Tang Army to the Jianghuai Army, saying that the Tang Army's military spirit was in turmoil, and the Women's Army was not defeated in the hands of the Jianghuai Army, but was sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder by the prince Li Jiancheng, and the Women's Army was disheartened, so they voted for the Jianghuai ......Army."

"Shhhh You dare to say this kind of thing, if you are heard by the Li family's eyeliner, beware of catching you and cutting off your head! (To be continued......)