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The courtyard of the rich gentry Li Yishi is not very large, but it is quite elegant and chic, and after Qin Mu came to Jiangyin, he temporarily lived here.

The great sacrifice for the dead has ended, and tomorrow Qin Mu will rush to Yangzhou to preside over another big sacrifice in Yangzhou, which is the last night he has stayed in Jiangyin.

In the past two years, Qin Mu felt like a clockwork that had been wound up, constantly turning, and it was rare to have a moment of leisure;

This evening, standing on the pavilion of the annex, looking at the autumn scenery of a garden, the clouds and mountains outside the wall, I felt some emotion in my heart, and sighed inexplicably: "The smoke lock poplar Yupu is late, and the wind is singing in the autumn of the yellow leaves and Fengcheng." ”

Yun Qiao'er asked curiously, "Brother Qin, why is there only two sentences in this poem?" ”

"Because I only remember two sentences."

Qin Mu's honest answer surprised Yun Qiao'er and wanted to laugh, but she found that Qin Mu's interest was a little sluggish, and she couldn't laugh after all.

"Brother Qin, do you have something on your mind?"

Just now, the red lady turned around and listened to Yun Qiao'er's question, and couldn't help but stop and listen.

But Qin Mu stood on a high place, saw her from a distance, and said with a smile: "I thought you wouldn't come?" ”

"There is food and drink, why don't you come?" The red lady answered and walked towards the gazebo.

When she arrived at the pavilion, Qiao'er smiled and said, "Sister Ying'er, let's talk, I'll let someone serve the food, tonight is the dish that people cook by themselves, Sister Ying'er must eat more." ”

As soon as Qiao'er left, Qin Mu and the two people were left in the pavilion, and the red lady immediately looked a little uncomfortable, and she even asked something like this when she was cramped: "I haven't heard you make a poem for a long time, was that poem made by you just now?" ”

Qin Mu wanted to laugh a little, the red lady actually cared about the poems, isn't this strange.

This girl doesn't know much, but she has a strong sense of self-esteem, Qin Mu couldn't help it, if she laughed. Maybe she'll overreact.

"I didn't do it, I read it some time ago, I only remember these few sentences."

The red lady smiled, it turned out that he also had a time when he was losing his studies, and suddenly, the red lady felt that the distance between him and Qin Mu had narrowed a little, and her expression was a lot more natural.

In fact, in front of Qin Mu, the red lady has always had an inferiority complex in her heart, and this inferiority complex coupled with strong self-esteem will make her deliberately show her disdain for Qin Mu.

"Ying'er, sit down. Since you are bent on leading troops to fight, I will not restrain you, but do you really want to? ”

The red lady was very rarely silent, silently looking at the cloud mountain outside the wall, on the other side of the mountain, the sunset in the west began to dye the sky with beautiful evening makeup, but everyone knows that no matter how beautiful this night makeup is, it will disappear soon after all. Just like the red face in the years.

"The price of freedom is loneliness." Qin Mu sighed lightly.

The red lady looked at him, but still didn't speak, and her heart was filled with an empty sky and a lonely wilderness under the sky: this world is so wide. Let the lonely so slow, the wolf of the wilderness, for whom it wanders, look at the heavens. So I cut out the moonlight and shot it at my hometown

"Don't talk about it, I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear it. ”

"Well, I'm not going to talk about that."

"Actually, you're the one who is alone."

The red lady suddenly came out with this sentence, which surprised Qin Muda, he smiled and did not answer.

Outside the wall, the sound of the Hongsheng is broken and the clouds are blue, the smoke of the oblique furnace in the pavilion is straight, the two of them sit opposite each other, not much talk, a few words, but like a dragonfly on the surface of the water, a small ripple spreads a pool of autumn water.

There are Qiao'er, Yang Zhi, Xiangjun, and hundreds of thousands of troops, aren't you lonely?

Qin Mu set his eyes on the face of the red lady, the beauty is heroic, the battlefield of blood and fire belongs to men, the red lady is mixed in the world of men all day long, making herself appear stronger than men, but, isn't she lonely?

"Maybe only loneliness can really understand loneliness." Qin Mu said with a smile.

"Let's get drunk tonight." When it comes to drinking, the red lady has become very arrogant again.

"Okay, let's get drunk."

Yun Qiao'er took two little girls to bring up the wine and food, there were eight dishes and one hot, and the two jars of daughters were red, which was quite hearty.

At this dusk, Qin Mu and the red lady drank to the end of the glass, but the result was a little embarrassing, Qin Mu couldn't drink others, so he fell down first.

Early the next morning, Qin Mu fulfilled his promise and asked the Red Lady to be the general of Chuzhou, leading 5,000 men and horses to garrison Qingliu Pass.

Chuzhou is only about 100 miles away from Jinling, there is a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles in its north, it is a southwest-northeast direction, it is a natural barrier, Qingliuguan is located on the mountain ridge in the north of Chuzhou, looking at the Yangtze River in the south, controlling Jianghuai in the north, it is the place where Jinling to Fengyang must pass, it is known as "Jinling lock and key", it is the place where soldiers must fight since ancient times.

Qin Mu was also going to Yangzhou to go on the same road with the Red Lady, he called the Red Lady to his boat, and said patiently: "Chuzhou is less than three hundred miles away from Fengyang Mansion, it is the most important barrier in Jinling, and it is likely to become the main target of the Qing army's attack, and now I will hand it over to you." ”

The red lady wished to taste it, and replied seriously: "Don't worry, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, we have fought with Lu Xiangsheng in the area of Zhulong Bridge, and we are very familiar with the terrain of Qingliu Pass, and you will not be wrong to hand over Qingliu Pass to me." ”

"Then have you heard of how Song Taizu captured Qingliu Pass in the first place?"

"I've heard that Zhao Kuangyin heard the words of a person named Zhao Pu, and sent troops to bypass a trail behind Qingliu Mountain, and suddenly appeared behind the defenders of the Southern Tang Dynasty, causing the Southern Tang army to be defeated, don't worry, that trail has long been sealed and difficult to pass, as long as you send a police post to patrol it."

"Well, did I send you to guard Qingliu Pass?"

"Because I'm a woman."

Qin Mu was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but take a new look at the red lady, she has a bold personality, or can be said to be rude, but under the rough appearance, she does not lose a woman's delicate heart.

"Tell me, what do you see?"

"You're going to dig another pit for the Tartars to jump. Qingliu Pass is such an important pass, you leave it to me, a female streamer, to guard, the Tartars look down on me as a woman, and it is likely that the light division will come to attack Qingliu Pass. It's the middle of September, and the weather is likely to get cold suddenly, and if the Tartars don't break through quickly, a sudden change in weather can make them defeated. ”

When Qin Mu heard this, he couldn't help but show a smile, and raised his hand to signal: "Yes, yes, go on." ”

"If the Tartars gather heavy troops to attack the Qingliu Pass, I will drag the Tartars under the pass"

"How to delay, let's talk about it in detail."

The heroism on the red lady's body became stronger and stronger, and her tone was full of confidence and reason: "Hide part of your strength, make Qingliuguan look shaky, and make the Tartars want to stop, so as to drag the heavy troops of the Tartars, and then let Meng Ke of Luzhou quickly go north to attack Shouzhou, and the water and land division of Huai'an will advance west along the Huai River, capture Fengyang, and cut off the return route of the Tartars." ”

"Very good, the Qingliu Pass guard will be you, since you know my strategic intentions, you should know what to do, remember, your task is to defend, not to attack easily. If the Tartars don't come, just come, as long as you keep the Qingliu Pass, the whole Annihilation of the Tartars in Huainan will be half of the success, remember? ”

"What are you talking about? You also look down on me as a woman? ”

"Whoever makes you always deliberately arrogant in front of me, no one will rest assured, I'm worried that you are still fighting with me."

This time, the red lady not only did not refute Qin Mu, but also lowered her head and said in an unprecedentedly gentle tone: "Don't worry, I know the severity." ”

"Take care of yourself, don't be like you are in Wuyang Pass, take 10,000 steps back, even if Qingliu Pass can't be held, we still have the Yangtze River natural danger to drag the enemy army, and we can also let Huai'an and Luzhou implement the plan to cut off the enemy's rear road, do you understand what I mean?"

The red lady raised her head and glanced at him, there was some complicated emotions in her eyes, she didn't answer, nodded and retreated.

Qin Mu quietly looked at her back as she left, feeling like a wild goose flying alone.

He sat alone in the cabin and thought, letting the red lady go to guard the Qingliu Pass is to release a bait, although the Qin army should not send troops to the two Huai in a big way, but if you can take advantage of the weather and the situation of the mountains and rivers, with a small number of troops to hit the Qing army, it is naturally a good thing.

Chuzhou is only a hundred miles away from Jinling, and Jinling can rush to the aid in one day, so Qin Mu is not too worried about handing over this pass to the red lady.

This is a pit he dug casually, it doesn't matter if the Qing army doesn't come to jump, if it comes, the ratio of income and investment may be maximized, why not? .

(To be continued......)