The two walked out of the house, and Zhang Yun stopped a hurried pedestrian to ask what had happened.
"The rebels in Jinzhou have attacked the city. I have to get out of here now."
After speaking hastily, the man shook off Zhang Yun's hand and disappeared.
Have the bandits from Jinzhou all fled to their northwest?
Zhang Yun and Qin Zheng exchanged a glance, then went back inside.
"My things are packed, let's go." Qin Zheng said before Zhang Yun could sit down.
Zhang Yun opened his mouth as if to say something, but then gave up.
Although he had completely veered off course from the plot, based on his experience, it would be a miracle if the protagonist could escape such a situation.
The two mounted their horses and quickly rode to the city gate, only to find that the gates of Luming Town were already closed.
Luming Town is a small town with only two city gates, both of which are now closed, and surrounded by tens of thousands of rebel troops.
It would be a miracle if Luming Town could hold out for three days without falling, given its city walls and military strength.
They could only return to their lodgings for the time being.
Qin Zheng sat in the chair, looking somewhat dejected.
Seeing this, Zhang Yun sat on his lap, wrapped her arms around his neck, and affectionately rubbed her nose against his chin. "What's wrong?"
Qin Zheng put his arm around his waist and kissed him on the lips. "It's all my fault. I insisted on keeping you here. If I had listened to you and settled in Ziyan City earlier, you wouldn't be stuck here."
Zhang Yun laughed, "This is not something you can predict. Besides, you said you would go back after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I agreed to that. If we're talking about right and wrong, we made the mistake together."
Qin Zheng didn't say anything, but held him tightly in her arms.
The atmosphere remained somewhat silent.
Zhang Yun rested her chin on his shoulder and patted his back, saying, "Don't overthink it. Let's think about what we should do next. There's always a way out."
You're the main character.
Qin Zheng pondered for a moment before saying, "We'll go to the government office later to reveal your identity and help defend the city as much as possible. If we really can't hold it any longer, I'll take you with me when the city falls."
"good."
"Ah Yun, do you regret it?" Qin Zheng suddenly asked.
Zhang Yun was taken aback, straightened up and met his somewhat uneasy gaze, then laughed, "Of course I don't regret it, these past few days have been the most worthwhile days of my life."
This statement truly came from the bottom of my heart.
Qin Zheng pressed his head down and kissed him, and Zhang Yun responded passionately.
The two kissed for a long time before separating.
Zhang Yun wanted it, but Qin Zheng pulled it off him.
He gently flicked Zhang Yundi's nose. "Go to the county office to take care of official business first. Once it's safe, I'll give you as much as you want."
The two went to the county government office together. Qin Zheng took out the Wangfu token, introduced Zhang Yun's identity, and went straight in. There, they saw a group of officials bustling about in a panic.
Upon hearing the announcement that the Crown Prince of the Northwest had arrived, everyone froze, stopped what they were doing, and came over to pay their respects.
"How is the situation now?" Zhang Yun asked one of them.
"The magistrate has gone out to gather the militia to defend the city. We don't know the situation, but it's not going to be too optimistic."
"Has the rescue message been sent out?"
It's impossible to expect the people of just one town to hold the city; we can only try to delay until reinforcements arrive.
Fortunately, Luming Town is the territory of the Northwest King, unlike other places in the Yun Kingdom, where the army has long been a mere shell of its former self.
If the rebels from Jinzhou come to cause trouble, the garrison troops of nearby major cities will surely rush to their aid as soon as they receive the news.
If this were another city, the city's leaders would probably have fled before the fighting even started, leaving the city's inhabitants to be slaughtered.
The officials in Luming Town are quite responsible and efficient, and they quickly allocated supplies for defending the city.
The county magistrate immediately went to the city gate to boost morale, stabilizing the situation and blocking the first fierce attack of the rebels.
However, the walls of Luming Town are too low, and the town lacks effective defensive supplies. Under the rebels' relentless attack of filling the city with lives, it should not be able to hold out for long.
That night, the city's defenders and civilians could not withstand the rebels' desperate attack on the city walls, and the city fell.
Qin Zheng had been keeping a close eye on the movements at the city gate. He woke up the moment the city fell, woke Zhang Yun, and the two of them rode out of the city gate together.
Because the north gate was breached first, a large number of rebels flocked to the north gate, wanting to be the first to enter the city and loot. The number of rebels at the south gate decreased sharply, and most of the wealthy households and officials' families with servants and guards in the city fled through the south gate.
Zhang Yun and Qin Zheng mingled among these people and left the city together.
Once outside the city gate, Qin Zheng spurred his horse into a gallop. Wu Xing Ta Yue's speed was exceptional, and the two quickly distanced themselves from the fleeing crowd.
Those who fled also helped to draw away the rebel forces remaining at the south gate.
But perhaps the protagonists were destined to attract attention, or perhaps they ran too fast and were too obvious, a group of rebels on the south gate noticed them, and immediately a leader or someone of similar stature led dozens of riders to chase after them.
Even though Wuxing Tayue was a magnificent steed, with two people on board, it couldn't match the speed of a single horse.
As the pursuers closed in, Qin Zheng wrapped his arms around him from behind and whispered in his ear, "A-Yun, turn around."
Zhang Yun turned around and was kissed in the face.
He kissed him very hard, as if he wanted to suck all the oxygen out of his chest.
Zhang Yun was so dizzy from his kiss that she forgot they were still running for their lives.
Zhang Yun's thoughts went blank for a moment. When she came back to her senses, she heard Qin Zheng's voice, which was choked with sobs: "A-Yun... don't forget me."
He realized his hands were tied, and his back was suddenly empty. Wu Xing Ta Yue beneath him let out a painful scream and suddenly accelerated, rushing away into the distance.
Zhang Yun then realized that the rope binding his hands was the reins for controlling a horse. His consciousness returned fully, and he turned and shouted behind him:
"Qin Zheng! What are you doing! Qin Zheng! Qin Zheng! You bastard, you big bastard!"
Qin Zheng had already engaged in combat with the pursuers behind him.
The group of rebels who were chasing him were badly injured by him. Seeing his skill, they began to shoot him with arrows.
Qin Zheng's right hand, which was holding the knife, was hit by an arrow.
Zhang Yun was both angry and anxious, and her eyes were red from crying.
He tugged at the reins desperately, trying to stop the horse, but even pulling his hands until they bled, he couldn't stop the galloping Wu Xing Ta Yue from turning the horse around.
He twisted his waist, trying to jump off the horse, but failed.
Zhang Yun recalled that when they had just left the city, Qin Zheng had said that he was going too fast when he was controlling the horse at full speed, and that he was afraid that he would lose his balance and fall off, so he tied his legs to the stirrups with ropes!
fraud!
You little bastard who acted on his own initiative!
Who asked you to sacrifice yourself!
Zhang Yun cursed inwardly.
With one less person on his back, Wu Xing Ta Yue moved with incredible speed, quickly carrying him away from the brutal battlefield.
As dawn broke, Wu Xing Ta Yue's strength waned, and Zhang Yun finally managed to control it and stop it.
Suddenly seeing banners fluttering in the distance, Zhang Yun hurriedly raised his bound hands to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, only then realizing that they were reinforcements coming from nearby Ziyan City.
Zhang Yun immediately shouted to the group of people.
The general leading the troops was a soldier who had served under the Northwest King. Although Zhang Yun had only met him once when he was a child, he recognized the black horse that rode him, Wuxing Tayue.
Upon seeing that it was none other than the long-lost young prince, the general leading the troops was immediately overjoyed. He quickly untied Zhang Yun from his horse and showered him with concern.
Zhang Yun had no time to pay attention to his flattery and told him to quickly lead his troops to support Luming Town.
With Zhang Yun's orders, the army marched at full speed and arrived at Luming Town in just two hours.
While the rebels in Jinzhou were still celebrating their victory by massacring the town, Zhang Yun arrived with reinforcements, and the rebels who remained outside the city were immediately wiped out.
How dare this rabble face the renowned Northwest Iron Army?
They scattered in panic.
Deer Town was captured in just one night and was immediately recaptured. However, the once prosperous and bustling town had become like hell.
This was the first time Zhang Yun had ever witnessed such a bloody and cruel scene so directly.
Half-congealed blood, corpses, and various fragmented limbs were everywhere. The gruesome scene of the woman being violated and then killed instantly drained the color from his face.
When history unfolds in its most tragic form, no one can remain indifferent.
For the first time, Zhang Yun clearly realized Qin Zheng's significance to the world.
This world is not a dating game for him to play around with; it is a real world with countless vibrant lives.
God gave her a second chance at life so that she could help Qin Zheng save the world.
"Would everything end if Qin Zheng became the emperor of this country?" Zhang Yun asked the system in his mind.
"Emperor is just a title. He only needs to be the supreme ruler; he doesn't necessarily need to be an emperor."
"I see."
...
Half a month later, at the county government office in Luming Town.
The officials and constables of Luming Town are either dead or have fled; there are hardly any left.
Zhang Yun had the county government office cleaned up and used as a temporary place for accommodation and office work.
In the past few days, he has taken over the work of the county magistrate, staying here to appease the remaining people, collect the corpses in the city, clean the streets, and rebuild their homes. The whole town of Luming is extremely grateful to him, the heir apparent.
"Young Master, you'd better go back quickly. While you were missing, the young princess has practically turned the Northwest upside down!"
Hu Lingxian, the general of Ziyan City who led the troops that day, advised.
Zhang Yun refused to leave Luming Town, and he dared not lead his troops back. He stayed there to guard Zhang Yun, fearing that something might happen to his ancestor.
The main reason Zhang Yun insisted on staying in Luming Town was that Qin Zheng had not been found.
For the past two weeks, he had Hu Lingxian's men search every inch of Luming Town, inside and out, and interrogate all the captured rebel prisoners, but they still couldn't find Qin Zheng's whereabouts.
He could only learn from the system's prompts that Qin Zheng was still alive, but his vital signs were weak.
Zhang Yun sat behind his desk in the county magistrate's office, with obvious dark circles under his eyes.
Ignoring Hu Lingxian, who came every day to persuade him to go back, Zhang Yun continued to ask a lean man standing in front of him: "Besides the bandits from Jinzhou, were there any remnants from Luocheng who attacked Luming Town this time?"
The man was the soldier in charge of interrogating prisoners. According to Zhang Yun's orders, he had to come and report on the interrogation results every day.
"Yes, among the prisoners being interrogated, some claimed that their leader was Yan Yueniang. Yan Yueniang was the daughter of Yan Liu, the former rebel leader of Luocheng. After Yan Liu was executed, this group of people followed her and fled into the mountains."
"Later they called themselves the Yan Women's Army and rose up with the rebels in Jinzhou. However, their group was small, only a few thousand people, and they wore red scarves around their arms to distinguish themselves."
The scene of Qin Zheng being surrounded and attacked that day had been playing out countless times in Zhang Yun's mind these past few days. He clearly remembered that the people who chased them all had red scarves wrapped around their arms.
It seems Qin Zheng has been captured by Yan Yueniang's men.
In the original story, Yan Liu is the refugee leader who saved Qin Zheng when he was on the verge of death and adopted him as his godson.
Later, Yan Liu's rebellion failed and he was killed. Qin Zheng was appointed to succeed him as the leader of the Tianhu Army and got together with Yan Yueniang.
Because of his intervention, Qin Zheng is no longer under Yan Liu's command. The Tianhu Rebellion Army he led was defeated and killed two years earlier than in the original story. Moreover, after Yan Liu's death, the position of leader of the Tianhu Army fell to his daughter, Yan Yueniang.
Since it was Yan Yueniang who kidnapped Qin Zheng, she probably wouldn't kill him, but rather...
Thinking about how Qin Zheng in the original story started by conquering Yan Yueniang, then began to expand his harem and power until he unified the world, he felt a little envious.
However, Qin Zheng has already been turned gay by himself. There was no spark when he was asked to practice martial arts with Zhang Caixing. What if he has no feelings for Yan Yueniang? Will he be killed by Yan Yueniang?
Zhang Yun suddenly regretted turning him gay.
If Qin Zheng were still the same straight man from the original story, Yan Yueniang would be doing him a disservice by capturing him.
But now, he is not.
Zhang Yun slammed his hand on the table and stood up, startling Hu Lingxian, who was standing opposite him.
"Get ready, I'm going to Luocheng," Zhang Yun said.
With the Jinzhou bandits defeated, Yan Yueniang must have led her men back to her stronghold in Qingshan Village, which is located near Luocheng.
Hu Lingxian froze for a second, then turned pale with shock and hurriedly advised him, "Young Master, you mustn't!"
"I'm leaving tomorrow to prepare!"
Zhang Yun felt a little dizzy, so he sat back down and rubbed his temples.
Hu Lingxian left with a long face.
The next morning, Zhang Yun went out, only to find Hu Lingxian with more than a dozen guards standing at the door.
Upon seeing Zhang Yun emerge, he clasped his hands in apology and said, "Your Highness, please forgive me. This humble general could not allow Your Highness to leave."
Zhang Yun remained calm. "You want to forcibly take me back?"
"This humble general dares not, it is..."
"I made him do it."
A familiar female voice came from behind him. Zhang Yun looked in the direction of the voice and saw Zhang Caixing.
"Third Sister..."
With red eyes, Zhang Caixing rushed over and hugged him tightly, then angrily slapped him on the back.
"You heartless brat! Do you know how worried your family is about you? Your mother cries every day, and your eldest sister feels so guilty. If it weren't for the people around her persuading her, she would have left Luoyan Pass to come and find you herself! And you, you didn't even send a letter home!"
Zhang Yun felt a little guilty. "I'm sorry, Third Sister. I didn't mean to. Something unexpected happened. I got sick and stayed in Luming Town for two months before the siege started..."
Zhang Caixing released him, grasped his arm, and looked him up and down. "Are you all cured of your illnesses? Are you injured anywhere?"
Zhang Yun quickly shook his head, took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears, "I'm sorry, I made you worry."
"You know that much! Come back with me to see Mother." Zhang Caixing glared at him.
“No,” Zhang Yun said.
“That’s fine…” Zhang Caixing started to say but then realized she had said “no,” and paused, pulling his hand. “What did you say?”
“I told you I can’t go back with you.”
Zhang Yun shook off her hand and took a step back. "I'm going to Luocheng to rescue Qin Zheng at Qingshan Village."
Zhang Caixing's smile vanished, and she looked at him scrutinizingly. "Are you serious?"
Zhang Yun nodded.
"All of you, step back!" Zhang Caixing suddenly ordered.
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