"They've been caught! Your Majesty has foresight. These two bastards were caught one after the other on the path north of the city."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and a team of soldiers came up with one or two hundred people in high spirits.
They were dressed in gorgeous clothes, but their hair was a little messy, and they were tied together with ropes.
There were men and women of all ages. The two leaders were the prefect and the general. They even brought their concubines with them, but they left behind these children.
They were led behind the children, and a dozen soldiers forced them to kneel down.
Helian Lingfeng looked at them with disdain in his eyes.
"Except for those three children, beat up the rest first."
The people kneeling were looking at him in astonishment. Not killing, but beating?
Helian Lingfeng's men had almost no hesitation. As soon as he gave the order, one or two hundred soldiers rushed over with horse whips in hand.
“Swish!”
"ah--!"
“Swish!”
“Ahhhhh!!!”
Screams rang out one after another, and except for the children, all the others who escaped rolled on the ground.
"Please spare my life! Your Majesty, please spare my life!"
"Please spare our lives, King Mobei, and spare us!"
"Your Majesty, I, I can make a deal with you. I have the border defense map of Badong Baqu. Your Majesty, I can help you capture those two cities faster."
The speaker was Wu Jin, the city defense general of Wei Xing. After he finished speaking, he rolled to the side to avoid the whip.
Then he said, "No, not two, but three. These three cities are a token of my sincerity in surrendering to the king."
Not only the Daqi people behind him, but even the benefited Mobei Army thought he was extremely shameless.
How could a military commander be so afraid of death?
Helian Lingfeng looked at him, with no emotion in his eyes. Unless he shouted to stop, the soldiers who were beating him would not stop.
When the people were beaten so hard that they couldn't even scream, they raised their hands to ask people to stop. Everyone was dragged away, leaving only the three children who were not beaten.
Helian Lingfeng rode over, glared at them, and asked, "Are you the children of those two cowards?"
The older child crawled forward, knelt straight, and saluted. "Jiang Zeyuan, the fifth son of the Weixing Commandery Governor, greets the King of Mobei."
The other two children followed suit and saluted, "We are the seventh daughter of the Weixing Commandery Governor, and we are honored to meet the King of Mobei."
"Wu Chengshu, the ninth son of the Weixing Commandery General, greets the King of Mobei."
There were three children in total, two boys who were a little older, and a girl who looked only three years old and could hardly speak straight.
They knelt in front of Helian Lingfeng, and he even saw some determination in their eyes.
A child of only a few years old.
Unfortunately, it is Daqi's child.
"Someone come!"
"exist!"
"Take him away first!" If it were usual, he would definitely kill the children of officials in Daqi.
But now his little nine is pregnant, and these children are all poor illegitimate children who were abandoned.
Or I should wait until I meet Xiaojiu and ask her what to do.
He felt some compassion for the children, but not for the ones who had escaped.
At that time, he did not agree to Wu Jin and still had people beat him.
Wu Jin was quite smart. He knew that since Helian Lingfeng had not agreed to his surrender conditions at the time, he would not let him go.
So no matter how they asked him later, he refused to speak. After being starved in the dungeon for two days, Helian Lingfeng sent people to eat outside the cell every day.
The food was delicious and the starving people in the cell couldn't hold on for long.
After obtaining the defense maps of the two cities in Badong, the Mobei Army was unstoppable and captured the two cities faster than expected.
They even took over an extra one, including the Dongdangqu Liao next to Baqu.
After taking it, he handed over all the tasks to his subordinates, and rushed back without stopping with several boxes of newly acquired treasures.
The day I returned, Tu Qingyu gave birth.
He didn't even have time to change his clothes. He put down the things in his hands and carried the baby into the delivery room.
Tu Qingyu did not let himself give birth too quickly this time. Helian Lingfeng, who was outside, watched basins of blood being carried out, and the joy of winning the battle just now disappeared.
As time went by, his face became paler and paler.
"Hasn't the baby been born yet?" A maid brought out a basin of blood, and he immediately asked, "Why is it taking so long? What did the doctor say? What did the midwife say?"
The maid was about to kneel down, but he pulled her back and said, "Hurry up and tell me!"
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and the Royal Physician said that the Queen Mother is in labor slowly, but she is fine."
"What do you mean it's fine? There's no movement inside. How can it be fine with so much blood?"
He started going to the battlefield when he was fourteen, fighting in the sea of blood and corpses. He had never felt that the color red was so glaring.
This red color even scared him.
The maid fell to her knees immediately after being yelled at by him, and the concubine next to her could not bear to watch it anymore.
"Calm down first." He then said to the person kneeling on the ground, "Go in first."
When the maid went in, Helian Lingfeng also wanted to go in, but was stopped by the concubine.
"What are you doing in there?" She looked at her son's impulsive expression, and her dissatisfaction with Tu Qingyu increased. "Every woman goes through this when giving birth."
Every woman giving birth is like this, and only her son loves her like this.
"Mother, she must be in pain. I want to go in and accompany her."
The concubine always felt that the delivery room was unlucky and didn't want him to go in, but she was also afraid that the way she said it would backfire.
After thinking for a while, he advised earnestly, "Now is her most embarrassing moment. Which woman would like to face her husband with this face? Wait a little longer. If Qingyu calls you, it's not too late for you to go in."
"But she...why is she silent now?"
"She's gathering strength. Don't worry, as long as Doctor Wang inside doesn't speak, she'll be safe."
He was temporarily persuaded, and soon ran to the window of the delivery room again, "Xiaojiu, are you okay? Let me go in and accompany you, okay?"
"No, no... wait a minute..."
It was not until he heard Tu Qingyu's weak voice that he felt a little relieved.
But this weak voice still made his heart feel like it was being pricked by needles, causing a sharp and intense pain.
He stood outside the window for as long as Tu Qingyu was born.
He pried the door frame with his hands, his nails dug into the door panel, debris pierced his nails, and he didn't care even when blood flowed out.
It was not until the evening when a baby cried in the room that he felt like he was reborn.
I moved my feet and found that they were weak, so I had to hold on to the door frame to keep my balance.
At this time, the midwife came out, holding the baby in the swaddling clothes, and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, on the birth of your daughter."
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