Chapter 0117 Defending the City
Xiao Rong slept until he woke up naturally, and not only missed breakfast, but also missed lunch.
He hadn't eaten for a long time, no wonder he felt like a paper man after waking up.
No one called him, but looking at the sky, Xiao Rong knew that this morning would definitely not be peaceful. Biting the hard dry food, Xiao Rong tried hard to swallow the stone-like noodles while looking for Qu Yunmie and Gao Xunzhi.
As expected, he missed not only two meals, but also the first wave of attack launched by Qu Yunmie.
There are corpses everywhere in front of the gate of Hanzhong. That is all Qu Yunmie's work. The defenders of Hanzhong are less than 10,000. If all these people rush out, Qu Yunmie can make them surrender in less than one morning or one hour. But they are hiding in the city, so the people outside can only attack the city again and again.
It sounds a bit troublesome, but it will only take a day or two, either tonight or tomorrow morning, and Hanzhong will be captured.
After experiencing the wolf-like battle against the Xianbei, these ragtag troops, who were not very well equipped or skilled, really did not catch the eye of the Zhenbei Army. …
When Xiao Rong came in, Qu Yunmie was discussing a battle plan with Gao Xunzhi. Gao Xunzhi was the only person who dared to stay in front of Qu Yunmie. Others could not stay for a while and had to find an excuse to leave. Although only the unlucky messenger was almost killed by the king, the king never raised his sword or gun against anyone afterwards, but it was not enough to just be scolded. They had not been scolded for a long time. When they suddenly returned to the past, everyone was still quite uncomfortable. …
Xiao Rong walked in. The marching conditions were not very good this time and there was no time to build a clay stove, so Qu Yunmie and Gao Xunzhi were both sitting on the ground with a charcoal basin between them. Xiao Rong looked at them and felt that if he also sat over there, he would have no place to put his legs and would have to sit next to them.
So he turned around and sat down on the bed over there.
Qu Yunmie: “…”
Gao Xunzhi: “…”
It was obviously a very common action, but both of them felt a little weird. One reason was that they had done two bad things behind people's backs yesterday. First, they said bad things about people, and then they went over to apply medicine to people without any backbone. Although he didn't know that Xiao Rong heard everything, even if he didn't know, it was enough to make him feel guilty.
The other one doesn't know what to say. It seems that neither side is right, so he just doesn't stand and pretends that he knows nothing.
Xiao Rong looked at the two of them, biting a corner of the pancake in his hand, exerting force little by little until there was a click, and the piece of pancake was finally bitten off by him. Then he began to chew it for a long time.
Over and over again, Xiao Rong's eyes kept wandering around Qu Yunmie and Gao Xunzhi's faces.
Qu Yunmie tried hard to ignore the sight over there and continued, "In two days, or at most three days, the remaining troops will arrive."
Gao Xunzhi: "...Shen Yangrui has already learned of the king's arrival. If it goes as I expected, they will let Yuan Baifu repel the king."
Upon hearing the name Yuan Baifu, Qu Yunmie's eyes instantly turned sinister, and then he sneered mercilessly: "Just him?!"
Gao Xunzhi, however, could not ridicule him as much as he did. His feelings towards Yuan Baifu were still very complicated. Until now, he could not accept Yuan Baifu's betrayal, and he did not understand why. Why did it have to come to this point?
Gao Xunzhi felt that he would have to think about this problem for the rest of his life. Yuan Baifu was too heartless, as if he did it on purpose, because everyone knew what kind of person Qu Yunmie was. He loved those he loved and hated those he loved. If he killed Wang Xinyong, he would never be accepted by the Zhenbei Army again. As for the king himself... he wished he could kill him with his own hands.
Thinking of Wang Xinyong, Gao Xunzhi felt even more upset.
Nine years... A total of nine years have passed since he met Wang Xinyong and got to know Wang Xinyong. They have been together through thick and thin. Yuan Baifu is Qu Yunmie's childhood friend, not Gao Xunzhi's. After the Xianbei massacred Yanmen Pass, Qu Yunmie became the commander of the remaining Zhenbei Army. Yuan Baifu, who was also a teenager, finally got to talk to Gao Xunzhi. So from Gao Xunzhi's perspective, his feelings towards those four people were similar.
Qu Yunmie: “…………”
After he said those three words, Gao Xunzhi fell silent for some reason. Qu Yunmie's expression also gradually became gloomy along with the quiet atmosphere. He stared at Gao Xunzhi and was about to question him.
Do you think I can't beat Yuan Baifu?
Okay, if you really think so, then just follow Yuan Baifu and leave!
Just as he was about to make a sound, Xiao Rong, who was sitting on the bed, suddenly started coughing. He coughed hard and patted his chest. The noise here attracted the two people over there. Gao Xunzhi and Qu Yunmie both stood up, and just as they were about to rush over, Xiao Rong swallowed hard and let out a sigh as if he had survived a calamity.
He wiped the non-existent sweat from his head, then smiled at them and said, "It's okay. I choked accidentally."
Qu Yunmie: “…”
He looked at Xiao Rong dimly, then sat back down heavily.
Gao Xunzhi didn't know Xiao Rong that well. He looked at him suspiciously and wanted to ask a military doctor to come over and take a look. However, Xiao Rong looked fine, so he had to sit back down, half believing and half doubting.
The atmosphere seemed less heavy. Xiao Rong bit off another piece of cake and asked them, "Has anyone gone to see General Wang?"
Gao Xunzhi nodded silently: "Yao Xian's personal soldiers said that Wang Xinyong was killed on the Lianyun plank road. I sent a team to look for his body yesterday. I hope it was not eaten by wild beasts. But now it is October and many days have passed."
Qu Yunmie listened in silence and said nothing.
Xiao Rong was also silent for a while, then asked, "I remember General Wang has a family?"
Gao Xunzhi: "He only has an elderly mother. Wang Xinyong is from the Wang family in Wu. It's not a noble family, but it's a very large clan. After he joined the Zhenbei Army, the Wang family was very harsh on his mother and his brother. Seven years ago, his brother died of an acute illness. Later, he secretly took his mother out. The Wang family knew about it, but they didn't say anything."
The clan was not exterminated, but it was almost the same. The reason why it was not put on paper was because Wang Xinyong himself was very powerful. His family members did not know whether Wang Xinyong could rise in the future, so they left a way out for themselves.
It means that the Wang family has lost their confidence. If it were a well-established family like the Xiao family, they would just get rid of you if they said so. …
He felt even more miserable. He was in his thirties, alone, with no relatives at home except his old mother, and his original family was so cold-blooded to him.
If this had happened in peacetime, Wang Xinyong would have been Qu Yunmie's only loyal subject and should have been well protected by Qu Yunmie.
However, this was not a peaceful era, but a war-torn era, so he died so quickly and quietly. What were others doing when he died? Xiao Rong couldn't remember, and this was one of the obstacles that Xiao Rong couldn't get over.
To him, it was a time that was not important at all and he was too lazy to even remember it, but it was the time when Wang Xinyong's life came to an end.
This time, Xiao Rong was silent for a longer period of time. After a while, he suddenly asked Gao Xunzhi: "What about Yuan Baifu? Does he have a family?"
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