Chapter 272
Work with the inside and outside.
These eight words are enough to describe this war that has been praised by later historical books.
On the day when Huining City was broken, Yuan Wen was helpless. In the end, his personal guards wanted to escort him away from Huining, but Yuan Wen refused directly. Instead, he rushed back to Yuan's mansion from the city wall, burned incense, bathed in the bath, and changed his clothes. When he did all this, Qi Ling, who had already captured the entire Huining City, led the army to come late.
Yuan Wen held a cup of warm tea in his hand, but he had never touched it. He kept listening to the movement outside. Finally, as if he was waiting for the person he was waiting for, Yuan Wen's body moved slightly.
"Young Master, the Qi army has broken into the door. You still have time to escape now!" A guard suddenly broke into the door in panic, his body stained with blood, with traces of fighting, and was kneeling on the ground and begging.
Yuan Wen shook his head, "Where can you escape? My Yuan family has moved some young children out. If I die calmly, maybe they can still live safely and preserve a trace of blood for my Yuan family. If I also escaped, the Qi army would chase and kill them in order to prevent me from making a comeback.
I cannot be a sinner in the family.”
"Young Master..." The guard tried to persuade again in a deep voice, but the door of the inner room was suddenly rudely opened, and a large shadow fell into the room from the door. Yuan Wen narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Qi Ling who was walking in against the light.
"Young Master Yuan, I have long admired you as a model in the world." Qi Ling, wearing light armor, bowed his hand casually, and his movements seemed a little perfunctory.
Yuan Wen chuckled lightly, still calm. Just from his face, there was no trace of fear that had become a dog of a family. "I have long admired the name of Your Highness. Who would have thought that the young man who escaped from the imperial capital and was in a panic all day long could have reached this point today, and instead made me, Yuan Wen, become a dog of a family of a family."
"That's going to offend." Qi Ling waved his hand, and the two personal guards behind him leaped out and walked towards Yuan Wen.
Yuan Wen's eyebrows did not move, but just raised his hand and drank the tea in his hand in one gulp. Then, when the guards just touched him, some red blood slowly oozed out from Yuan Wen's lips.
"How can the role model in the world... fall into the opponent... be in prison..."
"The king of success... the enemy defeated!" He suddenly said sternly, then slowly fell down towards the door.
From beginning to end, Qi Ling looked at him coldly without any hesitation until the guards confirmed that Yuan Wen was dead, and Qi Ling ordered everyone to collect his body and bury him, and then turned around and left.
As Yuan Wen said, it is just a king who succeeds and defeats the enemy.
If he lost today, it would be his turn to end up like this.
If you are not prepared to lose your life at any time before fighting for the world, why should you stand out in this great battle?
While Qi Ling was dealing with the remnants of Yuan, Heng Yu was lying in Zong Gu's yard, occupying the hammock in the other party's yard, lying lazily on it and flipping through the script in his hand.
Although the whole family of the Zong family was implicated by the Yuan family, because Heng Yu himself stayed in the Zong Mansion and Qi Ling greeted the generals in advance, the aristocratic families in the city were a little nervous, and the street where the Zong family was located was rarely quiet.
Zong Gu walked out of the inner room and handed Hengyu a cup of tea.
Heng Yu reached out to take it, but Zong Gu did not let go, his eyes fell on her slender palm.
When Hengyu finally moved his eyes from the book and fell on Zong Gu, Zong Gu was reluctantly satisfied and handed the teacup in his hand to her, "Be careful of it."
Heng Yu took a sip and handed the cup back to Zong Gu.
Zong Gu had no choice but to take her and put her on the stone table next to her.
"Thank you for today." What he said was that she came to the Zong Mansion specifically, so that the army outside did not dare to disturb the Zong clan at will.
After all, they are all his tribe members. It is better to protect them if they can.
Heng Yu looked up at him lazily and asked, "What do you thank me? I just want to come and see the beauty. The troubled times are difficult, and it will take a while to have a good time to fill it."
Zong Gu sat down on the stone bench, three or four meters away from her. He held his cheek with one hand, and his eyes were shining brightly. "Look at it slowly." He also stared at Heng Yu and went to see.
Tsk, this person has learned bad things.
Heng Yu shook her head and sighed that the world was getting worse and worse, and that young man who was elegant and secluded easily became nervous was gone forever. So she simply spread the words in her hand and covered her face, fell asleep.
Seeing her smooth movements, Zong Gu couldn't help but laugh. He looked at the warm sun, but did not urge Hengyu to get up, but just went back to the room to get her a clean thin quilt cover.
When Heng Yu woke up, the situation in Huining City was completely controlled by Qi Ling. When he saw Qi Ling at night, Heng Yu did not ask about the issues of how the aristocratic races were cleaning up, but just chatted with Qi Ling at will.
She taught Qi Ling for so many years. If Qi Ling had to eliminate the roots, who could show mercy and who needed to be kind, she wouldn't know that she would kick Qi Ling off early and change her support.
In the war in the south, the two forces each threw more than 200,000 troops. Before the smoke of war had completely dissipated, Fu Zhi from the north rushed to achieve his goal of unifying the north.
On the other side of Qi Ling did not rush to swallow the other two forces, but was silently digesting the territory he had just captured.
In July, before the autumn harvest came, Fu Zhi successfully annexed the next forces.
Then, Qi Ling was still digesting the territory he had just captured, and Fu Zhi was also digesting the territory he had just captured to consolidate his rule.
This situation continued until the end of spring plowing in March of the following year. Qi Ling ordered two armies and horses to 50,000 each, starting his pace of unifying the south.
At the same time, Fu Zhi did not fall behind. He led his troops to 50,000 directly to attack the last remaining forces in the north, and started his pace of unifying the north.
In July of the same year, Hengyu won the victory and triumphant success.
In August of the same year, another army led by Qi Ling also conquered triumphantly.
The south is unified.
Fu Zhi was not behind for too long, and in September, the north was unified.
The forces from the north and the south confront each other through the vast Yangtze River, staring at each other.
Now, it depends on which force is the first to digest the swallowed force and recover its vitality.
In such a depressing atmosphere, Qi Ling is about to welcome his 20th crown.
As the leader of the southern forces, Qi Ling's crown ceremony was destined to be ordinary. When he was close to his crown ceremony, even Fu Zhi from the north sent a gift.
When Qi Ling heard the people under his command report Fu Zhi’s gift, he couldn’t help but smile with Heng Yu: “The wedding gift given to Fu Zhi by the teacher was quite proud that day, but he didn’t expect that the gift given to me by Fu Zhi was so concise.”
"Maybe he wanted to imitate me that day, and give me a big gift on the day of your prestige." Heng Yu looked through the gift list casually, and then threw it back on the table boredly.
A sharp light flashed through Qi Ling's eyes, "Then I want to see what methods Fu Zhi, who unified the north, could use."
Listening to this, he was a little arrogant and sharp, so many people dared not touch his eyebrows. Qi Ling's back was straight, so that all the counselors and generals at his next head subconsciously straightened their backs. Even He Tao, who was regarded as "sarcastic of the vulgarity", unconsciously restrained his sitting posture.
However, Heng Yu still looked lazy, and then he exposes Qi Ling's aura with casual words, "If you don't have any means, the soldiers will just block the water and soil. Then again, you will have to add a crown, and the wedding date should be scheduled."
Qi Ling almost swallowed by his saliva, and couldn't help but cough twice, glanced at Heng Yu with some shame and annoyance, "Teacher, is it time to discuss the wedding date now?"
"It's not that simple to unify the north." Heng Yu raised his hand and slammed his fingers, "not to mention that he needed to recuperate within the past or two years, he said that he had finally managed to conquer the country, so he would have to spend a lot of effort to restore people's livelihood. Can you be free within ten years?"
"..." Qi Ling no longer wanted to speak, so he simply responded to Heng Yu's joke with silence.
Based on his understanding of the teacher, the teacher must have thought that he looked too serious just now, so he couldn't help but want to use this topic to make him lose his skills.
Sure enough, when Qi Lingyi didn't speak, Heng Yu stopped talking about this topic.
However, Heng Yu did not pay attention to it, and other civil officials and generals were also concerned. It was normal to get married at this age. Judging from Qi Ling's current status, it was still too late to get married at this age.
So Qi Ling was hinted by several confidants to come to Hengyu, and wanted Hengyu to help him choose his wife.
If one day he can really unify the world, his wife will be the queen of the world. No matter what aspect, he has to choose. The elder he is closest to in this world is Heng Yu, so Qi Ling is the first to come over to ask Heng Yu for help.
"Let me help choose?" Heng Yu's face suddenly became a little strange, "Do you have any requirements?"
"There is an outstanding family background and outstanding character. You should be able to ride a horse and shoot a bow. It would be better if you have a certain understanding of the general trend of the world, and you will not be able to go together..."
As soon as Qi Ling said this, Heng Yu couldn't help but hold his forehead and interrupt him, "Are you choosing a wife or a counselor?"
Qi Ling paused and coughed awkwardly, "You can choose whatever you want any teacher anyway. I believe in the teacher's vision." After that, Qi Ling was afraid that Hengyu would settle the score with him, so he ran out.
The teacher has never liked trouble, but his wife's candidate must be weighed in many aspects. If he doesn't leave faster, he will probably be caught and taught a lesson by the teacher.
Heng Yu watched Qi Ling leave, and he sat withered for a while, suddenly got up and left the mansion, and ran around a long street to find Zong Gu.
Zong Gu himself has great talents. Before he did not attend the office, he was more disappointed with the situation. Now the south is in a mess. It is a time when people are short of people. Zong Gu was naturally assigned a position. Now he is responsible for sorting out internal affairs and criminal prisons. He is a typical internal affairs talent.
The desk in front of him was filled with a thick stack of documents, waiting for him to approve it. Zong Gu himself was extremely careful and the content written on the documents was quite detailed. When encountering some problems, he would even send someone to ask for it.
"There are assassins."
"Come here, come and protect your highness."
The screams of the people and the roars of the guards were mixed together. Qi Ling was still sitting quietly on the horse in this panic, without even moving his eyebrows.
He really doesn't need to worry.
Because a sword light as bright as a meteor suddenly exploded, Heng Yu's toes gently fell in front of Qi Ling. Before a set of sword moves were finished, more than a dozen assassins were killed.
Heng Yu stood still and shook the sword in his hand. All the blood stains stained on the sword were immediately shaken and splashed to the ground.
"Clean the venue, don't disturb Your Highness's ceremony." Qingpiaopiao said, and Hengyu left with his light skills again.
As if he was ready, more than a dozen guards ran out of the crowd and dragged the thief's body away. Qi Ling continued to ride a horse down, and the people soon forgot the assassination just now and screamed again to watch Qi Ling's ceremony.
After a moment, Heng Yu returned to the queue of He Tao and others, looked at He Tao and chuckled, "Ziheng, you have enough of a stable life, and it is time for some people to see blood. Don't make people think that Your Highness's sword is dull."
He Tao bowed and hurriedly stepped down.
"Fu Zhi has been too stable in the north recently. Those desperate people in the world have given them enough rewards to add some excitement to Fu Zhi's life." Heng Yu looked at Zuo Wu and continued to give orders.
Zuo Wu also bowed and left.
If she doesn't want to live some stable life, she will have to do what those people want.
Chapter completed!