Chapter 4 The third round of sudden compassion

The Xixia army that attacked Ganzhou set off from Liangzhou.The total force was 200,000, which were divided into more than ten troops. Every hour, a troop marched out from the gate of Liangzhou city made of earth and rocks, nonstop day and night, and lasted for a whole day.The troops marched westward from the water and grass area in the north of the city. The vanguard of each army was cavalry, followed by a long line of infantry, and at the end was a camel caravan composed of hundreds of camels. Grain. Zhao Xingde, who was assigned to the former army, joined the first team to leave the city.The former army was further divided into several detachments, each of which consisted of Han soldiers in the majority, and the rest were mixed with people of various nationalities.After passing through the water and grass area, there is a muddy road covered with gravel. As soon as we arrived in the afternoon, the march became very difficult.

It is about five hundred miles from Liangzhou to Ganzhou.Rivers originating from the Qilian Mountains flow into this dry land, forming oases one by one.For the first few days the troops marched in the middle of these rivers.On the second day, the troops camped by the Tanshan River; on the third day, they camped on the beach of an unnamed river beside the mountain.That night, the wind was strong all night, and the sound of the wind was like rolling thunder.On the morning of the fourth day, the troops came to the banks of the Shuimo River; on the afternoon of the fifth day, they entered a canyon with steep mountains on the north and south sides.After passing through this canyon, it was already the sixth day, and the troops decided to rest for a day.From here to Ganzhou, it is a flat road.

Early the next morning, the troops changed into battle formation and set off again.On both sides of the road are deserts where not a single blade of grass grows.The river here flows out of the ravines on the Loess Plateau. The loess on both sides of the river has been eroded and brought into the river, making the river water turbid and yellow.On the seventh and eighth days, the troops camped by the Yellow River, and from the seventh day onwards, guard posts were added to the camp at night. On the ninth day, the scouts in front reported that the Uighur army was heading in this direction to meet the Xixia army.After receiving the news, all the soldiers in the combat troops changed to light clothing, carrying only the weapons needed for combat.

On the morning of the tenth day, the Xixia army saw a broad belt consisting of a group of small black dots moving in their direction on a gentle hillside directly in front of them.At the same time, the order "All soldiers are ready to fight" came down from above.The five forward troops of the Xixia Army all transferred their cavalry to the front and changed them into columns. A group of 20 cavalry galloped forward.The infantry and supplies stayed away from the combat troops for a while and walked behind. On the open sandy land under a small hill, two armies spread out in a band were rapidly approaching.Zhao Xingde's team is about one third away from the forward.Zhu Wangli led the team of more than one hundred people. In front of the team was a yellow banner with a black character "Zhu" written on it, fluttering in the wind.

In the two armies, the horses galloped, and the yellow sand raised by the horseshoes covered the sky and the sun.The small black dot became bigger and bigger, and the two black belts seemed to be attracting each other, gradually approaching, and the distance was getting smaller and smaller. Suddenly, the drum beat loudly.At this moment, Zhao Xingde's eyes were suddenly covered by the dust raised by the horse's hoof, and he couldn't see anything.Zhao Xingde had no choice but to let go of the rein and let his horse run forward.There was a sudden sound of killing all around, and arrows and stones rained like rain.The vanguard of the two armies had already engaged in battle, and both rushed into the opponent's formation.As long as it is coming from the opposite side, it is the enemy. Based on this judgment, as soon as the two men came into contact, they immediately threw themselves into a scuffle.

Zhao Xingde was still the same as before, lying on his horse and shooting stones at the enemy with the whirlwind cannon.Flying arrows whistling around him, war horses neighing.Yellow dust covered the sky, and people could be seen everywhere in the haze.Xingde ran forward desperately, but this hellish battlefield seemed boundless, and he couldn't run to the end. Xingde suddenly felt that his surroundings were bright, as if he had been thrown out of a gloomy and dark cave into the sunny outside.Xingde couldn't help but glanced behind him.Zhu Wangli's face looked like an arhat, and he was following closely behind.

Their team broke free from "hell".Zhao Xingde looked back at the battlefield just now, feeling like daydreaming.Xingde finally breathed a sigh of relief when his steed climbed up a high hill.Looking from the hillside, the enemy's cavalry is also withdrawing from the battlefield just now. The cavalry is in the shape of a semicircle and is climbing up the opposite hillside.After a while, both sides turned their horses' heads. Like two magnets attracting each other, the two teams began to approach again in an attempt to fight again. The forwards of the two teams came into contact with each other and got mixed up.Soon after, Zhao Xingde entered the Abi Hell again, where ghosts were crying and wolves were howling.This time it was hand-to-hand combat, and the two sides launched a brutal hand-to-hand combat.But seeing the light of swords and shadows of swords, only heard the sound of killing.Zhao Xingde was ready to kill, so he simply threw the whirlwind cannon from the saddle, took a big knife, swung it away, and slashed at the Uighur who ran behind him.

Zhao Xingde escaped from the "hell" again, he felt as if he had been thrown into a illusory world.In front of my eyes are white sunshine, yellow sand dunes and blue sky with clouds floating in the sky.There are many other teams like him who have just escaped from the battlefield in front of him and behind him, but these teams are sparse and there are not many people left.He looked around and saw even fewer people he knew.He looked for a long time but couldn't find Zhu Wangli's figure.Zhao Xingde looked around the field while walking.The hell battlefield just now has been divided into two.The formation of men and horses that escaped from the battlefield is like a cocooned silk, drawing a semicircle and a parabola in the vast wilderness for a while.Bend, straighten, cross each other, draw various curves freely.The people and horses on the battlefield never stopped for a moment, and they were constantly moving and changing.Xingde and his team moved farther and farther away from the battlefield, unfolding into a belt, drawing a huge, gentle curve on the hillside.This army, which survived the battle, had met the enemy several times, but now it can no longer find an opponent.After a few rounds, the Uighurs were defeated.

The team made a big circle around the battlefield and galloped westward.At a place far from the battlefield, the troops stopped.As soon as the horse stopped, Zhao Xingde felt his body tilted from the horse's back and fell down.With his head down, the world in his eyes has become amazing.The white sky is down, the yellow desert is up, and the positions are reversed.Suddenly, he saw a blood-stained man, like an iron-clad arhat, riding on a horse, walking towards him and shouting loudly: "Are you alone?" Hearing this voice, he knew it was Zhu Wangli who came. "Aren't you safe, my lord?"

Zhao Xingde asked back with a smile. "How dare you be rude." Zhao Xingde quickly turned over and sat down, and replied seriously: "Hand virtues dare not joke, there are not many people alive." Zhu Wangli told him: "From today onwards, our team will be changed to attack Ganzhou's vanguard, so you can come too." There was a caring tone in the captain's tone. Zhao Xingde became dizzy for a while, and fell off his horse again.The shouts from the battlefield grew fainter and faded away.Soon, 3,000 soldiers and horses were transferred from the former army to supplement the vanguard.Zhu Wangli's subordinates increased to about 300, including Zhao Xingde.

The troops set off, Zhao Xingde tied himself on the horse's back, swayed, and dozed off as he walked forward.The troops arrived at a place with both a spring and a small river, and decided to rest for a while.Taking the opportunity of rest, Zhao Xingde asked Zhu Wangli to feed him some water. On this day, the troops were still on their way when it got dark, and it was not until midnight that they entered an oasis and began to camp.Under the white moonlight, you can see that there are pear and apricot trees planted here and there.Zhao Xingde untied the rope, got off the horse, fell to the ground and fell asleep.When I got up the next morning, I saw a large well-cultivated field beside me, and dozens of channels were opened in the field.At the end of the cultivated land is a low hill. The city wall can already be seen on the other side of the hill. It must be Ganzhou City. Breathing the clear morning air, the troops came to the gate of the city. Zhu Wangli gave an order, and hundreds of archers released their arrows together. Suddenly, the arrows shot into the city like locusts.But there was no reaction in the city at all. Zhu Wangli walked towards Zhao Xingde.He was still the same as yesterday, with blood all over his face, and he didn't know if it was his own blood or the enemy's blood, it looked really scary. "Organize fifty death squads and rush into the city. Take the lead." Zhu Wangli said to Xingde. After a while, a death squad of fifty people rushed into the city.The soldiers held broadswords and formed a square formation one by one, then walked and entered the city gate.As soon as you enter the city, there is a big pool, the water in the pool is crystal clear.There were two horses standing by the pool, but no one was there.Dotted around are houses surrounded by earthen walls, surrounded by lush trees. Fifty cavalry went deep into the city. At the turn of the road, in order to prevent surprise attacks, they changed into a single file.Zhao Xingde was ordered by King Zhu to walk in front of the team.The houses on both sides of the road became denser and denser, but no one was seen.Occasionally, a cold arrow flew from nowhere and hit a cavalryman. Other than that, the whole city was silent and seemed to be empty. Zhao Xingde walked around the city without a bridle, passed through several alleys, entered several courtyards, and walked through several streets, but he still didn't find anyone. Zhu Wangli simply ordered other people to follow Xingde, walk around the city at will, and search around.Dozens of war horses were galloping through the streets and alleys, but they only encountered two arrows, which were very weak, and fell to the ground on the way.Apparently, the arrows were fired from a distance, which indicated that there were still a few people in the city who were unwilling to surrender and continued to resist.Most of the residents of Ganzhou have left the territory they have operated for many years and fled to the outside of the city. "Go light some wolf smoke." Zhu Wangli ordered. Zhao Xingde knew that this was an order to himself, so he quickly got off his horse.This is an open space on the edge of the east gate wall.There are steps to climb the city on one side of the city, and there is a circular beacon tower on the city wall. Zhao Xingde took the cloth bag containing wolf dung from another soldier, and walked up the steps to the city wall.The city wall is about three feet high. When you climb up the city, you can see the wilderness outside Ganzhou city as far as the eye can see. "Bend down!" Zhu Wangli reminded loudly from below, but Xingde did not bend down.Now that he has completely detached himself, he has long ignored life and death, so he has nothing to fear.This beacon tower is so high that you have to climb a ladder to get up. Zhao Xingde came to the beacon tower, when he looked down, Zhu Wangli and the others looked very small.There is also a small two-story attic on the beacon tower. The lower floor is a small room that can accommodate two or three people. There is a big drum in the center of the room, and a ladder leading to the upper floor next to it.Zhao Xingde continued to climb to the second floor along the ladder.When he climbed halfway and stood on the ladder and looked towards the second floor, he couldn't help being stunned.There was a young woman lying prostrate on the floor of the second floor.Her face was slightly elongated, with a high nose bridge, and two deep-set black eyes showing horror.Zhao Xingde immediately saw that she was a mixed race of Uighur and Han.She was wearing a long, tight-sleeved dress with the placket slightly open.Obviously, she is a noblewoman. Zhao Xingde stepped forward and said to her in Chinese: "Don't be afraid, it won't hurt you." The woman stared at him without saying a word.He repeated it again in Uyghur.I don't know if I understood or didn't understand, the woman kept silent and looked at him with terrified eyes. Xingde put the wolf dung on the stage and lit it with a scythe.The smell of wolf dung wafted around.A thick black smoke rose straight up.Zhao Xingde lit another pile of wolf dung.In the end, he lit a total of five piles of wolf dung, and five puffs of black wolf smoke rose from the beacon tower, which was to tell other teams outside the city that their army had entered the city.After completing the task, Zhao Xingde said to the woman in Chinese again: "You don't have to worry, just stay here. I'll come back later and take you to a safe place. Oh, you are the merchant's daughter." This time, the woman seemed to understand and shook her head. "Your father was a soldier?" The woman shook her head slightly.Two ornaments worn around the woman's neck caught Xingde's attention. "Are you the daughter of the royal family?" The woman nodded silently, but still stared closely at Xingde's eyes without saying a word. "My lord..." "Khan's younger brother." The woman murmured back. "Khan!?" Hearing this, Xingde couldn't help but carefully looked at the down-and-out woman in front of him again.Since her father was the Khan's brother, she was of course the daughter of the royal family.Xingde asked the woman to stay on the beacon tower, and went up and down from the beacon tower to the city wall, and then came down from the city wall, and returned to Zhu Wangli.Seeing that he returned safely, Zhu Wangli said happily: "This time, you took the lead in entering the city, led a search team in the city, and took the risk of going up to the beacon tower to light a beacon. You made great contributions. I want to recommend you to the higher authorities, and I will also let you get a job as an official." In fact, Zhao Xingde is now Zhu Wangli's only old subordinate. Zhao Xingde and the others stayed put and waited for other troops to enter the city.Zhu Wangli asked the other five soldiers to find some wine to drink, and also told them to look in the nearby houses, maybe there were women hidden, it is unknown.Xingde sat on a rock, and looked at the beacon tower on the city wall from time to time.Xingde is thinking about how to rescue the troubled woman in the beacon tower.After thinking about it again and again, I still think it's better to explain this matter to Zhu Wangli, maybe relying on his strength can protect that woman.But Xingde thought again, what kind of character this captain who cared about him and was extremely brave in battle was, and he didn't know the details. After a while, three thousand soldiers and horses on standby outside the city came into the city.After they have found a place to camp, they have nothing else to do, and some are free time.In an empty city, groups of Qiu Ba are everywhere, wandering around the streets and alleys like hungry wolves.When he saw the woman's clothes, he wrapped them around his body, found the restaurant, picked up the wine jar and poured it into his mouth.The huge city of Ganzhou was messed up everywhere, and it was in chaos. After nightfall, people were tired and horses were exhausted, and the city gradually calmed down.From day to night, Zhao Xingde only left for a moment, and then he waited under the beacon tower without going anywhere.He was worried that some of the soldiers wandering around here wanted to board the beacon tower, so he waited here to block them. The moment Xingde left, he wanted to find a place to hide the young woman.He found a suitable place in a nearby residential house.In a large courtyard, he found a small room for storing grain, and in the room there was a cave that could accommodate two or three people.Xingde decided to hide the woman here, he moved some quilts from the inner bedroom, and everything was ready. Late at night, Xingde slipped out of a temple where the Death Squad camped.In the night sky of the northwest desert, the cold stars are lonely, and you can't see your fingers in all directions, and it is pitch black. Xingde didn't dare to waste time, and walked towards the city wall step by step.Climb up the city wall and see that there are still hundreds of bonfires camping outside the city, extending from the edge of the city wall to the vast wilderness.It seems that the main force of the Xixia Army has also arrived.Under the reflection of the fire, no movement of people and horses was seen, and the fire was still dark, without any life. Zhao Xingde climbed up to the upper level of the beacon tower.It was very dark inside, and the woman could not be seen clearly, but she was still lying on the floor vaguely.Zhao Xingde explained to her that he came here to take her to a safe place to hide and let her go with him.After the woman heard this, she still stayed where she was, motionless.Xingde patiently explained to her again and again that he was a loner at the end of the world who had put life and death aside for a long time. Seeing that she was alone and in danger, he wanted to help her.He had found her a very secluded hiding place in the city, and had no other intentions.Now there are stragglers everywhere in the city, all of them are like wolves and tigers.For a little girl like her to go out alone, the consequences would be disastrous.The woman seemed to be moved by Xingde's words, and she stood up slowly. She hesitated and took a step towards Xingde, keeping her eyes on Xingde, but remained silent. Xingde told her: "I'll go down first, and you will come down after me." After speaking, Xingde descended the ladder from the beacon tower to the city wall, and after a while, the woman also came down.At this time, Xingde's eyes were accustomed to the darkness of night, and he could see that the woman was much taller than he had imagined before. Zhao Xingde explained to the woman: "No matter what happens, don't talk, just follow me." They groped their way down the wall.The woman followed closely behind Xingde, crossed the open space, turned two alleys, and hid in the compound of the private house that Xingde had found during the day.The yard is a wide vestibule. Xingde looked behind, then rushed to the front of the woman, and walked into a main room facing north.From a side door in the main house, they came to the storage room where the grain was stored, and Xingde urged the woman to hide in the hole.The woman stood at the entrance of the cave, hesitated for a long time, and finally went down.There was no light in the cave, so Xingde handed all the steamed buns and green onions that he got for dinner to the woman, and told her: "It will be dawn soon, so don't come out. I will come to see you again." It is still a little hot under the sun during the day, but it is freezing cold at night.Xingde thought, although he had already brought some quilts, but this woman will not sleep with these things tonight, but there is no other way, at least let her hide here for a night first.Zhao Xingde sighed, turned around and left. Early the next morning, after Zhao Xingde got his own breakfast, he took a pot of water and sneaked into the hut where the Uighur princess was hiding while others were not paying attention.The room was empty, and Xingde was startled, thinking that she might have escaped.He went to the hole and looked down. It turned out that the woman was still hiding in the hole. Zhao Xingde called out softly and told her that water and food were brought.The woman didn't reply, and stretched out a hand from the hole, and took the things over.Xingde didn't dare to stay for long, so he turned and left. In the afternoon of the same day, Li Yuanhao led a unit of the main force of the Xixia Army into the city.This army was originally stationed outside the city, and most of the soldiers were Xixia people.As soon as they entered the city, they could see faces different from Han people everywhere in the city.Judging from the number of troops who had just entered the city, Zhao Xingde knew that the battle they participated in was just a small episode in this decisive battle.The upper reaches of the Heihe River in the west of the city and the middle reaches of the Danshan River passed by during the march are the main battlefields for the decisive battle.The Xixia army won complete victories in both places, and the defeated Uyghur troops that retreated from each battlefield merged into one group and fled westward. From the third day onwards, the original residents of Ganzhou City, headed by the Uyghurs, and other ethnic groups returned to the city one after another, and it is not known where they hid before.Of course, only a small number of people returned to the city, but it finally brought a little vitality to the city.Restaurants and vegetable markets have reopened one after another.There is still a shadow of a woman on the street that cannot be seen. Zhao Xingde tried every means to avoid people's eyes and eyes every day, and gave food and water to the Uighur women.On the night of the fifth day, Xingde brought the woman dinner as usual, but when he walked to the entrance of the cave, he found no one inside.This time, he thought, she must have escaped.Unexpectedly, after a while, the woman slipped in from the outside and stood at the door.Xingde hurriedly said: "It's dangerous to go out like this." "I have to go out every night to wash my face and find some water to drink. No one sees, don't worry." the woman replied. There was no longer the frightened and guarded look in her eyes.In the cold night sky, the waning moon was like a hook, and the watery moonlight reflected in from outside the door, covering her whole body.Although this woman has suffered a lot, she is still slim and graceful, without losing the demeanor of a princess. "Why are you bringing me food?" "I want to save your life." "Why did you save my life?" Zhao Xingde really didn't know how to answer this question.The moment he saw this woman on the Beacon Tower, he felt that saving this orphan girl was a mission given to him by God.But how this idea came about, even he himself didn't know why.Seeing that Xingde didn't speak, the woman asked again: "Thank you for saving your life, but it's so annoying to always hide in this hole. How long will you have to hide before you can get out?" There was a bit of complaint in the woman's tone.It seems that this is a temper developed from being bossy since childhood, and he doesn't care about his morals.It might feel better to let her speak out.Thinking of this, Xingde replied: "There are more and more Uighurs in the city, but I haven't seen any women coming back, but they will always come back. After they return to the city, you can go out from here. At that time, you can It’s okay to do it yourself.” "I am the daughter of the royal family. If I catch it, I will kill it." "You have the right to hide your identity for now, and then look for opportunities to escape from the city. Go westward and catch up with your people." Saying this, even Xingde himself felt unreliable.Since he can see her royal status at a glance, can he hide it from others? Until this evening, it was the first time that Zhao Xingde had such a heart-to-heart conversation with this woman.Under the moonlight, her beautiful eyes are shining, her gaze shines brightly, and her speech and behavior are just like a jade tree facing the wind.I don't know if it's because of her beauty or because of her coquettishness, Xingde has never had the courage to look at her, but her voice and smile are engraved in Xingde's memory along with the beauty of this beautiful day. On the seventh day after entering Ganzhou City, Zhu Wangli called Zhao Xingde to his residence.Zhu Wangli lived in a private house with a small courtyard where three jujube trees were planted.As soon as he met Zhu Wangli, he said to Xingde: "You told me that you wanted to learn Xixia Wen, and this time you have got your wish, and you can go to Xingqing tomorrow. I am a person who keeps my promise, and I will honor what I said, so you should believe it now. But You have to keep your word, and you must come back after learning." Then he told Xingde that an army would go to Xingqing tomorrow, and he could go with them. "Recently, my team has added a lot of people. After you come back, I will promote you as my counselor." After this decisive battle, Li Yuanhao rewarded him for his meritorious deeds. On the other hand, he also considered that King Zhu's Ministry of Rites had sacrificed too much in the battle, so he added a lot of people to him. For Zhao Xingde, this mission is of course a beautiful mission that he has wanted for a long time, but thinking that he will be leaving tomorrow, he can't help but feel very embarrassed about the situation of the hidden Uighur woman.So he said to Zhu Wangli: "I am grateful for your recommendation. My lord's kindness, I will try my best to repay the favor of Xingde when I return from my studies. It's just that this battle is extremely difficult, Xingde is physically and mentally exhausted, and he is born with a weak body. It will be difficult to make the trip tomorrow. May I beg your lord to give me some grace..." "I said to go tomorrow, and I have to go tomorrow. This is an order!" Before Zhao Xingde finished speaking, Zhu Wangli roared loudly. Xingde was helpless, and he also knew that the captain had no malice towards him, so he reluctantly obeyed. At night, Xingde came to the hut where the Uighur woman was hiding.He explained to her that he was leaving tomorrow, but he would find another reliable person to continue to take care of her, so that she should not worry.He has already considered that before leaving tomorrow, he will make this matter clear to Zhu Wangli, and ask Zhu Wangli to protect this woman. After listening to Xingde's words, the woman came out of the cave and stood at the door with a timid look on her face. "I can't believe anyone but you. Please don't go, will you?" she said eagerly.Xingde quickly explained: "It's really involuntary, it's helpless." As soon as Xingde finished speaking, the woman bent her knees and knelt down on the ground, two lines of tears streaming down her cheeks.She sobbed and asked: "Do you know why I stayed on the beacon tower alone?" Zhao Xingde felt strange about this matter before, and asked about it once or twice, but he never got an answer.Now, she took the initiative to repeat the old story, it seems that she wanted to tell him the clue. "At that time, my father had already led the defenders out of the city to fight. When the people saw that no one was guarding the city, they also fled one after another. The servants at home urged me to leave quickly. But I had an appointment with my betrothed lord, He has gone out with my father, and if he survives the catastrophe, he will definitely come back to the city to pick me up. I was worried that he would not find anyone when I left, so I ignored my family’s persuasion and desperately stayed. I hid alone. On the beacon tower, I was looking forward to my husband coming back to pick me up. Unexpectedly, I waited until the afternoon, but I still haven’t seen his shadow. I thought to myself, he must have been killed. When you are secretly mourning, you climbed upstairs I was startled and scared at the time, but seeing that you had no intention of hurting me, I changed my mind and thought, this is probably God's will, my lord's soul is attached to you, and you have come back to pick me up. That's the way it is , now how can you say that you will leave tomorrow?" When she finished speaking, she was already sobbing, and the string of beads around her neck shone and twinkled with the shaking of her shoulders under the bleak moonlight. Zhao Xingde walked to the side of the woman, bent down, and stretched out his hands to help her up.The woman stood up slowly, staring straight at Xingde.They were so close, Xingde felt a woman's unique breath that he had never experienced before attacking him. She is in her arms... After calming down again, Xingde felt guilty from the bottom of his heart, and felt a dull pain in his heart.When he turned his head and was about to leave the house, the woman fell on the ground, holding his feet tightly with both hands.Seeing this, Xingde hurriedly argued: "Wanwang forgive me for being confused for a moment and doing such an abrupt thing. I really don't mean any malice, and I have admired him for a long time." "I know, you have feelings of admiration for me, because you are my husband's substitute." The woman replied calmly. Zhao Xingde repeated as if talking to himself: "Yes, I have admiration for you, because I am another person's substitute. This is God's will. If it weren't for this, why did I come to this vast desert from the rich and gentle town full of flowers? " Zhao Xingde really thought so at this moment.Deep in his heart, he truly felt the sorrow of this Uighur woman. "Are you still leaving?" "The military order is like a mountain, I have to go." "Will you come back?" "Within a year, I will definitely come back." "In this case, I will wait here for your return. You have said that you must come back, can you swear?" Finally, the woman asked tearfully.Xingde nodded, but was so choked up that he couldn't speak.He turned and strode out of the house.It was only after he got out that he felt weak all over, as if his feet were stepping on cotton piles. The next morning, Zhao Xingde came to Zhu Wangli's residence.Zhu Wangli thought that Xingde was here to say goodbye, so he said to Xingde: "We are destined to die together, come back soon. We will fight a big battle together, and we will die in the end. If we win, don't forget about erecting a monument." Zhu Wangli jokingly said to Zhao Xingde, it sounded as if he was not satisfied with the intensity of this decisive battle. "Here comes Xingde, one is to bid farewell to the lord, and the other is to ask the lord for one thing, and implore the lord to help him." Zhao Xingde didn't have time to think carefully, so he simply said it directly.The expression on Xingde's face at this time made people feel that the matter was of great importance and imminent. "What's the matter, just say it straight." Zhu Wangli said seriously. "There is a Uighur royal daughter who is hiding in a private house, and I want to ask my lord to protect it with all my strength." "woman?" Zhu Wangli showed a surprised expression, his eyes sparkled.He went on to ask: "Where is the woman?" "She is not an ordinary woman, she is the daughter of the royal family, with golden branches and jade leaves." "What's different about the daughter of the royal family? Take me to see her earlier." Zhu Wangli stood up after speaking.Zhao Xingde quickly changed his tone and continued: "She is not an ordinary woman. She also has the same Han Chinese ancestry as us and can speak Chinese." "A woman is a woman, what else can a woman do?" Hearing him say such words, Zhao Xingde felt regretful.He straightened his face and said grimly: "Your Excellency, you must not have unreasonable thoughts in your heart. Once you have an affair with that woman, you will definitely die!" "Death is certain?" Zhu Wangli obviously didn't believe Zhao Xingde's words. "Why do you have to die?" "Your Excellency has been in the Western Regions for a long time. Haven't you heard that doing such things with Uighur women will damage your lifespan?" "It's nothing special to die a few days earlier." "However, this method of death is not as pleasant as dying on the battlefield. In the end, the essence is exhausted, the body becomes ossified, and you die with atrophy." Zhu Wangli stopped talking, with a look of doubt on his face. "According to you, it's better not to see that Uighur woman?" After a while, he changed his words and said: "But let's meet, it's good to see you." Zhao Xingde took Zhu Wangli to the hut where the Uighur woman was hiding.The woman heard the footsteps and knew that Xingde had brought someone in, so she hurried out of the cave.As soon as Zhu Wangli entered the door, he saw the Uighur woman standing alone in the room. His eyes were fixed on her, and he kept muttering to himself: "It's really not an ordinary woman." "Is this person going to protect me from now on?" the woman suddenly asked.After hearing this, Zhu Wangli became hesitant. He took two steps back, turned around and walked out the door.Zhao Xingde hurriedly chased him out. "I can't do anything about this kind of woman. I can only find a Uighur in the city to bring her something to eat every day." Zhu Wangli said reluctantly.Then he asked again: "Why did you save such a woman?" "I didn't think much about it." Zhao Xingde replied. "In this way, you don't know yourself. This kind of woman... well, it's rare to serve her. I can tell it at a glance. She was born in a wealthy family, but she was spoiled since she was a child. She wants to do whatever she wants, and she has a natural bad temper. It's a woman's body, but it doesn't have any femininity. Ordinary women, are you afraid that you won't be able to find it anywhere?" What Zhu Wangli said was somewhat reasonable, it seemed that it was a feeling from the heart, not a false statement in response to the situation.Zhao Xingde thought, it seemed hopeless to ask him for help.But here and now, there is no better way than to ask him, Xingde has no choice but to say: "This girl is indeed spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, so there are some annoying things. It's just a common saying that 'saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda', not to mention that she is a little girl who has no relatives in this turbulent Ganzhou city. If she is allowed to go away alone, the consequences will be self-evident. Xingde will travel far away tomorrow, without any worries, but for this matter, I still have to take the liberty to ask my lord, Lord Wanwang forgive me, and take care of this poor little girl from now on." Zhu Wangli nodded his head, agreeing.He went back to his residence and sent his subordinates to find five Uighur old men in the city. He picked the one he liked and let the rest go back. "From today onwards, every day in the future, you will send food to a woman. If you tell others about this matter, no matter where you hide, I can use your head as a question. Do you understand?" ?” Zhu Wangli stared at the old man firmly and said.The old man was chanting words, as if a disaster was coming, and he chanted scriptures to pray for the blessing of the gods.Finally he finally agreed.Xingde took him to the hut where the woman was hiding, and he recognized the way.When he got to the house, Xingde asked the old man to swear an oath to this matter, promising not to mention it outside in the future. After seeing off the old man, Zhao Xingde turned around to bid farewell to the woman.The woman's eyes were red and swollen, she must have been secretly sad and shed a lot of tears.She said to Xingde: "It's a long way to go, I hope you will take good care of it. I will definitely come back in a year. Don't disappoint my heart of waiting." "I went here because I thought about it but longed for it. The day I complete my studies is the time to return." The woman took off the two strings of beads she was wearing around her neck, and handed them to Xingde silently. Xingde took the gift before leaving, shook the woman's hand tightly, turned around and strode out cabin.The cold feeling on the woman's slender hands still remained in Xingde's hands.When Xingde walked out of the courtyard, he happened to see the Uighur old man who had just been found, walking slowly with two buckets filled with water.Seeing that it was a virtue, the old man hurriedly said: "No one saw me, it doesn't matter." Zhao Xingde left the city at noon, a troop of more than 200 people was preparing to go out outside the city, he explained his purpose to the young captain.Zhu Wangli may have taken care of him in advance, and the captain very politely let him join the team. It was already June of the sixth year of Tiansheng.