Chapter 305 Blood Tu Pingxing Mansion

Yunshang sighed, got off the horse, and went straight to the inner courtyard of Hesheng Inn.

The Yulin Guard behind her took her reins and disappeared into the darkness. Kong Jie also got off the horse, but there was nothing to do. He just looked up at Yunshang's back and walked into the Lian Zhun's room upstairs.

There are still lights in the room. The enchanting and beautiful Mr. Lian sat quietly at the table, holding a vermilion pen and adjusting a box of rouge attentively.

I really can't see that this is one of the behind-the-scenes manipulators of Pingxing Mansion tonight, the guy who turned Pingxing Mansion upside down.

Lian Zhun saw Yunshang coming in, with a gentle smile on his face, and nodded to her and said, "Little beauty Yunshang, come on, is it suitable to look at my newly researched rouge with your face?"

Yunshang couldn't laugh or cry, but went to the table and sat opposite him: "What on earth are you looking for me for?"

"What's the matter? Isn't that what it is?" Lian Zhun looked at her in surprise, "I worked hard for you, baked flowers, mixed colors, and specially brought new silkworm silk from Huzhou for you. I soaked it in the flower juice of purple jasmine for three days. It was so easy to make such a box of rouge. Is there anything more important than this?"

Yunshang was stuffed and said for a long time, "You deserve this. How can I use it? Why don't you keep it!"

"Ai--" Lian Zhun smiled softly, "This rouge is specially adjusted for you. How is it suitable for others? Your skin color is shiny, like a good new porcelain white jade, but in the end, it is still missing a trace of blood. It looks like the beauty in the painting, lacking some real feelings... But those rouge gouache in the world are not worthy of you. If the painting is too red, it will reduce your breathability. So I specially adjusted this faint Xiangfei color for you. If you dye it a little, it will definitely play the role of the finishing touch. You can fascinate who you want to fascinate!"

Why does she think his words are so strange? Yunshang smiled bitterly and wanted to refuse, but Lian Zhun had stood up in front of her, raised her jaw with his hand, and looked down at her face very professionally: "Well, fortunately, I haven't slept all night, and I don't feel a little rough. What a good piece of skin!"

Yunshang smiled and said, "Although my skin is good, is it comparable to your gorgeous light?" She also raised her eyes and looked around Lian Zhun's face.

But in this way, the two people are in a face-to-face state, with their eyes facing each other, breathing and hearing each other. For a moment, there was a trace of ambiguity and embarrassment between the two.

Lian Zhun suddenly smiled and said, "Yunshang little beauty, just sit here and don't move. Let me serve you with makeup and try on the new rouge!"

Yunshang nodded, leaned back on the chair, and gently closed her eyes.

This night, she had a thrilling adventure and planning to calculate. Her heart was already exhausted. When she closed her eyes, she felt tired and no longer wanted to open it. In the haze, she only felt that Lian Zhun had removed the hairpin for her, spread her long hair, took some silk cotton, dipped it in water and milk, and wiped her face several times, as if helping her. Clean the face.

Those slender and stable "jade hands" are drawing circles on her face, massaging and relaxing her skin.

She only felt lazy and extremely comfortable. The night's nervous and frightened mood swept away. Even the upcoming battle to defend the city seemed far away and no longer so compelling. At the moment before she was addicted to sleeping in the countryside, she confusedly asked what was hidden in the bottom of her heart. Question: "Lian Zhun... Why did you help me?"

The fingers that stayed on her face paused, and Lian Zhun looked at her carefully: the long black eyelashes hung steadily, against the beautiful face of white porcelain. She breathed evenly, and her breath was as if she was orchid. She was obviously asleep.

Lian Zhun sighed gently and whispered, "Little thing, why do you think so much? ...It must be sad to see so much blood tonight, right?"

The kitten that had been curled up in her arms had just been forced by Lu Shen's momentum to run out at all. At this time, she was as relaxed as the owner of the couch. She jumped out of her arms and trembled her hair for a day, and her whole body was refreshed. Lian Zhun frowned and looked at it. He looked back at him with a pair of green eyes, raised his front paws and scratched his ears, and swaggered to pee.

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Whether it is excitement, anxiety, or even indifference; the expected peace battle with the "barefoot army" has finally come!

At noon the next day, news came from the south that the "barefoot army" had set out from Fengcheng and entered Pingxing. It was still half an hour away from them.

From last night to now, the gate of Pingxingfu has been tightly closed, and the most lively "entering the sage gate" has been heavily guarded and full of knives and guns.

This is the southernmost part of Pingxing Prefecture, and it is also the first place to see the enemy.

Yunshang rode behind Lu Shen and toured the city wall together.

She slept until the sun, and her spirit has been well restored. Now it can also be called high fighting spirit; but Lu Shen in front of her has not slept all night and is busy. Now she looks like she is not tired at all.

Yes, it's just a deep worry.

Yunshang now finally knows why the number of officers and soldiers are superior, and they are on the side of defending the city; but whether it is the governor Feng Ziliang or the general of the Zhennan Army, they almost do not hesitate to choose to escape: Is the soldier of this official really a soldier?

The standing team is loose, and the officer's order is not good; the armor is not neat, and there is no fighting spirit. Is this the Zhennan Army?

It seems that the soldiers killed last night are much better than them.

Zhu Fugui saw Yunshang's doubts and quietly explained to her: "The Zhennan Army is a military family, and they usually have to farm, so the training time is less... However, the personal guard of each general is still very strong."

"It's very strong," Yunshang curled his lips. "Everyone is good at killing, arson and extortion."

Zhu Fugui's face turned red, "Brothers, there's nothing we can do. Everyone has to support their families, right? The monthly pay given by the court is in the hands of the brothers. How many are left?

Yunshang knew that he was talking about the corruption of Wenchen, but when he thought about the monthly deduction, why didn't the generals of the Southern Army in their town have a share? It's also a little funny in my heart.

But now is not the time to say this. Lu Shen stepped on the wall in front of him and was training the soldiers and boosting their morale. I have to admit that the people who have been leading the soldiers for a long time have a kind of infection. In a few words, most of the soldiers are refreshed, which is completely different from the depressed situation just now.

"Are those city-keeping cannons placed in accordance with the regulations?" Yun Shang asked again. She saw that Lu Shen on the wall was commanding the soldiers to retreat the fort.

"Yes." Zhu Fugui was ashamed, "Soldiers don't usually use this thing. I don't know if they can't put it too far forward. It's too easy to attract the other party's artillery attack."

"I haven't used it?!" Yunshang became more and more stunned, "Don't you have gunners in your southern army?"

"Of course there are gunners. But this thing is expensive, and it is usually put in the warehouse. If you want to take it out and see it, you have to pay it to the civil servants. Naturally, no one of our brothers is going to make that boring.

"I haven't used it at ordinary times. What's the use of taking it out now?" Yunshang's eyebrows have been tightly twisted together.

"It's not only artillery, but also those birds..." Zhu Fugui simply said, "I haven't practiced much at ordinary times. If it hadn't been for Major General Lu and the magistrate and moving things out of the warehouse together, we wouldn't have known that there were so many good guys; and I heard that... there are a lot of artillery and birds in Fengcheng..."

Yunshang is about to collapse. There are these good things in the warehouse, but they can't be used. If they don't use them, just put them in the warehouse and wait to be given to others for free! ... Now I can only pray that the barefoot army also lacks technical talents to use these things; it's the same, if you have it, you can only watch it!

Following Zhu Fugui and some Zhennan army generals to the head of the city, he looked up and saw Lu Shen checking the masonry bows used to guard the city.

Seeing them coming, there was no trace of joy on Lu Shen's tense face: "It's just that the women's wall in the city can't be repaired. Why is there no row of fork wood mentioned before?"

He was extremely rude to say this, but Zhu Fugui was just Weiwei, sweating like rain. "The soldiers mostly want to escape. In this half day, they can gather these soldiers. The generals have tried their best. The fortifications of guarding the city really have no time..."

Fork wood is a defensive weapon installed on the wall. Like a fence, it is five or six feet higher than the female wall. If the enemy builds a ladder, a building, and comes to attack, then even if it is on the female wall, it will be separated by a fork. At this time, as long as you prepare a knife, axe and a long gunman here, it is almost a one-sided slaughter.

Such important fortifications, "there is no time" to arrange! It can be seen that soldiers, there is really no battle**.

Yunshang thought for a moment and asked, "Now the silver money bank in the city can still be exchanged for silver?"

"Wuyou Gong's main cash? I'm afraid it will be difficult." Zhu Fugui didn't understand why Yunshang suddenly asked this question and looked at her doubtfully. "But there is still some money on my side. How much does Princess Wuyou need to use? Just open your mouth."

"I don't need your money," Yunshang thought for a moment and said, "Is there any silver in Pingxing's silver treasury? Move it all out! Just put it on the surface. Whoever shoots ten arrows today will be rewarded with one taels of silver; if the tip of the knife is stained with blood, it will be rewarded with two taels of silver; if you get the thief's head, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!"

"Ah?!" Zhu Fugui's mouth was wide open. He didn't understand why Yunshang didn't intend to treason. Why did he dare to use the money in the treasury? And... the reward amount was too large, right? Ordinary soldiers are two taels of silver in January. After the deduction, it is actually less than a quarter. That's it. It often takes half a year to send it down... Now Yunshang says that as long as you kill a barefoot army, it will be more than a year's pay!

However, he is also cruel. As long as he can win, what kind of money does he care about? If you can't win... It's not too late to roll up the silver and escape!

Lu Shen heard Yunshang say this and frowned at her, but he didn't stop her.

Several people looked around along the city wall. During this period, they quickly arranged for soldiers to grab some equipment to defend the city and make the preparations as fully as possible.

"It's coming, it's coming!" The soldier in charge of the lookout suddenly shouted, "In the south! Barefoot army!"

Several people also quickly turned to look south, but saw that on the horizon, people and horses hissed, smoke and dust were rolling, and tens of thousands of people.