To Rule in a Turbulent World

Chapter 120 Volume 3 Man Jianghong

"Fifty carts of books..." Another person tremblingly said, with a tear in his voice: "Are all the books collected by Guozixue?"

"The teachers are all dead." Zhang Wenhan said numbly, "Master Jiang was hacked to death in the car by barbarians..."

"God—"

Another person couldn't help crying when he heard this.

"Don't cry!" Zhao Chao's voice came from behind: "Shut up! Don't disturb the Tartars!"

You Miao's nose was sour, tears were frightened back again, she quickly looked up and saw the Tatars escorting the prisoners of war looking back, and hurriedly signaled the people around to keep silent.If they were caught talking, there might be trouble.

"Ziqian." Zhao Chao said, "Can you hear me?"

You Miao whispered: "I heard it."

More than 20 people were divided into two teams, and they walked forward in the snow with a deep foot and a shallow foot.Zhao Chao moved the rope, and said: "The ones in front walk slowly!"

The speed of the team slowed down, You Miao fell back slightly, and got closer to Zhao Chao, and they could hear each other's voices.

Zhao Chao: "Don't look back, I'll ask you a question and you answer it."

You Miao: "Did you let someone take me out of the capital?"

Zhao Chao: "Yes. You were told to run south, why did you go to Jiangjunling again?"

You Miao: "The outside of Suzaku's gate was blocked by the enemy, I didn't make it!"

Zhao Chao: "Did you see the Imperial Forest Army when you ran away?"

You Miao: "No... no! No! I saw it! It's just south of Jiangjun Ridge!" You Miao immediately remembered that when he escaped from the north gate, the team of Apocalypse Army he saw outside the valley was vaguely the same Royal Army.

Zhao Chao gasped, and said in a trembling voice, "That's bad. Did that team escape?"

You Miao said: "I didn't look carefully, maybe they were all killed."

Zhao Chao staggered and fell to the ground, causing confusion in the surrounding area. The Tartar soldiers who led the team found out immediately, came over with whips, and whipped all these people without any explanation. However, these young people were either generals or scholars. It was so stubborn that they all kept silent.

Zhao Chao stopped talking since then, and the Tatars escorted them farther and farther north of the Yellow River. You Miao knew that this was probably to escort them all back to the north of the Great Wall.Only find a way to escape on the road.

It was getting dark, and the wilderness was full of people, with depressing cries.You Miao was exhausted and sat down among the prisoners of war.The Tartar army rested for a while, and everyone sat together to resist the cold wind with their bodies.

"Zhao Chao... Zhao Chao!" You Miao frowned.Zhao Chao sat far away with a numb expression. At this time, he glanced at You Miao, and said something to the people around him, motioning them to pass it over and tell You Miao.

There was another commotion among the scholars, You Miao quickly looked up, and someone beside him said to him: "The original words passed down by His Highness the Third Highness: My brother and father may both be dead."

With a buzzing sound in You Miao's mind, she finally understood why Zhao Chao had such a reaction.In this way, what I saw at the foot of General Ridge that day was most likely the guards of the Crown Prince and Emperor Tianqi.No, to be precise, it was the car of the emperor and the overlord.But even if it is, it is not necessarily dead, but may be arrested.

When You Miao was thinking, he heard another sentence from the side:

"Li Yan is treasonous."

There were only four words, but they exploded in You Miao's ears like thunder.The faces of the scholars were full of grief, but You Miao said: "Don't say that! Not necessarily!"

The Tatar soldiers came over, whipped the man at the end of the line, threw him a piece of cake, and left again.

You Miao recognized him and whispered, "Boy!"

That person was You Miao's old friend, Qin Shaonan, the son of the Minister of Rites. He was pumped bloody, but he waved his hands again and again, gasping for breath. The Tatars left. Qin Shaonan took a bite of the cake with an expression Embarrassed.Then hand it to Zhao Chao beside him.

Zhao Chao also took a bite and handed it to the other person on the left.

"I don't eat the food that comes from you!" The man said angrily, "I want to eat you."

"Take a bite!" Zhao Chao said, "You can live well, and you can take revenge only if you live!"

The young civil servant sighed and took a bite of the cake.

"Otherwise, why didn't he come back?" Someone asked again.

Several people gathered in front of the fire, one by one, with their hands bound by ropes. When the north wind blew, almost all the Tatar soldiers in front entered the tent, leaving two people patrolling.They were downwind, and although they were all shivering from the cold, they were able to talk a few words at last.

You Miao replied: "If he wanted to escape, he would have already escaped. There is no need to betray the country and seek glory."

Zhao Chao looked at the fire, hummed, and distinguished among the people: "The father and son of the Li family are already under one person and above ten thousand people, even if they voted for Tatars, it is impossible to allow him to be a higher official, unless he is appointed as an official. , When..." When You Miao said this, she consciously kept quiet, after all, Zhao Chao was still there, so she couldn't say such outrageous things.

And You Miao felt that although Li Yan and them had different thoughts and actions, a person who had the courage to go out of the city alone to negotiate with the enemy's thousands of horses would not give in when he was intimidated.

Xiang Shi died in the first place, but who knows the true or false of his life?

The sky was full of stars, and the wind was blowing on the face and body like knives. The starry sky in winter was so brilliant that it was unreal, and there were a few howling wolves faintly in the distance, which was creepy to hear.

You Miao was cold and hungry, and the discomfort caused by exhaustion made him groggy and developed a low-grade fever.In the cold, his dreams were fragmented, at one moment he was Li Zhifeng, and at another moment he was the gold and iron horse of the capital.He didn't know where the Tartars were taking them, and when he woke up he was dragged forward like a dog, and at night he stopped, a group of people urinating in their crotches, sitting on the frozen snow, curled up with each other for warmth .

"Where are they taking us?" a young man asked.

"Da'an." A middle-aged official with his hands bound and disheveled hair answered him: "I walked this road, and after crossing Languan, I will be Da'an. I still have to walk for half a month."

You Miao recognized the man, knew that his surname was Lin, he was an upright official servant, and asked, "What will happen when you arrive in Da'an?"

Lin Shilang sighed, and another young man whispered, "It's useless for the Tartars to kill us. I guess they'll lock us up and write a letter asking our family members to pay for our ransom."

"But everyone in my family is dead." Qin Shaonan said: "They can't ask for a ransom."

You Miao comforted: "Not necessarily, maybe he's still alive."

Qin Shaonan said: "I saw my father die with my own eyes."

The rest are silent.

Lin Shilang said: "Everyone, don't worry about it. It's useless for the Tartars to occupy the capital. They all live as nomads. They only want money, and they won't kill us. For the rest of the day, just take one step at a time."

"If Your Majesty is gone..." Another person asked, "What should I do?"

Everyone didn't dare to speak. Looking at Zhao Chao, Zhao Chao was always silent all the way, almost sinister. Now he opened his mouth and asked: "There are still people in Jiangnan, you are the six states in Jiangnan, Jiaozhi Liyang Are the troops in these places dead? No matter how powerful the Tartars are, they would not dare to cross the Yangtze River rashly."

As soon as Zhao Chao opened his mouth, several people felt relieved.

Lin Shilang asked: "Your Highness, has anyone from the Tian family escaped from the capital?"