Chapter 329: A Man's Way

At this time, the wind eagle iron cavalry is mostly covered with a bright silver armor, wearing armor and sabers into the conference hall, holding a military spy report in his hand, Guan Ju accompanied the Tai Ning squatting at the door, this little princess of Shuyue obviously cried, and the red in front of her eyes was very distressing. Guan Ju saw Meng Yu coming, looked up at the young prince at the end of the long table, Chu Xuanzhao's state was not very good, and he kept looking down at the topographic map of Shuyue, and the tiredness in his eyes could not be hidden.

The man slowly walked up to Chu Xianzhao and sat down, put the spy report on the table and asked, "How is the empress?"

"Maybe I'm too tired, a little sad and tired, maybe it's good to get some sleep...... My head hurts to death, too. Chu Xianzhao rubbed his sore forehead, his purple pupils were a little dimmer than before, Meng Yu sat next to him and said softly: "His Majesty the Emperor was like this in the past, no matter whether he won or lost a war, he always sat alone and looked at the map, neither happy nor sad, sometimes I went to greet him for a few words before talking to me." ”

Chu Xianzhao put his fist against his chin, raised his head and asked blankly, "I don't know, I'm so tired now...... I...... I can't even see the end of the war, Jingnan City, Anxi City, Snake Eye Mountain, Pingge Bay...... Danyang City, when will I be able to return to Lin'an City? If we take Lijing City, will it really be beneficial to the overall situation of Yinguo, or will there be more wars?"

Meng Yu didn't give the answer he wanted, because he didn't have the answer in his own heart:" It's normal for you to be homesick, when the last general conquered the Northern Barbarians, there was not a day when I didn't want to go back to Lin'an City, I miss those two brothers, Ye Zang and Bai Yun, Baiyun and I are different, I am poor, but this fat man is a child of a serious family, the old father is Bai Zhengkang, who was one of the wealthy businessmen in Lin'an, this guy and I are also the disciples of General Hua Mingge, in the early years, I didn't have the courage I have now, I got rid of a dead fat man who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and often stole his mouth to cause himself to be punished by the teacher......"

Chu Xianzhao quietly listened to the stories that Meng Yu told him, he had always liked to listen to others tell him stories, until he now had his own stories.

"I'm different from this fat man, I started in the infantry battalion instead of the cavalry battalion, but he was the first of me and Ye Zang to enter the cavalry battalion, and maybe that's how he completely changed him. This fat man gradually became ruthless from the timid and cowardly at the beginning, and he was even more ruthless to the enemy, not to mention that he was full of fat, but it was all real muscles, I had seen him when he was about to cut his throat with a knife against the throat of a Yanfu soldier, and finally he pulled out his hand and slapped him in the face, and his head was crooked...... Bai Yun, you give him 3,000 soldiers and horses to guard a certain place, whether the other party is 5,000 or 8,000 people, that guy can still defend it for you, and there are not even 200 people left on the opposite side, has His Majesty the Emperor told you the story of General Bai Yun's thousand horsemen beheading the white robe?"

Chu Xianzhao nodded, of course he knew that General Baiyun's thousand horsemen of the Zhenyin Kingdom had slashed the white robe, and the Xilin Kingdom had not yet been destroyed at that time.

The biggest opponent of the Yin country is still Yan Fu, when the white cloud guarding the Yunan Pass was bombarded by Yan Fu's gang of turtle grandsons with artillery against the city gate, Yan Fu's famous white-robed general Chen Tansheng shouted outside the pass, threatening to fight to the death with the white cloud guarding the Yunan Pass, Bai Yun was annoyed by him at the time, the city wall of the Yunan Pass was full of cannonballs of the Yan Xun people, and then the city wall collapsed soon after such a bombardment, General Bai Yun personally put on his armor and took the battle axe and said that he wanted to cut off the bastard's head, and then it was the famous thousand horsemen who shook the Yin country to cut off the white robe.

Meng Yu looked at Chu Xianzhao and said with emotion: "That guy in Baiyun actually broke through the artillery attack range of the Yanyu people with a thousand cavalry, and a thousand cavalry attacked straight down like a bamboo, if it is compared to the art of war or force, I am above Baiyun, but this trick of surprise attack, I am far inferior to him, all of you underestimate Bai Yun, he is actually a man who can be equal to me, in the face of hundreds of artillery companies, even I Meng Yu dare not say that I can retreat...... But Bai Yun did it, he not only managed to let himself cut off Chen Tansheng's head alive, but also let his subordinate soldiers survive, and not a single one of the thousand cavalry died under the artillery! This is something that Meng Yu could not do...... It's the ultimate in courage and cunning!"

Chu Xianzhao nodded, and Meng Yu continued to sigh: "You all say that I Meng Yu is the head of the four famous generals, but there are more dead soldiers under me than the three of them combined, even your father and emperor have complained to me, saying that the iron cavalry can't withstand my Meng Yu's toss, and then tossed and tossed out the Wind Eagle Iron Cavalry, the army of the town and country, their armor is excellent, and the horses are so strong that the countries of the Northern Regions can be terrified, and under such excellent armaments, the casualties of the soldiers are naturally greatly reduced." ”

Meng Yu laughed at himself: " In fact, I don't hide it from the three princes, at the beginning when Emperor Yinhuang planned to let me serve as the commander of the Wind Eagle Iron Cavalry, I subconsciously recommended Bai Yun to be, I think such a strong and expensive army should be handed over to a man who can keep the soldiers alive to be in charge, and I think Bai Yun has a deeper sense of the Yinguo Iron Cavalry than me, when I mentioned this request to Bai Yun, the guy patted his stomach twice and smiled and said to me, I will only serve me Meng Yu in this life, how embarrassed is he to take the official position given to me by His Majesty the Emperor, and later he also served as the head of the first generation of iron horses, and personally trained them。 ”

Meng Yu patted his knee, pointed to the defense line behind Danyang City until Li Jingcheng City and said: "Now this cavalry is only more than 10,000 under my Meng Yu, if he knows that I squandered the life of the cavalry like this, he will have to point at my nose and scold for a night." Now the topography of Shuyue is different from that of Yanlin in the west, this is our disadvantage, but it may also be an advantage, if you want to attack Lijing City, these forces are far from enough, Shantai Ninghua is not as good as Chai Long, I dare to say that there are still many hidden troops and master masters behind this that we have not seen have not appeared, he can obviously send troops to aid Danyang City, but he is abandoned like chicken ribs, it is obvious that he wants to use the strength of Danyang City to carry out a large wave of attrition on us, and they may not be sure to defeat the terrain outside Danyang City

The charge of our cavalry, so he wanted to bring the battlefield to the city of Lijing. ”

Chu Xianzhao frowned: "How mad is he to treat the imperial city of Shuyue as a battlefield?"

Meng Yu continued: "Tianxian City has the strongest Liuyun spearmen in Shuyue, and Tianxian City is also one of the most important cities in Shuyue, there are two military important places in Shuyue Zejian and Liyao, Zejian cultivates the best spearmen in Shuyue, and there are 8,000 Shuyue foot soldiers, this city is only five towns away from Lijing City, and it is also the only supply line in Lijing City, no matter how difficult it is to fight in Lijing City, it is not as difficult to fight as Anxi City, but the terrain makes it difficult for our cavalry to launch a large-scale charge, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack. I was asked when the war would end, and I could only say that the war would never end, and people had been fighting since the moment they left their mother's womb, but if we wanted to end the war with Tantai Ninghua, we could only die in Tianxian City first. In this form, the Wind Eagle Iron Cavalry shifted the battlefield to Tianxian City, and replaced it with cavalry to attack Tianxian City instead of Li Jingcheng, cutting off their supply lines, so as to turn Li Jingcheng into a turtle in an urn, and let us pinch it. Even if there are all kinds of supernatural power masters in Shantai Ninghua to help, we are not afraid at all, you and the Empress of Shuyue are pregnant with Wang Xi, plus the three of us suppress the big array, the odds of winning in this way are much greater, and ......"

Meng Yu, who learned that Emperor Yin was secretly studying Iron Shura, smiled mysteriously: "Your Majesty will invest in the strongest cavalry army in the history of the Yin Kingdom, and when this army descends on the battlefield, this war will have been won." ”

"The strongest cavalry army in the history of the Yin Kingdom?How come I have never heard of such a thing, General Meng, are you hiding something from our father and the emperor?" Meng Yu has always spoken without words, he said that there is the strongest cavalry army Chu Xianzhao also believes, Meng Yu waved his hand: "This is a secret between me and Your Majesty, when the time comes, I will know it, and I will definitely be shocked by this army." ”

Hearing this unexpected joy, Chu Xuanzhao's face softened a lot, and he smiled a little and said: "Of course this is good, I can even imagine that if we fight with Tantai Ninghua, the tragedy of the war will definitely be on the same level as that of Sabbath City, and I and the girl swordsman outside the door will also participate in the war, hoping to reduce the pressure on the soldiers." ”

"Hey, hey, I didn't say to help you!" The girl outside the door waved her fist dissatisfiedly, Chu Xianzhao smiled, looked down at the map on the table again, and was silent.

Meng Yu looked at the young prince in front of him with some relief, and suddenly asked: "By the way, His Majesty the Emperor originally wanted to come to the rest city in person to seal the prince of the Yin Kingdom after the next capture of the rest of the city, if it weren't for the emergency of the Shuyue army......

Chu Xianzhao didn't answer his words and asked another question: "General Meng, do you think your father is a good emperor?"

Meng Yu touched his rough chin, and said with a relaxed face: "What is a good emperor? Judging a king can't use the standard of good or bad at all, you have grown up, under the third prince, you will soon become the son of the world, never."

It's naΓ―ve to judge a person by using good or bad...... As for whether you say that Your Majesty is a good emperor, I think Your Majesty has fulfilled the responsibility of a king, he has made Yinguo the first power in the Northern Regions, and let everyone in Yinguo live with dignity, which is enough. ”

Chu Xianzhao's face was solemn, and he looked at Meng Yu with some words, Meng Yu said in a serious tone: "The last general thinks that he will become a greater emperor than His Majesty, this burden is very heavy and heavy, and it is more difficult to keep a business than to start a business, once you take over this burden, even if you can't pick it up, you have to pick it!"

Chu Xianzhao said to himself: "Brother Shangwu will become a very good general, and it is difficult for my sister to inherit the throne of Yinguo if she is a girl, people have always told me this." said that I will definitely be the emperor of Yinguo in the future, and I want to study hard and not live up to everyone's expectations of you, but I really haven't thought about being an emperor, I have always ...... They all want to be like Brother Li. ”

Meng Yu returned to his usual kind appearance: "In addition to Wen Taowu, the most important thing for an emperor is to be able to see the eyes of the enemy, first stare at your enemy, and then kill him with the sword in his hand, in order to maintain this high degree of vigilance, you can't just close your eyes until the moment you die." He looked at Chu Xianzhao meaningfully: "This pressure will be very great, compared to what Li Changyuan has done, the choice you make is the key." ”

Chu Xianzhao lowered his head, "General Meng, saying such irresponsible words has disappointed you." ”

Meng Yu was stunned, shook his head and smiled: "Why are you disappointed? No one has ever been disappointed in you, although the burden on you is very heavy, I, Bai Yunye Zang and Chu Yingyang, and even Hua Youyue will help you carry it until the moment we leave you." ”

Chu Xianzhao looked at Meng Yu silently, Meng Yu stood up and patted the young prince on the shoulder: "People are inherently mortal, for a man like me, iron armor wrapped in dry bones is the best way to die." ”

Chu Xianzhao shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice: "I hope that the general will one day be able to disarm and return to the field, and return to the roots." ”

Meng Yu smiled, turned away, turned his back to the young prince and whispered: "It is impossible to disarm and return to the field, I, Meng Yu, will roar and die on the battlefield! This path is my choice, and I will insist on going to the end." ”

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Chu instantly summoned Meng Yu to leave the conference hall, Guan Ju led the platform to sit in front of him quietly, and did not speak, the young man suddenly felt a cool breeze, looked up at the window, as soon as the autumn wind passed, the cold winter was coming, and the slightly cold rain dripped on the bluestone floor along the corner of the eaves, and there was a soft sound, making people sleepy.

The rain washes people's hearts, takes away the blood of the dead, purifies everything in the world, and after an autumn rain, everything will be clean again.

Chu Xianzhao suddenly remembered that Meng Yu didn't bring an umbrella, so he immediately rushed out and grabbed an oil-paper umbrella by the door, and followed Chu Xianzhao quietly at a trot, Guan Ju was the same, Chu Zhaozhao rushed out of the house in the rain, it was dark, and the soldiers on patrol were also looking for a place to shelter from the rain,

But he never found Meng Yu's shadow again.

This man is always like this, always there when you need him the most, and when you want to help him with something, you can never find him.

Chu Xianzhao stopped, let the rain fall on him, and when the quiet little hand of Yutai pulled his sleeve, he opened the oil-paper umbrella to cover her and himself, Guan Ju was on his left-hand side, and he raised the oil-paper umbrella high to shield the two of them from the wind and rain.

Tantai Tranquility said that she wanted to see her mother queen, Chu Xianzhao thought about it for fear of disturbing the empress's rest, the little princess looked at him with teary eyes, and didn't say anything, this is one of her ways to deal with Chu Xuanzhao, putting on a very sensible and not making trouble, but you don't agree that I am unhappy, Chu Xuanzhao touched her head helplessly, so she had to agree.

Walking all the way, the sound of the wind and rain and the crying, every household has a sad cry, Guan Ju put his palms on both sides of the quiet cheeks of the platform, Chu Xianzhao was also silent all the way, without the humor and ease when getting along with them, his heart was very heavy, on the street, a teenager held an umbrella for the two girls to block the rain, some soldiers looked at this scene, and a little warmth emerged in their hearts, and their eyes did not move for a long time, until the three disappeared at the end of the road.

Chu Xianzhao took them to the heavily guarded courtyard, surrounded by the soldiers' iron spears, he took the hand of the quiet of the platform and walked to the door of the Empress Shuyue, knocked lightly on the door, and came over for a long time before someone inside spoke: "Ahem, cough, cough...... Who?"

"It's me and her. ”

The door creaked open, the empress stood quietly in front of the door, her face became more and more pale, her long snow-white hair fell on her shoulders, Chu Xianzhao could still smell a faint smell of blood from her, the little princess saw that her mother was safe and sound, stepped forward and hugged her waist, looked up at her, the empress touched her daughter's hair and said faintly: "Trouble you, I didn't even take care of my mother......"

"Don't say that, you've done a lot. Chu Xuanzhao gently put aside this sentence and turned away to stop disturbing the conversation between the mother and daughter, especially at this time, everyone wanted to stay with their families, including himself.

In the dead of night, the autumn rain is especially long, I don't know why the two of them are not sleepy, but a little hungry, Chu Xianzhao sat under the steps in front of the door and ate the roast chicken sent by the soldiers, Guan Ju sat next to him and took down the double sword, one hand supported the cheek, and the other hand went to receive the rain dripping from the corner of the eaves, and the rain gathered into a crystal in the palm of the girl.

As if the city did not welcome themselves, since they captured the city, there would be a rain every night, as if they did not leave Danyang This rain will never stop, after the death of the city lord of Danyang City, his two sons expressed their submission to them, and were willing to return the military power of Danyang City to the Empress of Shuyue, so that a lot of things were solved, and they did not dare to be unhappy, and many people could live.

After Chu Xianzhao finished eating the roast chicken, he stretched out his hand to catch the rainwater, washed off the greasy on his hands, and smiled softly at Guan Ju:

"You've helped me a lot in this paragraph, is there anything you didn't have before but you really wanted, or a wish or something, I can help you make it happen. ”

Guan Ju didn't want to think about it and said, "I want to take my mother back to the west to see my father." ”

"Isn't that what we're going to be aiming for, and what?"

"Be the most powerful swordsman in the world!"

"I can't give you the name of the most powerful swordsman in the world, and I have the ability to do something, but what else?"

In addition to the Xilin Sword God, only Chu Xianzhao, who is most familiar with Guan Ju, will find that a small dimple appeared on the girl's crystal cheeks, and in the eyes that are more crystal than the cheeks, there are countless fine droplets of water splashed on the bluestone slab, and after a long time, she whispered: "Find someone you like and spend your life in peace." ”

Listening to what the green girl was thinking, the young prince smiled helplessly, squinted at her with magnificent purple pupils, and his eyes were very gentle: "I can't give you what you want." ”

"It seems that you, the third prince of Da Yin, are not very powerful. ”

"Who's to say it isn't. ”

After Chu Xianzhao said this, he sat quietly on the steps, Guan Ju's eyes shifted to look at his side face, and the smile on his face became more: "Chu Xianzhao, what other woman have you liked besides Su Nianyu?"

Chu Xianzhao followed her example and held her cheeks, stunned, and the corners of his mouth subconsciously curled.

Guan Ju didn't get to the bottom of it, and said to himself: "The person I like Guan Ju doesn't need to be noble, and I don't need to be strong in force, as long as he likes me all over the world, as long as I like him all over the world, that's enough." ”

Seeing that Chu Xianzhao still didn't speak, the girl's face turned red: "Chu Xianzhao, don't get me wrong, I didn't say you ......"

Chu Xianzhao raised his eyebrows, narrowed his eyes, put his index and middle fingers together, and lightly touched her forehead: "I know that person is not me, I am not worthy of you, the most powerful female sword fairy in the world." ”

Hearing this, Guan Ju looked at Chu Xianzhao with some pity, and sighed softly: "Alas, it is only a woman like Su Nianyu who lacks heart and eyes will be obsessed with you, but it is better for someone to like it than not to like it." ”

Chu Xianzhao suddenly smiled brightly, and said heartlessly: "It's okay, I like her, she likes me, that's good, there's nothing better than this......"

Guan Ju was noncommittal.

The girl looked at the stagnant water on the ground and asked, "What about you? What do you want? ”

Chu Xianzhao thought for a while, and looked at her seriously: "Actually, no, the prince has troubles and pursuits like ordinary people, when I was a child, I wanted to become a person like Brother Li Changyuan, I didn't want to be pressed by my sister in the house to read and write in the winter, and I also wanted to go to a snowball fight with my young slave sister and them, make food with them every day, and sleep until I woke up naturally after eating......"

Guan Ju couldn't help but say: "You are the prince! Sleep until you wake up naturally, can you have some success when you are a child?"

Chu Xianzhao sighed and said: "The prince is also a child born in this world like an ordinary child, and he will also be greedy for food and sleep, what can I do as a child?"

Chu Xianzhao suddenly came back to his senses, he subconsciously called himself a child, you must know that if anyone called him a child before, he was desperate, but now that he has experienced so many things, he actually wants to go back to the past and be a carefree child all day long.

Back then, except for wanting to play with the maid, he really didn't have much pursuit.

But look at what he has done now, he destroyed a country, killed the queen of that country, and then led the army of the Yin country to occupy one city after another, in those wars, he always took the lead in killing the enemy, if these things were placed before, but I couldn't think of it.

Now he wants to go back to the past, but what about his past self? Does he want to be his current self?

He has now become the age he used to envy, but he has become the person who made him afraid in the past.

Thinking of this, Chu Xianzhao was suddenly a little disappointed in himself, he patted his cheek, and said helplessly: "I haven't had a mother since I was a child, and I don't know what it's like to have a mother, in fact, what I hope most is to see my mother once, and finally hug her again, and tell her that I am very good, my father is very good, my brothers and sisters are very good, and everyone is very good to me......

She was next to Chu Xianzhao's shoulder, listening to the young man's chatter, his voice was very soft and charming, listening to Guan Ju was not sleepy, this night seemed to be longer than before, maybe it was because of someone to accompany her.

As he spoke, Chu Xianzhao suddenly fell silent, Guan Ju looked up at him puzzled, and the young man muttered: "What do I want? What I want is like a little girl hiding in the corner and smiling at me, if I go to chase her, she will run, if I don't care about her, she will cry, but I will never catch her." ”

Guan Ju raised his nose and said, "If I were you, I wouldn't care about that girl, let her cry enough and stop crying!"

Chu Xianzhao said calmly: "But I can't, I can't see girls crying." ”