Lin Nan set off, and the 100,000 horse infantry army marched to Pingqiu, where the troops of Zhisi Litun were in a hurry, and the whole grassland was suddenly not calm, but the noisy camp two days ago immediately became much empty, and the shouts of a few soldiers training were also weak.

Fan Bodang stayed in the village, although he also thought that this strategy would be successful, but he still sweated for Lin Nan, and in the deserted camp, except for the soldiers who were sentry, reporting the military situation, and guarding the gate of the fortress, there was no anger.

The cold breath on the grassland kissed Lin Nan's toned skin intimately without intervals, and his whole body felt extremely comfortable, and his thoughts were clearer than any other time.

A gust of cold wind on the grassland, blowing through Lin Nan's face, blowing a few strands of long black hair on his forehead, on the knife-cut face, in the display of personality, without losing stability and maturity, the faint lines on the corners of his eyebrows, and the deep and unfathomable eyes, with a faint sense of vicissitudes, inadvertently, Lin Nan came to this plane for several years.

The things of the past are still vivid, but time has passed, and I didn't expect that the passionate words of the day would create the current achievements, and they are still rising like excellent stocks.

The men and horses walked slowly, and the closer they got to Pingqiu, the more nervous the generals became, and they really didn't know what they would do if they were desperate.

On the grassland hundreds of miles away, the night was hazy and shrouded around the white tent, and it was dark on all sides, only a few fire lamps in the village were still faintly shining.

Zhisi Si Li's expression that he couldn't see through the sky, and the night scene on the vast grassland was also plausible, it seemed very vague, his expression was very calm, and his eyes looked into the distance faintly, as if he was waiting for something, and seemed to be thinking about something.

This qiē seemed very quiet, but this tranquility only lasted for half an hour, a tearing horse roar disrupted all of them, Zhi Sili frowned and looked at the gate of the village, only to see a probe horse running in with a rolling belt, shouting: "The general is there, the general is there!"

"I'm here. Zhi Sili walked over with a boastful stride, and the Tanma hurriedly pounced, and took two breaths before reporting: "General Qiqi, the Sui army suddenly dispatched a large number of men and horses to rush to Pingqiu. ”

"What! so fast. Zhisi Sili took a deep breath, and at this time all the generals had already run out, and after listening to the words of the Tanma, they all ate ~dǐng~diǎn~小~ and said, .2$3.⊙os_(); Surprised.

"General, prepare to meet the enemy. Several lieutenant generals each held their blades, without fear, Zhi Si Li looked around, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he pondered for half a salary before he said slowly: "Our army has traveled day and night, long distances, and it is already the end of the strong crossbow here, and the Sui army has newly broken the Khitan, and the morale is winning. ”

Several lieutenant generals were rough people, and they didn't understand his reasoning at all, and one of the Mongolian men with a tiger's back shook the ghost head knife in his hand and said loudly: "My Turkic iron cavalry is rampant all over the world, what do a few Han people count, is the general afraid of them?"

"What do you know!" Zhi Si Li snorted and looked at him with disdain, and then said: "My Turkic soldiers are strong and strong, but they have been defeated repeatedly, all because of you and other poor soldiers, fighting is about strategy, not hard slashing and killing, if we fight with the Sui army now, I am afraid that there will be a danger of annihilation!"

"So what are we going to do now?" the rest of the lieutenants hurriedly asked.

Zhi Sili shook his head helplessly and said, "Order the people to pull out the village and withdraw the troops." ”

"This!" everyone tried to persuade again, but Zhisi Sili had already turned around and went back to the account.

The speed of the marching of Lin Nan's brigade was not fast, but the Turks had to pack up their camp tents and load grain and grass, so by the time the Turkic army set off to withdraw its troops, Lin Nan's men and horses were already approaching Pingqiu.

When the news of the withdrawal of the troops came, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief and praised Lin Nan's clever calculation, and then Hou Junji suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the army of Zhisi Sili retreated in a hurry, if you chase from behind, you will win a complete victory." ”

All the generals also agreed with him, because Sun Tzu wrote it in the Art of War, but Lin Nan did not agree to him immediately, but looked at Li Jing and said, "What do you think, pharmacist?" Li Jing lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then said: "Don't chase it." ”

"Why?" except for Lin Nan, all the generals were puzzled.

Li Jing hurriedly explained: "Zhi Si Li is cautious, but also good at using troops, although he is now withdrawing troops, but not defeated, but actively retreated, and the speed of our army's march he will not be unpredictable, since he is determined to retreat, there must be a guard behind, if our army rashly pursues, it will definitely be ambushed." ”

Only then did the generals realize the truth, but Lin Nan suddenly said to Hou Junji: "Junji, you can quickly lead the people of the headquarters to pursue from behind, I expect that the force will be defenseless." ”

"This ......" Li Jing was taken aback, but he saw that Lin Nan was calm and calm, and he didn't even guess what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd for a while.

Hou Junji didn't care so much, he got the general order, and immediately chased after him from behind with 5,000 men and horses from his headquarters.

"How did the emperor know that there was no ambush for Zhisi Sili. Gao Dehong squinted his eyes and asked puzzled.

"I don't know if he has one. Lin Nan's words surprised the generals.

After about an hour, I saw a group of remnants rushing back from a distance, and then the number of people increased, some limped, and some didn't even know where the weapons were thrown, and the generals on the horse were covered in blood, carrying a green dragon knife, and drooping their heads.

Not to mention the use, it was Hou Junji who came back from defeat, and the generals glanced at each other, although they all complained in their hearts, no one dared to accuse the emperor in person.

Hou Junji hit the horse and approached, jumped off the saddle and knelt on the ground, don't turn his head, ashamed to speak.

Unexpectedly, Lin Nan's face was full of joy, and he asked with a smile: "You fell into the ambush of Zhisi Sili?"

Hou Junji raised his head, and as soon as he touched Lin Nan's smiling eyes, he immediately shrank down, and after a period of confusion, he finally mustered up the courage to speak: "The last general is incompetent, he actually fell for the trick of the fight, and was sandwiched by them, so it was a big defeat, and the casualties were not light, please ask the emperor to punish the crime." ”

Lin Nan laughed, stepped forward to help him up and said, "Okay, it's good to lose!" The generals were stunned, but Hou Junji thought that Lin Nan was humiliating himself, and he was ashamed of himself, and arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, please behead General Mo and his subordinates." ”

Lin Nan listened and helped him up and said, "Not only are you innocent, but you also have great merit!" and then ordered: "Medicine Master, you immediately diǎn Qi five thousand light cavalry with me and Junji to pursue Zhi Si Li." ”

"Ah, the emperor must not!" Gao Dehong glared and hurriedly bowed and continued: "General Hou is newly defeated and returns, and the emperor will chase after him, and there will be no difference in the pool, and I will not redeem him until he dies." ”

Lin Nan smiled and helped him up and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely win a big victory this time." At this time, Li Jing had already gathered all the people. Although he still didn't quite understand, he vaguely felt that Lin Nan's plan was unfathomable. ”

The generals persuaded Lin Nan but didn't listen, but still took Hou Junji, and Li Jing and the two led five thousand light cavalry forward.

The Turkic army was all cavalry, so the baggage grain and grass could only be placed in the rear. Lin Nan's men and horses traveled lightly and quickly, and soon caught up with the Turkic brigade, Hou Junji saw the baggage team in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this must be the trick of that guy!"

Lin Nan glanced at him and smiled: "Don't worry, I will definitely take revenge on you this time." After speaking, he shouted: "Kill!"

The Turkic rear team of men and horses are escorting the grain and grass baggage slowly, at first glance the Sui army is coming, only to see the soul is not possessed, one by one abandon the car and leave, the Sui army killed for a while, beheaded more than a thousand, insisted on Si Li did not know the reality of the Sui army, and was afraid that it was a trick to lure the enemy, did not dare to turn his head to face the battle, and finally could only abandon the heavy grain and grass wolf bèi to retreat westward.

The army withdrew, Lin Nan ordered to reward the three armies, feast the generals, at the banquet, Hou Junji held a wine glass, looked at Lin Nan with a puzzled face and asked: "The emperor doesn't have the eye of heaven to predict the world? ”

All the generals also looked at Lin Nan. wanted to ask him for an answer, but Li Jing smiled and didn't ask.

Lin Nan raised his glass and drank with the generals once, and then smiled: "What are the tricks in this world, most of the so-called military strategies are fake, I can expect that he will not set up an ambush because I have seen through his mind, he is too cautious and cautious, lest there be a trace of negligence." As the pharmacist said before, he wants to withdraw his troops, and the Hui army will inevitably set up an ambush, so the defeat of Junji is expected by me, he expected that our army was defeated once, and he must not dare to chase again, so he withdrew the ambush army to the front team, leaving only the slow-moving baggage and grain and grass team behind, so I can win a big victory this time, in the final analysis, the so-called military strategy is the speculation of the people's hearts, whoever sees through the other party's mind, then it will definitely be able to win a hundred battles!"

After listening to this, Hou Junji suddenly asked again: "But why didn't that guy go back to the army to save the rear team at that time?" Lin Nan looked at Li Jing with a smile and said, "Why does the pharmacist think so?" Li Jing raised the lamp and said loudly: "This is still because of the prudence of Si Li, he is afraid that the emperor's thousands of men and horses are just bait to lure him back to the army, so instead of rescuing the rear team, he ran faster!"

Only then did Hou Junji understand, and said to Lin Nan: "Even if Zhuge Kongming is still alive, it is not as good as the emperor's case." Lin Nan shook his hand and said with a smile: "There, there, it's all thanks to the efforts of the generals." ”

All the civil and military officers filled their cups and shouted in unison: "Long live, long live, long live!"

Lin Nan was satisfied, raised his death, and said loudly: "All the generals drink this cup with me!"

The bleak first quarter moon hangs obliquely in the northern sky, and this month is not the other month, because under the moon sits a beauty like no other in the world.

The snow-white robe was trembling in the moonlight, and there was no expression on his delicate face, but under the moonlight, there was a kind of indifferent passion.

The sword was held in his hand, it was a Qingfeng sword half a foot wide and more than one meter long, the front of the sword body was printed with a giant dragon, the dragon's eyes were shining with cold light, the whole sword was silver-white, and the sword body slashed through the sky leaving a faint trace of coldness.

"Good swordsmanship!" Lin Nan didn't know when he had stood behind the beauty, he had just drunk with the generals, and wanted to go back to the tent to rest, but found that there was a beautiful woman dancing the sword not far from the tent, where the human sword was flying, like a dragon catching the moon, he was thrilled to see it, and couldn't help but scream.

"Your Majesty?" It was Nalan Xue who was dancing the sword, she heard Lin Nan's applause, she was stunned for a moment, and then she took the sword and worshipped.

Lin Nan grabbed her arm with both hands and helped him up, and smiled: "I really didn't expect you to look soft and weak, but you dance the sword so gracefully and smartly, which is really my love and pity." ”

"The emperor has won the award. Nalan Xue still looked like a wooden man, but she was asking more than once in her heart: "He didn't die!"

Lin Nan naturally didn't know what she was thinking, so he just gently took her jade hand wearing a hand cage and sat on the grassy slope under the fence outside the camp.

Nalan Xue leaned quietly beside him, not knowing what this "terrifying" emperor wanted to do.

Lin Nan looked at the stars and sighed lightly, a pair of eyes seemed to be about to penetrate the clouds and mist, looking at all beings, his heart at this time was infinitely extended, the former family parents, former relatives and friends, in the thoughts are distant and unreachable, and the feeling is becoming more and more blurred.

People are just small sand in the universe, the flow of time, the passing of years, and the tide of the times. It will also be washed away by the big waves and disappear without a trace.

The two of them sat quietly for half an hour before Lin Nan came back from the City of Memory, closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.

Nalan Xue didn't know what he meant, but she didn't ask, and only then did she hear Lin Nan ask, "Do you hate me?" Nalan Xue replied without thinking: "Hate." ”

Lin Nan smiled indifferently, and naturally revealed a thousand charms to Nalan Xue. was indifferent, and said in a slightly helpless tone: "I know you hate me, and I hate you for making you light." ”

"No, I don't hate the emperor for slighting me, but I hate the emperor for killing so many innocent Khitans, some of them are still children, and some are old people. Although Nalan Xue was expressionless, when she said these words, she made people hear a sad feeling from them.

Lin Nan didn't have the slightest reproach on her face, but just sighed and said: "People are a combination of contradictions, on the one hand, they think about how good they can be, they want to have this, they want to have that, but when they really have what they want, they can no longer get out of it, and what they lose is the whole freedom." Just like your father, you can see that he is a person with great ambitions, he wants to make your Khitan people strong, these are not wrong, but in many cases, I have to worry about this, and worry about that, if I am just blindly cowardly and aggrieved, it is not only a matter of losing face, it is the whole country that is in danger, as for those old people and children, I really can't do anything, the original intention of the war is profit, the process is to kill people, as for whether these people are innocent, who can say. ”

Nalan Xue listened to Lin Nan's words, looked at him in a blink of an eye, and didn't know why he was saying this to himself, and Lin Nan didn't know why he was talking to her so much, and in the end he could only think that he was drunk, but in fact, he was not drunk, he was just hazy, and he just wanted to find someone to talk to.

"I didn't expect the emperor to be the son of heaven and rich from all over the world, so he would have such a sigh. Nalan Xue said subconsciously.

Lin Nan shook his head, picked up a handful of branches on the ground, and his eyes suddenly became confused.

"Whether you are a noble son of heaven or a disgraced subordinate, what can you actually do? My throne climbed up by stepping on the corpses of thousands of people, and my corpse will eventually be trampled under the feet of thousands of people. ”

Nalan Xue didn't expect him to say such incisive words, her heart trembled slightly, and she couldn't help blurting out: "Even if there is a thousand-year-old iron threshold, you will eventually need a soil steamed bun." ”

"Well said, I'm very glad you can say that. Lin Nan stood up as he spoke, put his hand on her shoulder and sighed: "I will let you and your father go back to Khitan tomorrow, I hope you can remember what you said, tell your father, let him be his great sweat, don't have other thoughts, if he still wants to embark on the road of no return, then there will be no chance to turn back." ”

Nalan Xue didn't expect that he would say so many words and it would be such an ending, Wu Di was surprised for a while, got up and grabbed and stared at Lin Nan, an incredible expression appeared on his face, and a pair of phoenix-eyed bosses lightly opened his lips and asked, "Your Majesty, what you said is true?"

Lin Nan saw for the first time that she actually had an expression on her face, and she was shocked and said, "You have no jokes." ”

Nalan Xue's tears dripped down the corners of her eyes, her knees fluttered and she knelt down at once, and thanked gratefully: "Your Majesty, rest assured, Xue'er will definitely not let her father Khan rebel again." (To be continued.) )