Chapter 43: Seven Hundred Years Ago
Mu Yan is really gone, Xiao Qiyu hurriedly felt that Gongsun Ling had been prepared, and they were just throwing themselves into the net.
"Gongsun Ling really has a ghost in his heart. β
Yu Hitomi was in front of this person and said, "Your Majesty, but we'll release the signal now?"
"Ah Zhen doesn't know where it is, isn't it to force them to make a move now by releasing the signal?"
Yu Tong sighed, the other party really grasped Xiao Qiyu's pain point, as long as Mu Yan is really in his hands, Xiao Qiyu will not act rashly! Fortunately, the other party must have asked for something when he has this action, at least it will not endanger Xiao Qiyu's life.
"Gongsun Ling's thoughts are really obvious, but the emperor doesn't believe it, he still dares to do anything to the emperor," Xiao Qiyu shouted into the air: "Gongsun Ling, don't you plan to welcome the emperor when he comes to the palace?"
"Your Majesty!"
The scene around them changed, and the garden that had just been peaceful was no longer there, but was replaced by a towering wall.
It's snowing? The rain pupils on the city wall couldn't help but be stunned, it was late autumn now, and even the bitterly cold Mirage City would not snow at this time.
He reminded: "Your Majesty, be careful, this must be an illusion created by the illusion weaver in King Ning's mansion. β
"Don't you think this wall is familiar?"
Familiarity? Yu Tong looked around for a week, there were still many soldiers guarding the city at the head of the city, and the landscape under the city was slow, and everything was as fresh as life.
Is this the throat of the Northern Regions?
"Your Majesty, is it a ninety percent pass?"
"Yes. β
Jiucheng Pass is an important place in the Northern Regions, as long as you break through here and invade the capital, you can drive straight into the pass and attack the city of Mirage in one fell swoop.
And Jiucheng Pass was broken only once, that is, a battle with Chenguo hundreds of years ago, that battle was very tragic, if it wasn't for the Xiao family to defend in Mirage City, the Northern Regions may have ceased to exist a long time ago, that is, in that battle, the Muyan family was famous in the Northern Regions, thanks to their timely assistance they could outflank Chenguo in Mirage City. Since then, the Northern Regions and the Kingdom of Chen have both been defeated, and they have been at peace for hundreds of years.
"It must be that we have created so many sins that they have angered the heavens. The old man in the army began to discuss, turned his head and said, "Those captives of Chenguo have all been pushed to the Yellow River to worship the river god." β
"What?" The young man next to him sighed into his palm, and asked with satisfaction in his eyes: "I heard that there are more than 200,000 people, didn't Your Majesty promise to let them go back to the south, and never disturb each other with the Great Wall as the boundary hereafter?"
"Hey, what a fool, you also believe this! Didn't Your Majesty leave none of the hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Western Frontier more than ten years ago?" The old man glanced left and right, leaned a little closer, and said: "Your Majesty has also made an alliance with the Western Frontier, which can be stamped with the national seal, but what happened in the end? Not only is the Tuoba royal family gone, but I have heard that at that time, many old and weak women and children were filled under the city wall. β
"Then Your Majesty ...... to Chenguo this time"
"This time it's different from the western frontier, it's all the Chenguo who provoked the trouble first, and they should be killed!But it still shouldn't be for the people in the west, after all, they all surrendered at that time, why do they still slaughter the city" The old man shook his head, sighed faintly, and there seemed to be some admiration in his eyes: "I think the leader of the west Tuoba clan is also the same as our majesty, a rare talent in a hundred years, although it is inevitable to become a king and lose, but it is too cruel to his subjects." β
Slaughtering the city? Yu Tong and Xiao Qiyu were both shocked, how could they have done anything to slaughter the city in the northern region? Moreover, the pacification of the barbarians in the west was more than 700 years ago, listening to the tone of these two people, is this the ninety percent pass more than 700 years ago?
"But as long as we win, it's good, if we win, the Northern Regions will not be destroyed, and if the Northern Regions are not destroyed, our Xueyu clan will really still be there, I heard that we are the descendants of the demon clan." β
"That's right," the middle-aged man who was listening on the other side nodded, raised his eyes to look at the mountains in the distance, and whispered: "But whether this territory is open up or not, the king can't say a word, and what does it have to do with us, but no matter whether it succeeds or fails, it is still the people who bear the bitter consequences." β
"But Your Majesty did not go to the Western Frontier to expand the territory. β
"Oh?
"Because I'm going to find a treasure left by the demon clan, it is said that with that treasure, you can change the world. β
"A change of heaven?"
Xiao Qiyu turned his head and asked, "Yuyu, have you heard of this?"
"Your Majesty, I have never heard of any treasures in the Western Frontier, not to mention that the treasure house is in the palace, and your Majesty should know what is in it. β
That's right, he had never heard of anything in the Northern Regions that could have such great power in his more than years in the palace.
Perhaps they were too engrossed, and the soldiers at the head of the city didn't hear the footsteps behind them.
"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, you will die in the end, but you don't know that Your Majesty is here!"
They have a small identity, and they have never seen the true face of the monarch well.
"Who's that?"
Yu Tong looked at the eyebrows that were somewhat similar to Xiao Qiyu, and said, "If this is really more than seven hundred years ago, it should be Martial Emperor Xiao Jue." β
Xiao Jue, it was he who stopped the invasion of Chenguo back then.
"The villain knocks on Your Majesty. β
Looking at the trembling two, the young man smiled and said, "What, I, Xiao Jue, am really so terrible?"
"It's Your Majesty's extraordinary power, and villains and other ordinary people are just unblessed for a while. β
"You old man can talk. β
Judging from historical data, after his father, he launched several wars against Western Xinjiang, and even caused a scene where there was no one in Western Xinjiang for ten miles, and the cruelty of the war at that time can be seen.
Xiao Jue smiled at this time, he raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, and his tone seemed to have some nostalgia: "It's snow......ing?" I could see the snow here. At the end, Xiao Jue slowly stretched out his hand.
After being silent for a long time, he asked again: "So you all think that the rivers and mountains in the Northern Regions have nothing to do with you?"
Both of them held their breath and didn't dare to make a sound, only feeling that their hearts had fallen into the snow, and they both said that disaster came from the exit, and they were afraid that they were going to lose their lives this time.
"Even you think the emperor is too cruel?"
This is not a question, but more of an exclamation.
"Your Majesty, the villain deserves to die for his crimes, the villain gladly accepts the punishment, and I hope that Your Majesty will spare the family members of the ministers!"
Listening to the great panic in his voice, Xiao Jue's face also lost the smile he had when he came: "Go down, you all go down." β
"Your Majesty?"
"I don't blame you, let's go. β
"Thank you, Your Majesty for not killing! β
I, Xiao Jue, didn't use the honorific title, suppressed the doubts in my heart, and Xiao Qiyu looked at it fixedly. This is a very young face, and in this cold weather, the man's facial features are also as if they have been carved by the wind and snow, revealing the slightest chill that separates people from thousands of miles.
When there was no one around him at this time, Xiao Jue stepped forward slowly, and he reached out and stroked the battlements full of ice slag.
"The snow is as light as a flocculent, and life is as light as a dream. Unconsciously, Xiao Jue chanted this sentence.
"Xiao Jue!"
This shout resounded in the air, and when he squinted his eyes and looked closely, he saw a person standing under the castle tower, the black robe on his body was aimed at some patterns with red lines, and he could vaguely see the long sword in the man's hand.
"Ah Jue......" Xiao Jue's expression froze, he looked at that place with a blank look in his eyes, and only choked up when he spoke again: "You are still here." β
"Why are you doing this?
This voice carried a deep internal force, which was directly embedded in his heart, but Xiao Jue couldn't answer.
"Have you forgotten when you were outside the gate, you have forgotten your oath!" the young man said as he took out a silk book from his bosom, which was still impressively stamped with Xiao Jue's seal, and he shouted: "In the future, the two countries will be brothers, and they will be able to blend with each other and never disturb each other based on the Great Wall! Xiao Jue, why do you want to deceive usββ"
"Ah Jue, that's just a delaying tactic. β
"For my Tuoba people, why don't you even let go of the infant toddler!"
"I ......"
"And my brother, who you made a sacrifice of life, and put him alive into the sacrifice......"
Peeled alive and thrown into the sacrificial tripod? This made Xiao Qiyu feel familiar, for Lin Heng, the lord of the Heavenly Blazing Country, was also treated like this after the destruction of the country. Is there any connection between the two?
Xiao Jue, A Jue, and even the names of these two are so reminiscent.
"What did you take your oath for? What did you take me for Tuobajue?"
Xiao Jue couldn't help but close his eyes, and the pleading voice of Tuoba Jue in the Kunlun Festival was still in his ears - let go of the Western Xinjiang and let go of the Tuoba family. It's just that in the end, I can't do it myself.
"I'm sorry, Jue. β
"Xiao Jue, the brotherly relationship between you and me is broken. β
Xiao Jue wanted to speak again, but suddenly remembered that his skills were shallow, and on this towering city tower, no matter what he said, that person would not be able to hear it.
This is how this man came to take revenge, what a careless child.
Xiao Jue stretched out his hand, and the thousands of soldiers hidden around stood on the city wall with bows and arrows.
He looked at the people under the city and said, "This kind of battle is worthy of your identity as the heir of the Tuoba Emperor." β
As soon as the words fell, thousands of feathers shot towards the place under the castle tower.
"Jue, farewell. Xiao Jue turned around, but saw that the wind and snow in the sky seemed to be condensed with the arrows, and in an instant, it formed a snow vortex and sucked all the arrows into it. There were frequent exclamations among the surrounding soldiers, and the young man under the city was gone.
"What's going on?" The huge wind and snow made him unable to open his eyes, and Xiao Jue remembered the legend of the flood wilderness that Tuoba believed in.
A cold light flashed in his eyes, and then he shouted at the crowd behind him, "Hurry up, let everyone hurry to the city!"
"Your Majesty, be carefulβ"
Suddenly, the arrows shot out of the snow mist were covered with a layer of ice, and fell like a rain of silver arrows on the soldiers on the city wall. Without giving people a chance to react, Xiao Jue only heard the sounds of fighting and cries for help in his ears, but in the blink of an eye, the noise around him turned into a dead silence.
"Your Majesty must have thought it strange, why did you see this?"
As soon as Xiao Qiyu raised his head, he found that he and Yu Tong were standing at the head of the city, and Gongsun Ling, who was not far away, walked slowly.
"What is your purpose?"
"There's a secret in the North. β
"Secret?"
Gongsun Ling looked at the frost and snow under the city and said, "The entire Northern Regions have been alive for so many years just to find two things, this is my mission as a descendant of the demon clan. β
"What is it?"
"Hetu, Vena. β