The Daizhou Army is coming.

The addition of more than 2,000 new troops has made the border pass that was almost breached stable again, but this does not mean that the border pass has become impregnable, and more than 2,000 people are actually just a drop in the bucket for this war.

There are at least forty or fifty thousand black warriors outside the city wall, and this is only the vanguard army, if nothing else, the total strength of the black warriors going south this time may not be less than 300,000, this is just speculation, because if you want to go straight to the Central Plains, less than 300,000 troops is just a game.

And this is Tan Qianshou's most conservative prediction in order to appease the people inside and outside the city, Liu Mu's prediction is not so optimistic, judging from the banner outside, this vanguard general is the Lu Chi who beat the Great Chu Northern Expeditionary Army back to the Guannei in embarrassment that year, at that time, Lu Chi was still very young, and there was a determination that he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and it was this determination that made him stand out in the war.

After the war, the law was rewarded continuously, and it was rumored that he had been the general of the Heiwu Empire three years ago, and according to the rank system of the Heiwu, he was already a feudal official of the second grade.

Such a big man is only a vanguard general, so Liu Mu speculated that this time it is very likely that the Heiwu Khan Emperor is the enemy of Dashi Yujia, so the strength of Heiwu to the south should be far more than 300,000.

Even the people of the Central Plains know that this wide and invincible Dashi is a warlike madman, and he has hardly stopped his foreign conquests during his reign, and for more than ten years, those small surrounding countries that were attached to Dachu have been wiped out by dozens of black warriors.

Now is the best time for the Black Warriors to go south, how could the vast and invincible Dashi, who wants to be the first emperor of the ages, not come? As long as he settles the Central Plains in one battle this time, he will surpass any Khan emperor in the history of the Black Warrior Kingdom, and even surpass the founding emperor who commanded a group of stragglers to defeat the Mongol Empire.

Broad and invincible Dashi wants to make his own name rank first in the history of the Black Warrior Kingdom.

The Founding Emperor only repelled the Mongol Empire and recaptured their own homeland from the Mongol Empire's iron horsemen, and if he could set foot on the Central Plains, wouldn't his feats be even more magnificent than his ancestors.

At night, on the city walls.

Liu Mu came over with two jugs of wine, walked to Tan Qianshou's side, and kicked Tan Qianshou, who was sitting there asleep, with his foot.

Tan Qianshou hadn't slept much for four days and three nights, and after nightfall, the attack of the Black Warriors was once again repulsed, and Tan Qianshou sat down on the city wall and fell asleep after checking the casualties.

"You can sleep?"

Liu Mu kicked Tan Qianshou awake and sneered.

Tan Qian's hands fluttered for a moment, he didn't expect that he would fall asleep at such a time, the enemy is current, even if he had to sleep for a while in the previous four days and three nights, he would wake up soon after, but he was extremely down-to-earth when he slept for a while, and he didn't seem to have any worries in his heart.

He thought about it, maybe it was just because Liu Mu came.

This man who used to be like a brother to him and then hated him like an enemy came, but he slept soundly.

But Tan Qianshou didn't say what he thought, they were all big men, and even if they thought of some words, they didn't want to say them, after all, they seemed a little numb.

Liu Mu gasped and sat down beside Tan Qianshou, and then threw a pot of wine into Tan Qianshou's arms.

"Do you think I won't come?"

Liu Mu asked him after taking a sip of wine.

Tan Qianshou shook his head, he didn't know how to answer, before Liu Mu came, he had thought that he had analyzed that Liu Mu would not come very rationally, but there was a voice in his heart that kept telling him that Liu Mu would definitely come.

Liu Mu saw that he didn't answer, so he snorted and said, "Guess that's what you think, but Lao Tzu is here, Lao Tzu is not like some people, brothers can die if they ask for help." ”

Tan Qianshou smiled bitterly, and then poured a sip of wine.

Liu Mu glanced at him, and then exhaled heavily.

"I really persuaded myself not to come, you could be ruthless not to save me back then, why can't Lao Tzu be ruthless?"

Liu Mu took a sip of wine and suddenly smiled.

"Lao Tzu really can't be ruthless."

He stretched out the wine jug, and Tan Qian touched him with the jug in his hand.

A thousand words, all in this touch.

The two of them raised their heads at the same time and poured a sip of wine, then looked at each other, and laughed heartlessly, and in this sip of wine and laughter, there was a lot of relief and how much the past of the two people was hidden.

"Do you hate me?"

Liu Mu asked again.

Tan Qianshou shook his head: "I don't hate, I never had." ”

Liu Mu smiled: "Lao Tzu has bullied you so much in the past nine years, you don't hate me?" ”

Tan Qianshou snorted and said: "I want to hate, really, sometimes I want to be scolded by your grandson, especially every time I go to Daizhou City to beg you to distribute grain and grass, I can't wait to give you a slap, but I can't hate it." ”

Liu Mu said: "Is it cheap? ”

Tan Qianshou said: "If you think so, it's a little." ”

Liu Mu said: "Me too, cheap." ”

The two men looked at each other again, then laughed again.

"Do you know why I seem to have changed?"

Liu Mu didn't wait for Tan Qianshou to answer this question, because he knew that Tan Qianshou couldn't give an answer, even if they were so similar when they were young, the two of them had countless ideas and were almost the same, at that time Liu Mu once said that the two of them might use the same brain.

He lowered his head and continued: "Because after that war, Lao Tzu found that the people who were bullied in this world were all real people, all of them were people who did things, and they were all really desperate people...... In that battle, why did you think about it after you and I were left behind? ”

Tan Qianshou said: "Naturally, it's because you and I didn't go to give gifts." ”

Liu Mu snorted: "So those who sent the money were all in the retreating brigade, and people like you and me were left behind, and they had to fight hard to protect them, bastards who were afraid of death, Tan Qianshou, do you know why Lao Tzu resents you?" It's not because you didn't save me, you're right, how can you leave your post without permission in the war? Lao Tzu blames you because you are guarding the mountain pass to protect those bastards. ”

Tan Qianshou opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word.

He had never thought about this, and after hearing Liu Mu say it at this time, the guilt in his heart was even heavier.

This is indeed the case...... He didn't go to save Liu Mu, who was like a brother and sister, but buried more than 1,000 Chu soldiers to defend the back road for those bastards who were greedy for life and afraid of death.

Thinking of this, Tan Qian raised the wine jug and poured a few more sips.

"So then I changed."

Liu Mu continued: "Instead of letting those bastards who are greedy for life and afraid of death go back and receive all their military merits, and still point at our noses and scold the streets, why don't I also go and get a piece of the pie, otherwise what the fuck?" At the beginning, Yuwenle's bastard ran away with more than 10,000 troops, leaving me with 1,000 people to hold on, but after he went back, he was rewarded as a first-class marquis?! ”

He let out a long breath, but he couldn't get out of it at all.

He said: "So after Lao Tzu returned to the capital, he sold his property, tried his best to please Liu Chongxin, and shamelessly worshiped him as his father-in-law, in front of the civil and military officials, I knelt down and kowtowed directly and begged him to accept me, I still remember the way he laughed, but I have to do that......"

He looked at Tan Qianshou: "Your merits and demerits are comparable, you now understand how it came about, right?" Come to think of it, do you still resent me? ”

Liu Mu went to Daizhou to be a garrison general, he was Tan Qianshou's top boss, Tan Qianshou naturally looked at his face, and he also said when he met people, he came back to Daizhou to be a general to rectify Tan Qianshou, even Tan Qianshou had heard that his original military exploits were all lost by Liu Mu, and in the end it was just a merit to offset it, but Liu Mu did this just to protect him.

Nearly a decade after the Great War, he was in this hellish land

Fang is the general of the border pass, which is not Liu Mu's exclusion, but Liu Mu's preservation.

In fact, it is not what most people think, why did Liu Mu sell his property to tie up with Liu Chongxin? Is it because he heard that the army was defeated, Liu Chongxin and they wanted to find some scapegoats, and they lost 120,000 elite government soldiers in defeat, and few people were beheaded, can it be regarded as an explanation?

And Tan Qianshou is one of these scapegoats, in the original performance to His Majesty, Tan Qianshou not only did not defend the retreat of the army, but was written as one of the culprits who escaped from the battlefield and led to the defeat of the rear army and was slaughtered by the black warriors.

Liu Mu sold his property to Liu Chongxin, and worshipped Liu Chongxin as his father-in-law with all his flattery before the civil and military officials, just to be able to remove Tan Qianshou's name from the book, and in the end, Tan Qianshou's Zhujiu clan became a merit and demerit.

Liu Mu's words were said without explanation, but Tan Qianshou understood no matter how stupid he was.

He looked at Liu Mu blankly, his eyes gradually reddening.

"I look at Lao Tzu like a mother, like a girl."

Liu Mu drank all the wine in the wine jug, he raised his hand and patted Tan Qianshou on the shoulder.

"Qianshou, you know, we have suffered too many losses because of this, Yuwenle is now a general of Yiwei, I sent so much gold and silver, and I changed it for a Daizhou general, and what about you......"

Liu Mu looked at Tan Qianshou and said: "Of course you are a bastard and deserve it, if it weren't for Lao Tzu thinking, it was the people of Dachu who I wanted to protect, not the moths of Dachu, I really wouldn't have come this time." ”

Tan Qianshou looked at him and suddenly smiled: "I don't believe it." ”

Liu Mu gave him a blank look: "Do you think I will come simply to save you?" Lao Tzu came because of the people. ”

He laughed to himself when he said that, he didn't really fucking believe his own words.

"Last time, we didn't have a chance to fight together."

Liu Mu stretched out his hand and shook it and said, "This time it's okay." ”

Tan Qianshou also stretched out his hand, and the hands of the two people were tightly clasped together.

If it weren't for seeing such a battle situation after arriving at the border pass this time, he felt that he might have no return, Liu Mu would not have said these words to Tan Qianshou, and sometimes he thought that it would be better to make Tan Qianshou's idiot feel guilty for a lifetime as he had done in the past nine years, because that kind of guilt would be better, if Tan Qianshou knew that Liu Mu recognized the thief as his father in order to save him, that kind of guilt would be even more difficult.

Every time Tan Qianshou went to Daizhou to ask for food, Liu Mu felt uncomfortable looking at him like that, but he also knew that if he didn't show his ruthlessness, that guy, the torment and guilt in his heart would drive him crazy.

"It's a pity."

Liu Mu looked at Tan Qianshou and said: "When we were young, we still had an agreement, if our descendants are a son and a daughter, then we will become in-laws, if it is two sons or two daughters, then let them worship, but you waste, after so many years, let alone children, there is not even a woman." ”

He glanced at Tan Qian's hands: "Waste, no? ”

Tan Qianshou snorted and said, "Do you have children? Do you have a woman? ”

Liu Mu said proudly: "Although I have no children, but I have women, you think that Daizhou City is the same as your side, and the bird droppings on the ground are all public dung." ”

Tan Qian's hands flickered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, if it's really as you said, you can still be so fierce when you kill the enemy today?" I think you're bragging. ”

Liu Mu laughed, stood up, and looked out into the distance with his hand on the city wall, where was the company camp of the black warriors, and the lights were continuous like a star falling on the ground.

Tan Qianshou also stood up, and unconsciously, put his hand on Liu Mu's shoulder, Liu Mu's hand was also on his shoulder, and the arms of the two people were crossed there, just like ten years ago, when they were preparing to go on the Northern Expedition with the army, they stood on the high slope and looked in the direction of Heiwu.

It's a hook on the shoulder.

They are no longer young.