"It's too much snow, it's weird."

"yes, why did it suddenly snow?"

"It stands to reason that it won't snow so much until the New Year in the Central Plains, how can it be advanced this year."

"A bad omen."

"It's not ominous for Inuyi - their back road must have been blocked by heavy snow."

"Hahaha, they can't go back."

Zhang Xiaowu restrained his horse, looked at the tired brothers left and right, and ordered, "Take a break." Everyone hurriedly stopped or got off their horses, sat on the ground or directly lay on the ground, gasping for breath. Zhang Xiaowu's war horse was also so tired and panting, he jumped down from the tired war horse, took out the wheat from the grain bag under the saddle and fed it to the horse, and the horse ate happily. He had fed the horses before he sat down on the ground to rest, and while everyone was eating and drinking, he realized that he was a little hungry.

A few people made a fire, everyone gathered around to bake the fire, Zhang Xiaowu also came over, Chen Guanxi took out the dough cake from his arms, inserted it in the dagger, roasted it on the fire for a while and handed it to Zhang Xiaowu, everyone ate the dough on the snow on the ground and hurriedly ate the morning food. The victory in this battle was due to the sacrifice and resistance of the White Tiger Army and the Vermilion Bird Army, which allowed him to organize an army of 120,000 in Longdu and prepare enough food. He didn't mean to sacrifice the White Tiger Army and the Suzaku Army to weaken Dushanbo's army, but he had to sacrifice some people - if he was the first to go to the battlefield at that time, then he would not have escaped if he was chosen to die.

Any patriotic general must be a victim at this time, and he or Du Shanbo will choose to sacrifice himself.

Zhang Xiaowu thought about how to deal with the relationship with Dushanbo in the future, since Dushanbo returned, then he could only go south to the south of the Yangtze River. And he has a stable position with a heavy army, and he can give up the post of central commander of the court to Dushanbo. Du Shanbo is already over 70 years old, and he can wait for Du Shanbo to be unable to handle political affairs in a few years, and then return to the central government as the central commander, and military power is something he must retain.

"Commander, take a sip of wine." A lieutenant presented a wine bag and said.

Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said, "Okay." He took a sip of it and passed it to everyone, and everyone drank in turn, and warmed their bodies, but there was not much wine, and each of them quickly drank it without a sip.

The lieutenant said: "Commander, do we still want to fight the White Tiger Army?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "If you don't fight, how can you enter the country." ”

The lieutenant finally put his mind at ease and said, "It's good if you don't fight, it's good if you don't fight, my brother is in the White Tiger Army, and I'm really worried about meeting him in battle." ”

Everyone laughed, and Zhang Xiaowu said: "The White Tiger Army is a hero, remember." ”

The wind and snow were getting heavier and heavier, and the military flag was suddenly blown away, and an ominous feeling made everyone frown. Several soldiers hurriedly re-carried the flag, several horses also ran away because of the wind, and even the fire on the ground was blown away.

Zhang Xiaowu saw the soldiers shivering from the cold, and knew that everyone had been fighting for so long, and their bodies had reached the limit. So he ordered the withdrawal of the army and returned to Datong Mansion for repairs. Subsequently, the heralds gave orders everywhere, and the whole army immediately treated the wounded after repairing and returned to Datong Province.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the joy of defeating the enemy passed, and when they looked up, they saw that Lianghe Ridge was full of corpses, and a sense of sadness of the death of the same kind came to them. Whether it is the death of the robe or the death of Inuyi, the hearts of human beings are full of sorrow and pity for the death of human beings.

"Let's go." Zhang Xiaowu was also completely interested, a sense of emptiness and guilt arose, perhaps as he grew older, his heart did not have the fearlessness and indifference to life that he had when he was young. He gathered the army all the way, reorganized the army all the way, and when he returned to the camp, he had gathered nearly 100,000 troops. The White Tiger Army had already burned down all the camp tents, but fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu had already instructed Ruan Qingwen to prepare 200,000 camp tents and grain and grass in Datong Mansion, and the people of Datong Mansion also participated in the construction logistics.

As soon as he arrived at the White Tiger Army camp, someone suddenly reported that Du Shanbo was sick, and this time he was very sick. Zhang Xiaowu immediately rushed to Dushanbo's camp, but Wang Yijin and Xia Ming hurriedly stopped him, saying, "Your Excellency can't go alone, if the White Tiger Army takes the opportunity to do something to you, what should we do?" Zhang Xiaowu smiled: "You are too cautious, Du Shanbo is not such a person, he will only defeat the enemy in a dignified manner, and will not attack behind his back." The generals saw that they couldn't persuade them, so they had to send more people to protect them.

When Zhang Xiaowu saw Dushanbo, Dushanbo was closing his eyes, and Ouyang Hong and other righteous sons on the side were choking and crying, obviously he had made his last words to the righteous sons. Hearing that Zhang Xiaowu was coming, Du Shanbo finally opened his eyes, but his eyes were already cloudy, and he couldn't see where Zhang Xiaowu was.

Zhang Xiaowu rushed forward, grabbed Du Shanbo's hand, and said, "Dashuai, I'm here, I'm Zhang Xiaowu." ”

Du Shanbo was held by him, as if his whole body had regained strength, his eyes gradually brightened, and he looked at him and said, "Good boy, good boy, have you defeated them?" ”

"Well, we won."

"I knew you could win, but it was a great shame for my generation to enter the Central Plains, and I couldn't see the Han army expel it in my lifetime, and when you recovered the Two Wolves Pass, tell me in front of my grave."

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Dashuai, don't worry, I will definitely subdue the two wolf passes, definitely." I will kill all the aliens who enter the Central Plains, and use their heads to build a tower in Liangheling, called the Burial Hu Tower, so that all the aliens who dare to enter the Central Plains will see, and if they want to carry a knife into the land of my Central Plains, this is their fate. ”

Du Shanbo smiled with satisfaction and said, "I knew that you would definitely be able to do it." He suddenly coughed violently, coughed and vomited a mouthful of blood, and the military doctor next to him was about to step forward, but was pushed away by Du Shanbo, and said: "While I can still speak, I still have some important things to entrust, everyone withdraws, Zhang boy, you stay." ”

Seeing this, Dushanbo's righteous sons forcibly withdrew from the camp with grief, and Zhang Xiaowu's subordinates also retreated when they saw this, leaving only Dushanbo and Zhang Xiaowu.

Du Shanbo said with difficulty: "Zhang boy, do you want to be the emperor?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Xiaowu was taken aback.

Du Shanbo said: "I'm dying, you tell me the truth, do you want to replace the Xuanyuan family?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "No, I protect the Xuanyuan family." Although the Shenghan Dynasty was riddled with holes and the contradictions between the scholars and the common people were incompatible, I believe that a bad court is better than a change of dynasty, and the harm caused by a change of dynasty to the country, the nation, and the people is far greater than the prosperity brought by the establishment of any dynasty. The change of dynasty hurts the people of Limin, the Shi clan, in the end, they are still the Shi clan, they can withstand the catastrophe, but the people can't withstand it. For the sake of the people of the world, I will not be a person who changes the dynasty, I will keep my student Xuanyuan Chenghua. ”

Dushan Bo smiled, smiled and smiled, and finally closed his eyes.