The flaws of the world are mostly seen from the circumstance; The place of accusation is mostly seen from the place of love; Where it is difficult, see it more from greed. - He Jin

Imperial capital, Tianyuan City, Imperial Palace.

The dark red Nanmu incense burner burned the best Tegong water agarwood, and the cyan smoke spread in the empty hall one by one, and the clouds were shrouded in mist.

The morning sky outside the window is extremely high and far away, slightly glowing blue, without a trace of clouds, only the moving blue sky, as if it is a piece of blue jade without any flaws.

The palace reverberated with a large and low bell, which was a bell to remind people of the time.

"He Jin has fled, abandoned the pass and returned to the land of Sanfu."

The young man in Tsing Yi respectfully knelt on the jade steps beside him and whispered.

"Oh? Was my brother finally driven out of Shanhaiguan by some of the southern princes who went north? ”

A lazy voice sounded softly on the bed shrouded in light gauze, and the delicate and charming figure could still be seen through the tulle.

"Yesterday afternoon, the southern princes gathered a large army to burn the city with a torch stone cart and threw timber on it, and led the army to launch a general attack. He Jin led the army out of the city for a decisive battle, and no less than 40,000 people died on both sides, but he still let He Jin kill out of the encirclement and retract back to Guanzhong, but at night, He Jin led the army to abandon the pass lightly and retreated, and went straight to the land of Sanfu. ”

"And He Jin's army also killed and injured the southern princes' coalition army, so after He Jin broke through, the princes in the north led the army to catch up, and after passing the Shanhaiguan, the remaining checkpoints along the road were not enough to resist He Jin's army, so the princes in the north had no way to stop He Jin from returning to the imperial capital Sanfu."

After the young man in Tsing Yi finished reciting the military newspaper in his hand, he lowered his body, gently opened the curtain of the tulle and handed over the military report just sent by the prime minister.

"It's funny!" , There was anger in the woman's tone, "The dignified princes who went north, hundreds of thousands of troops, confronted each other for a month, and they didn't even take down He Jin, who was trapped in the city without food and medicine, and now he licked his face and sent a military report. ”

After reading the news recorded in the military newspaper, the beautiful woman on the bed was stunned, her willow eyebrows were upside down, and she tore the military newspaper in her hand into pieces and threw it on the bed.

The young man in Tsing Yi bowed slightly, as if he sensed the resentment in the woman's heart, and couldn't help but look a little strange and curious.

The woman seemed to see the change in the face of the young man kneeling in front of her through the tulle in front of the bed, and couldn't help but chuckle, "Xiao Jiu, are you curious why I first joined forces with the prime minister to rebel against He Jin's logistics generals left in the imperial capital, cut off his food and medicine supplies, and made him have to rely on the pass to defend alone, without help left and right, and even ordered the princes of the north to destroy my own brother's army?" ”

When the young man in Tsing Yi saw the slender jade hand stretching out of the tulle, he couldn't help but move, and quickly retracted his complexion, "Xiao Jiu doesn't understand, aren't you and the mighty general sisters and brothers?" ”

The beautiful woman let out a coquettish smile like a copper bell when she heard this, leaned lazily on the bed and stretched her waist, stretched out her milky white jade hand and gently tapped the forehead of the young man in Tsing Yi.

"There is no room for lambs in troubled times, Xiao Jiu, don't you say?"

The beautiful woman laughed softly, lifted the curtain, and her slender jade feet flashed in front of the young man in Tsing Yi who bowed his head, "Although he and I are sisters and brothers, I am the queen mother of this Great Zhou Dynasty, the queen mother of the first emperor himself, after I die, I should be buried in the imperial mausoleum to be sacrificed to the ancestral temple, everything is different after all, Xiao Jiu!" ”

The beautiful woman who stood up leaned against the table, although Shaohua was no longer there, but the grace and luxury unique to the royal family were still there. Under the soft silk nightgown, the curves of the body are still exquisite.

"If he is dedicated to the country, he is still my younger brother, but where is he willing to be subservient to others, and his eyes no longer covet a position that does not belong to him all the time!"

The woman's expression seemed to be a little low, and the light in her eyes dimmed for a moment, but the tone in her mouth was fierce and cold, "No matter who you are, if you dare to covet that position, you will die, even if I give everything, the majesty of the Great Zhou royal family cannot be lost in the hands of a woman in me!" ”

The young man in Tsing Yi, who was kneeling at the foot of the jade steps, didn't seem to hear this at all, still half-bowed his head, and occasionally raised his head to look at the woman with a gentle smile on his face.

"Prepare to meet my brother, he is now an enraged lion, ready to eat man with his bloody mouth wide open!" , The woman's face had calmed down, she sat down lightly in front of the dresser, pulled her jade-like hair, and smiled in her eyes, "The southern princes really played a trick to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf!" ”

The young man in Tsing Yi reached out and took the gilded phoenix hairpin handed over by the beautiful woman, gently pulled up the woman's waterfall-like hair, carefully coiled them, and inserted the hairpin.

"Xiao Jiu won't let anyone hurt you!"

The young man in Tsing Yi said lightly, but his tone was undoubted.

The woman smiled when she heard this, and the charm between her eyebrows made the young man who looked up stunned for a long time, "Xiao Jiu, am I old?" ”

Zhongzhou, Shanhaiguan.

Tens of thousands of troops tore through the defense line of the coalition army of the southern princes under the guidance of He Jin's long knife, leaving tens of thousands of corpses, and only fifty percent of the army was able to successfully break through the siege and abandon the pass and retreat.

The remaining fifty percent of the army lay silently on the battlefield, shoulder to shoulder with the corpses of the coalition troops of the southern princes, but they were like friends fighting side by side.

Batch after batch of armor soldiers were tired and formed around He Jin, scattered into a team of hundreds of people, and retreated towards the land of Sanfu in the imperial capital.

There are only a few cavalry under He Jin's command who struggled last on the battlefield, but the coalition army of the southern princes did not have the strength to make a tough pursuit, although it looked a little better than He Jin's cavalry army, and the situation was a little better, but it was impossible to use it for pursuit.

"General! Zhang Gou has not yet withdrawn from Guanzhong! ”

A general under He Jin was anxiously turning around his war horse and came to report.

"Where are the people?"

"Over there." The black-armored general pointed to the wall of Shanhaiguan.

When He Jin led the army to break through, he charged with the cavalry in the front, and sent his general Zhang Gou to lead an iron brigade alone in the last formation, guarding the back to prevent the southern princes from leading the army to sneak attack.

However, when the coalition army of the southern princes advanced forward with a mountain formation spear army when entering the pass, they forced Zhang Gou's troops back to death and isolated most of them from He Jin's command.

The iron brigade led by Zhang Gou was a foot soldier, and it was not as agile as the speed of the cavalry, so it could not bypass the princes' spear army and converge with He Jin's main formation, so it could only drag the princes' approaching spear army with heavy casualties.

And after a lot of casualties, the Red Brigade led by Zhang Gou no longer has the strength to launch a new breakthrough.

"Where? Where? I'll take a thousand people! Kill them back and bring them out! A general on He Jin's right side was even more agitated, shouting hoarsely.

"Bastard!" He Jin roared with a blank expression.

"General!" The general's eyes widened in disbelief, "Do you want to watch Zhang Hook die?" ”

"You go, don't think about coming out again!" He Jin slapped the general's face with a fierce whip, "Are you going to bury him?" ”

"It's better to be buried than to watch here!" The black-armored general sank his head, muttered in his mouth, and rarely became presumptuous, angry at the general.

Zhang Gou, the man who was usually silent, was the first person to serve He Jin like Wang Chong and Qi Yue, Wang Chong could not forget the earliest time in the always misty border town, he and the silent young man with a square face and beard met in a new army mixed with tribes from all over the world, and this army was later called Lei Cai.

At that time, Wang Chong, Zhang Gou and Qi Yue did not have today's fame, they were little people who died and no one looked at them, and even He Jin at that time was just the son of an ordinary family, and he was not valued by his father.

And it was these men who gathered together, and finally defeated all kinds of fierce enemies along the way, and held the power tightly, so that the entire Eastern Continent did not dare to underestimate them.

At this time, Wang Chong watched from afar as Zhang Gou with the last small iron brigade was about to be forced to die under the city wall by the phalanx of the princes, and he had always pretended not to do anything with a sharp pain in his heart.

He knew he was about to lose this friend, and no matter how sharp his saber was, he couldn't change anything. He could only widen his eyes in vain, confronting his master, as if he wanted to prove something in this arrogance.

He Jin took off his helmet, looked at his scarred face, suddenly stopped talking, and shook his head silently.

"General, Zhang Gou has returned to the city." Qi Yue said in a low voice.

Wang Zhong and He Jin looked up together, and Zhang Gou retreated into the burning Shanhaiguan with the last dozen foot soldiers.

In a moment, a broken black flag with the word He rose above the city, and everyone was silent.

It was Zhang Gou who led the troops to climb the fiery city wall, and he actually raised the banner of He Jin again.

Zhang Gou pulled open the placket of his chest, baring his muscular chest like a real wandering samurai, hysterically, swinging his sword and yelling.

It was too far away, and He Jin couldn't hear what he was yelling when he sat on his horse, only seeing him wielding his saber and using all his strength.

The most powerful alliance of princes in the entire Eastern Continent was at his feet, and everyone looked up at him brandishing his sword and shouting loudly.

Wang Chong's memory of this man has never spoken so unscrupulously, Zhang Gou is a man who talks too little, sometimes people don't understand what he is thinking, he is more calm than Wang Chong and other generals, every time he says a few words, he is also the most stable and conservative.

Wang Chong has always even laughed at Zhang Gou's mother-in-law. And at this time, Wang Chong didn't need to hear what Zhang Gou was yelling to understand everything.

The roar was so vertical and horizontal and unscrupulous, it was very similar to He Jin when he was young and Qi Yue who was drunk and singing, this person who had been silent for half his life, like a stone, seemed to be shouting out the words he had accumulated all his life at the Six Nations Alliance that he despised.

When asked why he wanted to join this new army of bandits, recruited by a young man, Zhang Gou said, "Today it is a new army like bandits, but tomorrow it may not be." ”

Now Wang Chong suddenly understood the meaning of this bland sentence, the silent Zhang Gou also had a great dream of fighting in this troubled world, and he regretted that he didn't ask Zhang Gou more directly.

Ask him, "Do you also want the world to know your name and be invincible on a war horse?" ”

The man who is now at the head of the city must have replied yes. Different people have similar blood flowing in their veins, so they end up in one place.

A feathered arrow flew and pierced into Zhang Hook's heart. His body shook, the sword was out of his hand, and together with his body, he planted a nine-foot-six-foot wall of heavenly wall.

He Jin's face turned pale, and he turned around the horse, "Let's go, go to the imperial capital, and calculate some things clearly!" ”