3

At the same time, in the Beifeng camp thirty miles away, Dai Ying urgently summoned the generals to discuss the matter, so that the big tent was full of disgraced people, and some of the slightly injured even sat in the corner of the tent with arrows, treating the wounded again and again.

"Why Mingjin? If you are in a hurry, you and I are celebrating our success with wine in the stone city at this moment! "It was Xing Tao who spoke, General Beifeng Zuo, the commander-in-chief of this night attack. Although he was standing under the big tent, he looked at Dai Ying in a questioning tone.

Dai Ying tilted her head and supported her face with one hand and two fingers. "When I marched, I told you, 'Set up camp outside the city, and order the scouts to probe left and right, and then discuss when the army arrives, and if the enemy goes out of the city to make an appointment, you can act cheaply.'"

"Yes, that's right."

"Can you meet the enemy and go out of the city to make an appointment?"

"Although not, but I have seen it go out of the city, the foothold is unheard, if you don't attack quickly, wait for it to improve the city defense, you and I will not be able to start."

"Out of the city? Can you break through the city? ”

"The city defenses have been breached, and it is only waiting for the army to break through."

"What about the walls of the stone city? When I arrive at dawn, your 15,000-strong vanguard army will be reduced to less than 5,000 crossbowmen and reserves, and if I don't come, your left army will be crushed! What do you take to capture Stone City? ”

"His Xuanlong Army is iron? After fighting all night, the building is about to fall, and if it attacks again or twice, its army will collapse! ”

"You!"

"The lord is not angry, and General Xing is not in a hurry." Just as he was at the tip of the needle, a man with bundled hair who was only wearing light armor over his robe interjected, this person was Dai Ying's military advisor Yuan Hua. "The general has conquered Shicheng like this and with a fighter plane, although he has not won, but he has destroyed his exit from the city, so that Shicheng is naked in front of you and me, it can also be regarded as meritorious, and it can make up for the violation of the order. But the lord's mind was not understood by the general. ”

He first calmed the restless emotions of the two of them, and then said: "If we continue to storm Stone City at this moment, you and I will definitely lose a lot. At that time, although Shicheng is taken, you and I will lose our troops and generals, and the defense of Shicheng City will also be dilapidated, how will we face Shuoguo's later offensive? Therefore, the lord wanted to put pressure on Shicheng here, and then besiege the city to help. ”

"Huh, do you understand?" Dai Ying eased her tone with Yuan Hua's explanation.

"This, this, this ......" Xing Tao also knew the truth of borrowing the donkey from the slope, "Why didn't the lord say it earlier?" Let me kill my brethren in vain! ”

"It's because I didn't know the main movement of Shuoguo before. Now Yingyue sent troops to Xuzhou at my request, and Yuan Qizhi led a large army to help, leaving only Yuan Xian's girl with less than 30,000 people. Huh! If you listen to me, this battle is already a sure thing. ”

"The lord doesn't have to sigh, now that the stragglers are returning to the camp one after another, our army still has 30,000 people, and the 10,000 reinforcements from Liaodong can also arrive in a few days. After this battle, there should be less than 5,000 people in Stone Castle City. If the design is good, this aid can still be played well. ”

"That's it!" Dai Ying breathed a long sigh of relief and ordered: "Xing Tao, give you 8,000 men to guard the main road outside the city, remember that you can't attack again this time, you have to defend." When I wait for the war to be over, I will come back and take the stone city together. If you go to war again, it will be unreasonable! ”

4

Compared with Beifeng's deliberations, Zhong Li only waited for everyone to return to the camp to count the battle damage, then let everyone rest, and only told two more words about repairing the city defense.

After a night of fighting, Zhong Li, who walked out of the big tent, suddenly felt that everything in front of him was a little trance when he saw the sun hanging high in the sky, and was pale by thin clouds and light fog.

"Busy until now?" Zhong Li knew that it was Gu Yu, and when he looked back, he saw that she had added a gray leather jacket.

"Come and listen to our deliberations, or ask for a thank you gift in the middle of the night?" That's a lukewarm question.

"It's that I've squinted and got bored. What is there to ask for courtesy, and what is there to hear? In the morning, Dai Ying withdrew his troops because he wanted to besiege the city and send reinforcements. General Zhong won't fail to see it, right? ”

"Don't talk about military affairs anymore."

Seeing that he was so cold, Gu Yu wanted to deliberately tease him. "Tired?"

Zhong Li inadvertently glanced at his right hand, "Yes." ”

"It seems to be tired." Gu Yu caught this move, and Zhong Li didn't refute it. "It's a good way to get out of your sleep."

"If you want to trick me, just say it." Zhong Li said and took a step to go back to the room.

"No," Gu Yu leaned against the flagpole outside the council hall, and did not mean to move his steps. "I'm just curious about how you can do it so neatly, I mean Hu Yang's business."

Zhong Li stopped at the gate of the courtyard and turned around and said, "If you get used to it, you will naturally be sharp." You're so well informed. ”

"It's been spread all over the world, and they all say that they are willing to let you do it one day." As soon as she said this, she saw the hesitation and loneliness in Zhong Li's eyes, as if an extremely cold wind swept across the lake, and the mirror water froze in an instant. So she walked up to Zhong Li and asked, "Didn't you say that you should take this place as your real life?" ”

Zhong Li nodded.

"Then don't say any habits."

"There is death and no life every day, and this kind of thing to liberate people does too much unnatural habits?" Zhong Li smiled puzzledly.

"Then why are you still depressed about this? Or do you feel like you're not depressed? ”

"Is it that important? It's not really dead here, and I'll be back in two months. ”

"But it's still a difference. If you take this seriously, it's a complete distinction. ”

"So what exactly do you want to understand?"

"I want to say that if you really put your life here, then death here is death even if it is temporary, and all values should be measured in the meaning of this world. Otherwise, why do you have to ride alone to save people, why do you have to defend the stone city, if all this is not the value of its protection, is it just to compete and be in the limelight? However, Gu Yu didn't say this, and when she found out that she was going to argue with Zhong Li, she couldn't help laughing at herself.

"It's me who is paranoid. I just admired that you were so decisive, and I took the problem to the depths. If you really want to know, it is nothing more than if this death is true and deserve to be goodbye, can you be the same as today. ”

Zhong Li couldn't understand why Gu Yu's eyes were more of an expectation than curiosity, which made him have to take this question seriously. "If I don't do it, who can do it?"

Gu Yu's expectation seemed to have been answered, and then her serious appearance quickly turned into a daily look. "Taking yourself seriously is indispensable to be as tired as today. Then what kind of happiness you have, outside of life and death, I'm afraid it will become empty talk. ”

Seeing that Gu Yu had some contempt in his usual words as in the past, Zhong Li knew that the topic was here. "So what?" He walked out the door.

The flag was torn by the cold north wind, and Gu Yu brushed his hair with one hand and didn't move a step for a long time.

"When you live and die, I hope you will still be the same as today. But at that time, who could see goodbye so lightly? The more important you are, the more you dare to take responsibility, the more you have to carry it for a lifetime. Happiness in the rivers and lakes, happiness is just for others to see, if the heart is the same can be uninhibited, I am afraid that it is either stupid or evil. That's it, the thousand-year-old wood can also be bathed in the morning light with the spring breeze, and it is a fool to think too much. ”

5

"If you really put your life here, all the value should be measured by the meaning of this world."

In the afternoon, the courtyard was very quiet, and the autumn leaves quietly danced and swirled, and slept quietly on the ground. After the battle, Shicheng lost the busyness of the previous few days of preparation, and everyone seemed to be tired and chose to recuperate in this afternoon. Zhong Li was lying alone in the empty room, and even the armor and blades that accompanied him were taken by Qin Lang to the blacksmith for maintenance, which gave him a chance to think about Gu Yu's words.

"What is the meaning of this world? The reason why I came to this world is that I don't want to live a life where I can see the head at a glance. Maybe it's escapism and can't contribute to the development of mankind, but life here is not as exciting as outside?

"Live a wonderful life? Yes, live a wonderful life!

"So I became General Zhong Li, General Shuoguo Xuanlong, Yingchuan Flying Snow Blade, and the little ghost head in the mouth of the veteran...... I'm afraid that the same is true for everyone to come here, to meet more people, to experience more unusual things, and then to be the person you want to be.

"What I want to be is a general who is decisive in killing, a flying snow blade who is happy to take revenge, and it is naturally my duty to bear the life and death of my subordinates. Don't say three or two months, it is goodbye, and the person who went under the knife must be me. I have to be like this here, it's my life. ”

Zhong Li thought like this, and his heart was a little happier. But he suddenly thought about how Gu Yu, a girl who is not big, should ask himself such a question. I thought that although she didn't seem to be doing something scrupling in the past few days, and she really helped herself this morning, her various behaviors were by no means like waiting for her friends to be released, but seemed to be intending to contact everyone. Someone as smart as she would never have spent his time here without a purpose. It just so happened that today's topic came out, and he had nothing to do, so he decided to ask Gu Yu about it.

Gu Yu's residence was arranged in the back alley of the medical hall a few blocks away, close to the edge of the stone city. Because the only women in the Xuanlong Army are basically focused on medical care, it is so cheap.

Earlier, Zhong Li personally saw Hu Yang away in the medical hall, and he didn't want to pass by here twice in one day. Compared to the morning when the wounded were brought in one after another, and the inside and outside of the infirmary were rubbing shoulders one after another, it was silent for a while, and only occasionally a cart came out of the back alley, pulling a full of corpses covered with straw mats.

Although Zhong Li is used to seeing such a scene, this is somewhat separated from Gu Yu's image, so it's no wonder that she came out to relax before. The house assigned to the medical ladies was deserted, and most of them were still busy in the hospital at this time. Zhong Li went to the innermost courtyard alone, and there was a backyard behind the main house, and in addition to weeds, there were piles of debris in the courtyard. There is a path from the weeds, and the road is full of a single room, listening to Qin Lang's description This is Gu Yu's residence.

The house was old but not broken, and the window paper was fresh in the past two days, and the roof had been tiled with new tiles. Zhong Li paused in front of the door for half a moment, and knocked lightly on the single black old wooden door.

"Miss Gu Yu is here?"

"What is the matter with the general?" Gu Yu heard that it was Zhong Li.

Zhong Li only looked at the depression of the courtyard, but he couldn't think of what to say for a while. After a moment of silence, I heard the footsteps in the room rise lightly, and the wooden door slowly opened halfway.

Gu Yu leaned against the door, his face a little pale because of the darkness in the room. "Didn't you make it clear from the previous topic?" She quipped as she let the door out.

Zhong Li hesitated to enter the house, the inside and outside of the house were clean, only one case was solved and two unmatched low stools, and half of the candle on the case seemed to have been extinguished this morning. A gray cloth separates the inner and outer rooms, and the inner room is where Gu Yu sleeps.

"Why is it so shabby? If you don't get used to it, I'll teach you a different place. ”

Gu Yu let the toilet sit into the house and pushed out the stove. "No, it's so clean, and you don't eat and sleep in the open. Your attendant cleaned up the place, it was simple but clean and warm. As she spoke, she took another clay pot, added water, and set it on the stove. I still have some tea left over from last time, and I wonder if I'm going to entertain you someday. ”

"I have such a big face that I can make you think about it."

The two looked at each other jokingly, then waited to set the cups and cups, and then Gu Yu said in advance: "That's what you can talk about, what's the matter?" ”

"Then I'll get straight to the point." Zhong Li carefully observed her expression as he spoke. "Why the hell are you here?"

Gu Yu smiled easily, "Didn't you say that you would wait for you to release people?" Suspect me of being a spy? ”

"If it's a spy, you don't have to come to the door in person, but I don't believe you if you want to wait for your friend." He added: "Since I have said it, I will not hide anything. In the past few days, I have sent people to take turns to keep an eye on it, and the number of times you go to see that Chongyi is only once a day, and each time it is only three or five sentences. The rest of the time, it's either wandering around or sleeping in the house, and if you really care about your friends, then I don't understand. ”

"You're still looking for someone to spy on me." Gu Yu pretended to be angry, but in fact he didn't care. She took two sips of tea before saying, "I thought you were a gentleman, but I knew that I would spend more time with him every day." ”

Such a calm reaction was not Zhong Li's expectation, after all, he didn't realize that Gu Yu was doing something that could make her panic. "In that case, you should have told me your purpose, right?"

Gu Yu sighed as if he was deliberate, turned sideways and put his hands on the case, and then said, "That's it, you and I have been friends for a few days, and I will confess." ”