"Do you regret staying in this city?" Li Su's voice was very distant, as if he was asking Jiang Quan through a layer of impenetrable fog, as if he was asking himself.

"No regrets!" Jiang Quan's eyes were red and he gritted his teeth, but the firmness in his eyes never dissipated.

"Why don't you regret it?"

"Defending the land to resist the enemy, serving the family and country, it is not easy to die, why regret it?"

Li Su nodded, he had walked out of the city for ten miles, as long as he didn't look back, now he may be sitting in the lobby of the Yumen guard, drinking grapes lightly and comfortably, unhurriedly wording up, explaining the reason why he had to abandon Xizhou, Li Shimin may be angry, may be disappointed, or may order his official position to be removed, and will never be used again, but at least his life has been saved, and he can live the life he wants to live comfortably in Taiping Village, without responsibility and fetters, Use the knowledge of your previous life to figure out some new things that are not available in this era, and be a rich man who is rich and happy for the rest of your life.

However, ten miles out of the city, he turned back.

This decision is still regarded by himself as the stupidest thing he has ever done in his life, but if he goes back in time and asks him to choose again at the fork in the road in life, maybe he will still choose to turn back.

If you're stupid, let's be stupid to the end.

Outside the city, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves seemed to be close at hand, and the enemy troops temporarily withdrew, not knowing when the next siege would be, let alone whether the city would be able to defend itself.

"I should send someone out of the city...... Li Su muttered: "If I die, I should also report to my family, and I will go to the underworld in the future, so I can teach my father to burn more paper money for me, otherwise I will not have the capital to do business......"

Jiang Quan was silent for a moment, and sighed gloomily: "I don't have to report the news, I kowtow to my father and mother when I leave Chang'an." At that time, I knew that Xizhou was not peaceful, and I told my father and mother that if I didn't come back, I would die, but fortunately, there were still two brothers in the family, and they did their filial piety for me. I have no regrets. ”

Li Su smiled sourly: "You have two brothers, I am the only seedling in the family, if my father was as honest as he is now when he was young, and he didn't owe a romantic debt outside and have an illegitimate child or something, I'm afraid that no one will send him to the end of this life......"

Jiang Quan's expression was full of guilt: "Li Beijia, it was the last general who dragged you down, if it wasn't for the last general who insisted on staying and guarding the city, I'm afraid you wouldn't have come back, in fact, I also know." After all, this city can't be defended, but if you can't keep it, you still have to keep it, I'm just a vulgar martial artist, I don't know much about the big truth, I only know that it is the duty of a military general to defend the land and resist the enemy for the Tang Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with the duty to defend it, and the city is the city of the Tang Dynasty. People are from the Tang Dynasty, since they are in this city. If you can't keep it, you have to keep it, and you will rest until you die......."

Li Su smiled bitterly: "Yes, until death, you are really talking, there are 5,000 people guarding the city, and now there are less than 500 left." Seriously, I still don't agree with your approach, but I'm still with you to defend the city...... Because I'm not very sick. General Chiang. You didn't drag me down, I was the one who walked out of this city, and I was the one who came back, no one forced me, everything was my own decision, since I came back, I had my own plans to die, although I was not willing to die, but, let's die. ”

Jiang Quan hesitated for a while, and said: "Li Beijia, the enemy army has been attacking the city for half a month, in fact, it has always been the side of the siege of Sanque and one, and the side of letting go, the last general has sent scouts to investigate, and there are no ambushes at all, which means that they do not intend to put us to death, Li Beijia is the only son in the family, it stands to reason that he should not participate in this battle, and the Tang Dynasty does not have the rules for letting the only son participate in the war, you can accompany us to this point, you are already a great man, here and now, the city can no longer be defended, Li Beijia might as well leave the east of the city......"

Li Su looked at him amusedly: "Of course I can't wait to leave this ghost place, but if I leave the city, what about you?" ”

Jiang Quan sighed: "The last general said that it is the duty of a military general to defend the territory and resist the enemy, and we will naturally rest until the death." ”

Li Su patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You will be a hero, and I will be a deserter, to set off your greatness, right?" If I want to leave, I won't come back after leaving the city, and since I'm back, I won't leave easily......"

Retracting his smile, Li Su looked up at the blue sky, where there were a few dazzling white clouds.

"More than four thousand five hundred pairs of eyes are looking at me from heaven, how can I go? The more Pao Ze dies, the heavier the fetters and responsibilities on my body will be, I can't go, now it's no longer a matter of whether I can defend the city or not, I have to do something, let the more than 4,500 Pao Ze and General Xiang's spirits in the sky see, what they did in their lifetime, I still continue to do it, they will not rest until death, and I will rest until death, so that I am worthy of the dead brothers and myself......"

Jiang Quan thought for a while and said with a smile: "Don't be worthy of being a talented man who is famous in Chang'an, these words are exactly what the last general thinks in his heart, but I don't know how to say it, yes, the spirits of the brothers in the sky are watching us, we can't go, and it's a shame to go." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and then, as if they were speechless.

Li Su looked up at the white clouds in the sky in silence, and his mood was surprisingly calm.

In fact, there are still many unwilling, what should the father of the family do? Xu Mingzhu should have returned to Taiping Village, stupidly waiting for him to go home, and Dongyang, he must be sitting by the river beach every day, in a daze, waiting for him, I really want to turn into a breeze and fly back, tell her who is waiting stupidly by the river beach, don't wait, go back......

After coming to this world for three years, I unknowingly had so many bonds, and my fingers were softly wrapped around my heart, so that I was so reluctant and unwilling to face death......

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The rumbling war drums sounded again, and the wind and clouds between heaven and earth changed color, and the murderous atmosphere was full of wilderness, and the war clouds were dense.

Li Suchang sighed, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and then picked up a spear from the ground that he didn't know who had left behind.

Yes, he is weak, and before death is coming, no matter how he tries to show a heroic and heroic appearance of looking at death as home, but tears still involuntarily shed in his eyes, Li Su is just an ordinary man, and he is afraid of death, cowardly, and greedy like other ordinary people. There is also a little bit of bullying and fear of the hard, they are all cannibalistic fireworks, no one is better than anyone, when the shadow of death is really hanging over the head, the tears of fear will still flow down disobediently.

Still, he clenched the spear in his hand. This is the shining light of his humanity that is slightly different from that of ordinary people.

Fear is afraid, but, do not escape, do not compromise.

Standing up with difficulty, Li Su slowly looked around at the remaining hundreds of remnants of the city, and finally his gaze fell on Wang Zhuan.

There are also a lot of injuries on Wang Zhuan's body, more than 20 places of size, and the long and short knife edges are covered with the front chest and back, horizontal and vertical. The whole person was already shaking a little. Kong Wu's powerful body was as stiff as an old man in the twilight at this moment.

Li Su's eyes were full of guilt, but Wang Zhu grinned at him indifferently, as honest and harmless as usual.

"Achievement, huh? Regret not? Crying and shouting to come to Xizhou with me, I thought about making meritorious contributions and being knighted, but I lost my life, and you lost a lot of money on this deal. Li Su laughed.

Wang Zhu also smiled: "I don't regret it." Don't forget, I'm also a soldier of the Tang Dynasty. is still a soldier of the Modao Battalion, it is his duty to defend the land and resist the enemy, if he dies here, His Majesty will not treat my father and mother badly, the only regret is that I couldn't let my aunt leave me a seed, it's bad to think about it. But fortunately, there are still the second and fourth children in the family, and the Wang family will never be left behind. ”

Li Su smiled and patted him on the shoulder, maybe it happened to hit the wound, and Wang Zhu was so painful that he inhaled cold air.

Turning to look at Zheng Xiaolou, Li Su also smiled at him.

Zheng Xiaolou's expression was still as hard and smelly as the stone in the pit. Even the eyes are the kind of slanted eyes that are not pumped.

Li Su sighed: "I saved your life at the beginning, you should return it to me today, peck and drink, cause and effect will be offset by karma, and you will be a brother again in the next life." ”

The corners of Zheng Xiaolou's mouth hooked slightly, which was considered to be a smile, and then nodded and clenched the knife in his hand.

The drums of the march outside the city became more and more rapid, and Li Su clenched the bloodstained spear in his hand and shouted, "Brothers, you are on the road!" ”

Set up the bow, pull the string, the remaining more than 40 earth-shattering thunders are gathered in the palm of the hand, and the five hundred remnants of the soldiers are like green pines that will never fall, standing straight at the head of the city, with the last trace of strength and the last trace of will for the rest of their lives, to do their last bit of strength.

The drums of the march became more and more rapid, and outside the city was still a group of people who were still as black as the tide, neatly lined up, just waiting for the final siege horn.

Unexpectedly, the drumming stopped abruptly at the most rapid moment, and the enemy troops outside the city remained motionless.

After a long time, the Chinese army array separated to the left and right, giving way to a wide avenue, and a middle-aged man with a turban on his head and a cyan robe rode out on his horse, and walked towards the city gate without hurrying.

When they were still about a mile away from the city, Li Su squinted, finally saw the appearance of the person who came, and then smiled.

Placing the spear in his hand diagonally next to the arrow stack, Li Suchang smiled and saluted him with a fist from afar: "That brother hasn't seen him for many days, it's been a long time." ”

The person who came was the merchant Na Yan of Qiuci, the cousin of the Prime Minister of Qiuci.

Na Yan was not afraid of the cold arrows aimed at him at the head of the city, and rode alone to the city gate as if he had entered a no-man's land, not even caring if he was within the range of the bow and arrows.

It wasn't until ten steps away from the city gate, almost breathing, that Yan reined in his horse and looked up at Li Su at the head of the city.

sighed before speaking, and said gloomily: "Li Beijia, I thought you were a smart person, and a smart person shouldn't be here at this moment." ”

Li Su smiled: "Don't say it's you, even I always thought I was very smart, but I didn't find out until today that I was not smart." ”

Na Yan tilted his head, looked at Li Su's smile, and said deeply, "Why don't you go?" You know very well that this city can't be defended, what is it for to pay such a big price to defend a city that you know can't be defended? It's not who you are. ”

Li Su pointed to the hundreds of remnants beside him, and said with a smile: "Who told me that these people around me are not smart, stupid this thing may be an infectious disease, I was infected by them, they don't leave, so I don't leave." ”

Na Yan shook his head: "Li Beijia, you and I have known each other for more than a year, aside from our respective masters, you and I should at least be friends, can you say a few sincere words to your friends?" ”

Li Su's smile gradually retracted, he lowered his head to look at Na Yan under the city wall, and said gloomily: "I can't go, too many people have died, and they are all watching me from the sky, to see if I will cowardly turn around and run, I ...... If you can't leave, if you leave, it's better to live than die for the rest of your life. ”

Na Yan sighed silently, hung his head, and couldn't see the expression on his face.

Li Su glanced at the commander of the enemy's military formation in the distance, and suddenly sneered: "That brother, your lord will let you ride alone to the city gate, shouldn't it be so that we can chat and catch up on the old days?" ”

Na Yan raised his head and arched his hand towards the city, saying, "I have come here to ask for something on the orders of the Lord General Amurton......

"Brother, please."

After organizing the wording, Na Yan said slowly: "Xizhou, which was originally the Xizhou of Gaochang Kingdom, Li Beijia, said with arguem, you don't have a reason to defend this city, and it is not worth dying for this city......"

Li Su shook his head and said: "No, Xizhou City is built in the Tang Dynasty's government, and the soldiers in the Tang Guanzhong are guarded, and the officials and people are also Tang people, so this city is the city of the Tang Dynasty." As for whether it was robbed or deliberately planned, that is a matter that the lord of Gaochang and my Emperor of the Tang Dynasty should discuss, and our duty as courtiers is to defend the border for His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Na Yan sighed and said: "Yes, who belongs to Xizhou, that is a matter that the lord of the country and your Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty should discuss, our army lord Amurdun sent me here, I just want to tell you one thing, from the siege to today, Amurdun has been using the method of encircling three queyi, the side that is let go is your vitality, as long as you let Xizhou out, our army will definitely not commit any crimes, and Ren Er will leave......

Li Su's eyes narrowed: "What do you mean by ...... general?"

"As long as you leave and give up the city of Xizhou, Amurton will let you go, and he will swear in the name of the true God that he will not pursue, will not kill, and will give you food and water."

Li Su blinked and said, "Since your lord is so polite, why don't you simply be polite and thorough, and simply withdraw the army and return to China?" ”

Na Yan shook his head and said: "Xizhou, the lord of the kingdom is determined to win, its position is too important, and it must not be controlled by the Tang people." But you, the defenders of the Tang Dynasty, Amurdun doesn't want to embarrass you,...... Saying that he 'doesn't want to', in fact, he doesn't dare, the capture of Xizhou is already regarded as offending His Majesty the Heavenly Khan, if he slaughters his warriors again, Amurdun and the lords of the Western Regions will not be able to afford the thunderous wrath of His Majesty the Heavenly Khan......"

Li Su sneered: "More than 4,000 Brother Pao Ze have already died, and now I don't dare to offend, isn't it too late?" ”

Na Yan shook his head and said very seriously: "It's not too late, war is not the same thing, and peace is not the same thing, His Majesty the Heavenly Khan can understand, but if the countries of the Western Regions kill you completely, it is another matter, and the lords of the countries are unwilling to do it, or rather, they dare not do it." ”

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PS: Happy New Year!! I wish you all a safe and healthy new year. (To be continued.) )