Zhang Wang saw that Lan Ziyi's eyes had regained some looks, and he knew that he had come back to his senses, so he looked at his mouth and asked:

"Wei Hou, Qi Hou, have you two eaten two legs of sheep?"

After Lan Ziyi cried, he felt that he had an indescribable sense of relief in his heart, and the evil aura that had been blocking his heart for the past two days seemed to have dissipated a lot, Lan Ziyi originally felt that he was separated from the outside world by a layer of transparent mist, but now he felt that he had floated up from the bottom of the water, and he breathed so much.

Originally, Lan Ziyi felt half a beat slow when he saw everything, and all the sounds he heard came to his mind with a vague sense of being in a different world, and when he cried out, these two feelings were reduced a lot, although the world in his eyes was still slowed down, but Lan Ziyi could finally catch up with the rhythm, after the memory flashed and ebbed in the past, Lan Ziyi felt that this situation would not occur for a period of time in the future, and he couldn't say why, but he just felt this way,

When Lan Ziyi heard Zhang Wang say the word "two-legged sheep", he tried to search for the word in his mind, but unfortunately he had not heard of any "two-legged sheep"

Lan Ziyi looked at Qi Rongxun again, only to see that Qi Rongxun's face was obviously stunned when he heard this word, and then he shook his head in disgust to indicate that he had not eaten this thing.

Lan Ziyi looked at Qi Rongxun's unhappy face, and knew that the "two-legged sheep" in Zhang Wang's mouth was definitely not a good thing, but no matter what it was, if Lan Ziyi didn't know, he would never understand how bad it was.

So Lan Ziyi opened his mouth and asked:

"Captain Zhang, what are these two sheep you are talking about?"

Zhang Wang took a bite of food, drank another glass of wine, and smiled slightly when he heard Lan Ziyi's question,

Zhang Wang did not directly answer Lan Ziyi's question, he put down his chopsticks and said to himself:

"I want to look forward to becoming famous in the Western Army in this life, and being able to enter Beijing as a lieutenant is because of the military exploits accumulated by the expedition to the Gaoshan people back then, do the two marquis know how difficult it was for the Gaoshan people back then?"

When Lan Ziyi heard Zhang Wang's words, he remembered that when he went to discuss with Zhang Wang the day before the expedition, Zhang Wang mentioned that the Gaoshan people lived on the plateau, and the Taisho soldiers couldn't even pick up a knife when they went to that kind of place, let alone fight against the Gaoshan people.

Qi Rongxun also replied when he heard Zhang Wang's question:

"I heard that the Gaoshan people were condescending back then, and it was very terrible to attack along the mountain pass with one horseman, Tianfu and Qiangdong were on guard day and night, and the gate of the western pass did not dare to open during the day, and the imperial court allocated millions of taels of silver every year could only barely support the western army to defend against the Gaoshan people."

Zhang Wang smiled and nodded, and said:

"Qi Hou is right, the annual imperial court appropriation of millions is only barely enough, the soldiers' salaries and silver account for a part, the pension of the fallen soldiers is a reverse, the purchase of armor equipment also costs silver, and it costs silver to repair the city, I spent the days of the Western Army on the mountain passes are also repaired day and night, those passes are all built on the canyon mountainside, and all the bricks needed to be built need to be pulled up from the plain, and the mules and horses can no longer go up when they are halfway, and finally they can only rely on people to carry them up. The stone is sufficient, all over the mountain, but the cliffs, want to mine the stone is easy to talk about, every time the quarrying is dead, but there is no way to mine. “

Speaking of this, Zhang Wangchang sighed, he closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, Qi Rongxun watched Zhang Wang quietly from the seat, Lan Ziyi was also attracted by Zhang Wang's story, and his spirit was unconsciously concentrated.

Zhang Wang thought for a moment and then said:

"So I'm going to write to the imperial court, and I'm going to the imperial court to ask for a westward expedition, if I don't go west, Taisho will be dragged to death by the mountain people in the west, and we must solve them once and for all.

But can I think of the Western Expedition, could the founding fathers of the Dynasty not think of the Western Expedition? When the Taizheng army entered Tianfu, it had driven away the mountain people who had stolen the plains, and pursued the plateau by victory, only to know that the difference between the two places was huge when they arrived on the mountain, and more than 100,000 soldiers could not lift their swords, so they were buried in the wilderness in vain, and after nearly two hundred years, when I went to the plateau again, I could still see the white bones left by the ancient battlefield. “

These things Zhang Wang said were very heavy, and from Zhang Wang's tone, you could hear his sighs and condolences to his predecessors from time to time.

However, Zhang Wang's expression did not change, he still smiled, kept picking up vegetables for himself, and ate happily.

Zhang Wang continued:

"Back then, I wanted to go west, the north and the Lan Lao Tartars tug-of-war with each other, and they were fighting day and day, the pirates in the east were overflowing, and the coastal roads were plundered at both ends in three days, and even the outside of the capital was invaded by pirates, and Qi Rongxun had just inherited the title, and had not yet started the southern and northern wars, the imperial court had to use soldiers everywhere back then, and there was no extra money allocated to me, I made careful calculations every year, and squeezed out some of the military salaries allocated to me by the imperial court to save it from between my teeth, and it took several years to make up enough money for the First World War, In the end, it was also me who patted the imperial court and did not spend a penny for the imperial court to let me go west, if the imperial court was willing to allocate money to me like last year, which battle would be much easier. “

Lan Ziyi heard Zhang Wang say so much but had nothing to do with the two-legged sheep, and felt confused, so he asked:

"Didn't Taiwei Zhang say two-legged sheep? Why do you keep mentioning your expedition to the west? ”

Zhang Wang listened to Lan Ziyi's question, smiled, and said:

"Because I'm a two-legged sheep on the way to the west!"

Qi Rongxun sighed and lowered his head when he heard this, while Lan Ziyi frowned and looked at Zhang Wang, waiting for him to understand,

Zhang Wang drank another glass of wine and said:

"I made a lot of preparations for going to the plateau at that time, and the soldiers who went up the mountain were all soldiers who had been stationed in the western pass for a long time, although the number was small, they were not afraid of the discomfort of going up the mountain, and I was also well equipped with cattle and horses, according to my calculations, even if I didn't use the Tianfu Road to send grain up, I could walk thousands of miles.

I thought I had done everything I could, but I didn't expect all the preparations to fuck as soon as I got up the mountain. Although there is a lot of baggage, but the mountain road is dangerous, the cattle and horses can not pull up after a few steps, and they can't catch up with the knife and pierce the buttocks, so I have to order the soldiers to lift the weight on the cattle to their shoulders, but in doing so, there is a big problem, the breath on the plateau is too thin, and the lungs are over. “

Hearing this, Qi Rongxun asked:

"Lungs? What happened to the lungs? ”

Zhang Wang said that the chopsticks in his hand paused for a moment, and after hearing Qi Rongxun's question, he replied:

"If you exert force on the plateau, water will accumulate in your lungs."

Seeing Qi Rongxun and Lan Ziyi looking at themselves with their mouths grown, Zhang Wang continued:

"I also went up to the plateau and walked for a long time before I found out that there is such a thing, exerting force or inhaling snow and other debris into the lungs will cause illness, at first just coughing, slowly spitting, poor breathing, chest pain, heart and mouth pain, can't lie down, lying down is uncomfortable to death, want to sleep can only sit, and then people can't move.

After discovering this situation in the army, I have let my soldiers carry heavy loads for a long time, and many of the non-sturdy sergeants have been hit, although I abandoned the baggage after discovering the problem, and did not let the sergeants continue to carry it, but the soldiers who have been recruited have no choice.

I spent a lot of money to win the opportunity to go on an expedition, I didn't expect to just go up the mountain and not walk a few steps to encounter such a big difficulty, I don't want to go down the mountain like this, at this time going down the mountain to be questioned by the court is a trivial matter, I am unwilling is the most important thing. I ordered the soldiers to bring enough dry food to continue to move forward, but how can the food be enough, walking for several days the dry food has been eaten, but not even a village of the mountain people can not be seen, at this time I and my soldiers killed the horses that followed, we can only eat raw food if we can't find anything to make a fire, but when the horse meat is eaten up, I still haven't seen where the city of the mountain people is, and at this time it is impossible to retreat. “

Lan Ziyi suddenly realized in his heart when he heard this, he understood what the two-legged sheep Zhang Wang was talking about, he wanted Zhang Wang to stop, but Zhang Wang said that he was emotional, and he said quickly:

"You ask me what a two-legged sheep is, and I tell you what it is.

In the distance when I was about to reach the capital of the mountain people, I could not advance or retreat, I had no food and no help, I made an agreement with my soldiers that whoever fell on the road would take their corpses to eat, and those soldiers who were taken up the mountain by me, and whose lungs were waterlogged because of my orders, walked with me the day before, and the next day they were eaten by me and others because they could not walk, and you only saw the many captives and the cattle and sheep treasures that I brought down the mountain from the plateau in triumph, when have you ever seen me eat human flesh with other soldiers in the snow? “

Zhang Wang said here and slapped the table suddenly, his eyes were round, and the momentum was violent, Lan Ziyi and Qi Rongxun suddenly felt the anger in Zhang Wang's heart and the surging momentum that he had trained in a hundred battles, and the two young men unconsciously bowed back and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Zhang Wang took a breath after saying this, he closed his eyes as if he was thinking deeply, and after opening his eyes, he picked up the chopsticks and picked up the vegetables, not at all uncomfortable, as if the things he just said did not affect him.

Lan Ziyi looked at the non-stop eating, and remembered what Zhang Wang said about eating human flesh just now, and his stomach was tumbling,

Zhang Wang put on the smile he had always put on his face, and said slowly:

"Wei Hou, I've seen you like this, I've even experienced it, you've seen those siblings die like cattle, in exchange for a life that you don't know if it's meaningless, you can't bear this burden, you can't figure out whether your life is meaningful, so you put yourself in a cage that doesn't die or live, and you look for a little comfort you can get by locking up the corners there, but I want to tell you, it's vain."

Zhang Wang's voice was not loud, but his words roared into Lan Ziyi's ears like a bell, shattering all the mist that shrouded his heart, Lan Ziyi shivered from the spine, he closed his eyes and burst into tears, and said:

"But they died, I'm still alive, and I survived by stepping on their corpses."

When Zhang Wang heard Lan Ziyi's words, he suddenly raised his head and stared at Lan Ziyi, and said:

"Just because you are alive, you have to live for those brothers who died for you, you only have a meaningful life, and they can only be meaningful if they die, otherwise they will really die in vain."

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