The yellow dust that permeated the air was like thick smoke and dark clouds. The scorching sun in the sky was shrouded in a layer of haze, and the halo was hazy.

Guo Shao stood on the high chariot and saw that the battlefield was in shambles. The cheers after the victory had stopped, leaving behind mottled remnants, overturned and broken vehicles, wooden wheels that fell among the barren grass, bloodstained battle flags planted among the corpses, and the worst of all, corpses everywhere, wounded soldiers in pain......

Guo Shao suddenly remembered a sentence, looked back at the people nearby and said softly: "The most tragic thing in the world besides defeat is victory." ”

Listen, there is a faint singing voice in the wilderness...... The singing gradually began, and more and more soldiers sang along. Guo Shao listened to it and heard the lyrics clearly.

"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son. How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. ...... with the son"

Qin Yin in the Book of Poetry, the melody is tragic and desolate. Singing this voice from the iron and blood, from the soldiers with windy and frosty faces, Guo Shao was immediately moved. "Hey!" Guo Shao slapped his palm heavily on the wooden railing that the Yang family general once held to command the battle, and a complex emotion of heroism and sadness in his heart was like an empowerment.

Wang Pubai said: "Your Majesty loves soldiers like sons, and Your Majesty's ambition is the common ambition of your sons; Your Majesty's heart for the benefit of the people of the world is the heart of 100,000 soldiers of the forbidden army. ”

Zuo You heard Guo Shao talk about dreams, and also said: "The dream of one person, the dream of the world!" ”

The nearby soldiers had already spotted the emperor standing on the chariot and looked sideways.

"Hey!" Guo Shao slapped his palm on the railing again.

The wind in the west did not stop, the smoke and dust that permeated the vast wilderness seemed to be thinned, and a round of delicate scorching sun hung on the blue sky, and the world was unusually bright, and the earth was illuminated with great brilliance.

At this moment, the rough and vast scene is in front of you! Guo Shao seems to be in the barren era of opening up the territory, he is standing on a high place, all the clansmen are looking at him, where will the entire tribe go? He felt that he had to lead all his people to the sun in the east, and never stop chasing a bright future like his father.

Yes, Guo Shao does not belong to this era, but he belongs to this tribe, and he has found a home, fate and destiny here.

This civilization is different from other places, and there is basically no one supreme god from ancient times to the present; But it's not that there are no gods, there are many gods, and those gods come from people who "stand on a high mountain" and raise their arms for the world. At that time, the Yellow Emperor led a tribe to sweep the entire Yellow River basin with stones and wooden sticks, and then expanded to the Yangtze River basin, igniting the fire of civilization. Dayu was in danger, three times through the door without entering, with simple tools to lead the people to govern the water, defend the weak fire. All people have become gods, and the heroic souls living in the hearts of billions of living beings are immortal! If you go into the temple again, you can see that almost all the gods were once people, but they were enshrined in the temple.

At this moment, the young blood is surging in Guo Shao's body, even if the flood floods him, he must let the world hear the cry here. He stood on the high station car, raised his arms and said loudly: "The leader of the clan is to burn himself and illuminate the whole world!" ”

He left the battlefield and arranged for his generals and officials to finish the battle. Then build a temporary camp and convene the ministers to discuss the matter.

The wounded soldiers were treated by hundreds of recruited professional teams, as well as requisitioned state and county citizens to take care of them; The war dead will be embalmed with lime and other things, and the bodies will be transported back to Kaifeng Prefecture...... Guo Shao asked the minister, and after understanding the concept of the world, he gave up the military funeral modeled on modern society, because everyone didn't care about this at all, and it was a waste of money to make it grand in this kind of thing; Most of the soldiers believed that people have souls after death, and there is a netherworld. What they care about is that they become lonely ghosts, and there is no one to burn paper.

Therefore, Guo Shao ordered the soldiers of the forbidden army to be transported back to their hometown for burial, and set up a temple in Beijing to worship every year; Then the family members were given money and food from the state treasury. That's what people need.

Under the planning of Wang Pu, the head of the military staff, the front army was stationed in place for two days, waiting for the follow-up army to come out of the mountain, and then gathered troops to march towards Jinyang; Before the Liao army went south, once the elite of the Great Zhou forbidden army was united, it was an invincible existence in the Northern Han Realm, so according to the original strategy, this group of men and horses would march into the open land in the south of Jinyang City and threaten the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty in advance.

Two days later, all 30,000 troops entered the open land of the Northern Han region, and Guo Shao issued an order to pull out!

"Jinyang!" A shout sounded in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the mighty ironclad infantry rode out of the camp. The ambitions and goals of the Great Zhou are not hidden, and the dreams of the empire are shouting frantically.

The sound of horses' hooves and footsteps was noisy in the open field, and the cloud-like military flags fluttered in the fierce wind. The rumbling drum sound is like a muffled thunder and earth-shattering, and the martial artist has used a thousand years of horizontal blowing to stir up on the horse, which is completely different from the melody of the beautiful tune heard in the carved building and painting, the short orchestral sound, under the accompaniment of the snare drum, in the yellow sand and withered grass-filled battlefield, tragic and inspiring.

The drums roared, and tens of thousands of soldiers sang in unison in the music. "Great Zhou warriors, restore my rivers and mountains. Blood will not be shed, death will not be truce......"

The emperor in iron armor rode out of the camp gate on a tall black horse, and even the old man and civil official Wang Pu also rode a horse, no longer pretending to be elegant and murderous. Behind him, the tall and mighty soldiers drove out like a flood, and the fierce tigers on the military flags glared at the mountains and rivers, as if they were roaring angrily.

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In Jinyang, there are constantly remnants of defeated soldiers who are let in from the city gate, and the defeat on the front line will not be stopped. Zhao Kuangyin stood at the corner of the street on horseback, unable to speak when he looked at this scene.

At this time, a strong wind was blowing, and on the tower of the tall and simple Jinyang City, the leaves and withered grass were flying in the air, and the whole scene was shaky. It was as if such a majestic city was crumbling in the wind.

Although Zhao Kuangyin only has the right to be a few hundred soldiers, the official title he was given also belongs to the forbidden army of the Northern Han Kingdom, and he also knows a lot of people, and at this time he already understands the process of a major war that has just passed...... That's why he was speechless.

Judging from the deployment in the early stage of the campaign and the grasp of the fighters, Yang Ye is undoubtedly a rare good general, and he has the advantage. However, there is always only one outcome of the war, and it is simple and straightforward to see at a glance whether you win or lose.

"The Great Zhou Forbidden Army is too strong!" Zhao Kuangyin said.

Shi Shouxin and the others around him were also from the generals of the Zhou Army's forbidden army, so they echoed it. Li Jixun said: "Among the countries, the Northern Han army is also very strong, but the territory is small and the number is small; This time, it was a bit surprising that it was fought like this with more hits and fewer hits. ”

Zhao Kuangyin's heart was mixed, but his face was too dark, and his face did not change much. The forbidden army that has been developed in the Central Plains for a hundred years is very strong, it originally belonged to itself! His heart is very uncomfortable, in the world, there is an elite can do a lot of things; Not to mention hundreds of thousands! Those people mean infinite possibilities, Zhao Kuangyin feels that he has lost too much, no matter how broad-minded he is, he can't let go.

He turned around and went home.

After some contemplation, Zhao Kuangyin said in a deep voice in the hall: "I'm afraid that this time the Northern Han Kingdom is really going to end, sooner or later." It was also difficult for the Liao army to save them. ”

The atmosphere immediately became heavy. As soon as the Northern Han Dynasty is finished, they will also be finished, and it is obvious that they will be liquidated old accounts.

"Is there a way to go now?" Li Jixun asked.

Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a moment and said: "Our remaining more than 300 horsemen from Jinzhou (the Battle of Pinger Li) are the only remaining strength, but there may be a way to do it." ”

Several generals were silent for a while, and no one said a word for a while. Now Jinyang is heavily guarded everywhere, and Jinyang City has been under martial law; Even if there are only a few people who go out, it is very difficult, with more than 300 people, and if you want to go privately with such a big movement, I am afraid it will be difficult to climb to the sky.

However, if you give up what little capital you have, the situation may be even worse. The current Zhao Kuangyin and others are no longer powerful and powerful, with no territory and no future, who is willing to follow them if they develop new manpower?

Li Jixun said: "Brother Zhao is sure that the Northern Han Kingdom can't withstand this Zhou army's attack? Jinyang City is still very strong......"

Zhao Kuangyin did not answer.

Li Jixun asked again: "Can you find someone with military power to help you through friendship and let us go?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin's expression was ugly: "We have already served the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty and held the Northern Han Dynasty's Yulu, but now the rumors are wrong, and we blatantly ask to escape, how can we say it?" ”

"Alas!" Li Jixun frowned.

Zhao Kuangyin's heart is also very blocked, the future is bleak, and he has had enough of this kind of depression. He said with some annoyance: "Instead of begging someone to let us go, it is better to ask someone to recommend us to be appointed." It's too uncomfortable to sit back and wait for death like this, just have a good time, whether it is death or life, and have a final battle with that Guo Shao! I'd like to try again, just how strong he is! ”