(a)

"Young master, do you have something on your mind?" Wu Shun asked you.

Wu Shun said: "The young master has something in his heart, and others can't see it, but he can't hide it from me." ”

On the night of the fifth day of conquering Jingshui Pass, you and Wu Shun walked slowly along the trail in the suburbs of Jingshui Pass under a round of autumn moon.

Wu Shun looked at you and said: "The southern front is a great victory, Jingshui Pass was finally taken by our army, the king of Han issued a decree to commend and confer a great award, and our army shook the government and the opposition, don't you feel happy?" ”

You say, "So many people have died, even General Lei Shicheng is no longer in this world." Is there anything to be happy about?

Wu Shun looks at you.

You said to him, "Junko, do you remember when we went to the city to meet us, and on the way back, I said that someone wanted to kill me first?" ”

Wu Shun said: "Remember." That person may have been the first person in the world to try to kill you. That person is Lei Shicheng. ”

You say, "yes." However, in the end, he did not put this idea into practice. If he had acted at the time, of course, he would not have killed me. But then everything may have changed because of this. ”

You look at the silhouette of the towering city wall in the night sky in the moonlight.

You say, "We probably won't be standing here tonight, thinking about the roads we've walked, the people we've met, the events that have happened, and the world of the past that has been changed beyond recognition." ”

Wu Shun said: "Young master, let's not go far, it's inconvenient to walk after your leg is injured, it's not as good as before, don't go too far, your leg will hurt." Let's go back. ”

You say, "Let's walk a little longer." ”

You say, "Everyone in the world thinks I like the world of war." But, how I don't want to go into that world again and again. How I longed to leave that world forever and stay in such a moonlit and cool world. ”

You say, "I don't like war at all." Even if I kept beating it, I never liked it. ”

(b)

You turn around and walk back slowly.

Your guards are waiting for you hundreds of meters away, leading their horses.

You walked in silence for a while.

You suddenly say, "She's sick." ”

Wu Shun asked, "Who?" Then he understood.

He said, "Mrs. Jun...... No, is it Miss? However, the letter from King Han to you did not mention this matter. ”

You say, "King Han doesn't want me to worry, he doesn't want me to be distracted." ”

You say, "But I know she's very sick this time, and I can hear her coughing all night." She was sad. Because I passed through Yunzhou, I didn't go into the city to see her. ”

Wu Shun said: "Now, Jingshui Pass has been successfully taken. The young master wrote a letter to the young lady to greet her. After Miss arrived in Yunzhou, you didn't even write a word to her! ”

Wu Shun said: "Even if it's just one line of words." Even if it's only half a line! ”

Wu Shun said: "No matter what you write, as long as you write it, Miss will be cured immediately when she sees it." ”

He said: "After the farewell of Jinfeng Village, the young master neither refused to see the young lady, nor refused to give the young lady a word, so the affection for such a long time was cut off like this. Women are always different from men, women are emotional, nostalgic for the good old days and the people who have warmed her heart in the past. You are so disconnected, how can Miss Zong bear it? The young lady lived alone, in that strange place, besieged in the high palace walls, and there was no hope in sight. How could she not be sick? ”

You shake your head.

You say, "No." I can't write to her. What King Han didn't mention to me, that is, it didn't happen. ”

You say, "We have all been disconnected, and if we break the thread, she will be more painful, and she will be more unwilling to adapt to a new identity, a new life, and a new destiny." She will be nostalgic for the past and will fantasize about the possibility that the future does not exist. If she has such a mentality, the life in Yunzhou will be even more like years for her. ”

You say, "Long pain is better than short pain." She had to adapt, and she was disconnected from it for the rest of her life. If she adapts and accepts it now, she can have a new life. She still has a long life ahead of her to experience the joy of that new life. ”

Wu Shun moved his lips, he wanted to say: "She will not have the happiness of a new life at all, because it is not the life she wants at all!" ”

However, he pursed his lips and suppressed the sentence without saying it to you.

(c)

You say, "Junko, I can't stay so close to her." The closer I get to her, the sadder she feels. The more difficult it will be for her to recover. ”

You say, "We need to go back to the northern front as soon as possible." ”

You say, "Junko, sometimes, we can't do what we want to do." We can only do what we have to do, even if we don't want to. ”

You say, "She'll be healed." I believe in her. She wouldn't be defeated by pain like that. ”

(iv)

When I was sick in Yunzhou, Liu Yan was also sick in Tongcheng. He was scared of you when he was sick.

After capturing Jingshui Pass, you released a captured young noble officer of the Southern Han Dynasty. You ask him to bring a gift back to Liu Yan.

The young officer had just joined the army and had not seen you or recognized you. He only speculated that you should be the new commander of the Northern Han Army.

He fled all the way back to the city with your gifts.

Liu Yan carefully checked the package with suspicion, and then opened the brocade package. Immediately he fell pale and sat down on the throne.

What was presented in front of him was the identical brocade box you gave him after Zhang Fengming's assassination.

The brocade box still contains one of your letters.

Liu Yan's hands trembled so much that he couldn't open the letter.

After helping him take out the letter and unfold it, he saw that you wrote on the letter: "I'm back." Thinking of the grace of the old Han King, this time it is still an empty brocade box. However, don't challenge me again, don't take the initiative to attack us again. Otherwise, your noble head will fall into this box. ”

Liu Yan was frightened sick by your letter like this. He's scared sick from you just like that.

(5)

From that day on, you returned to the southern front, and the news of breaking through Jingshui Pass in one fell swoop quickly spread throughout the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty like wings.

The attack of Liu Shen's army on the southern front became overwhelming.

When some cities were attacked, as soon as they saw the banner of the Northern Han Army, some generals defected and surrendered.

Liu Shen summoned the first Southern Han general who led his troops to surrender, appeased him, and asked him somewhat curiously why he betrayed Liu Yan before the battle.

The general honestly replied: "Because the general is back." The Great General is invincible. Resistance is useless, it's just a matter of dying more. ”

In the following two months, Liu Shen's army marched down to 15 cities on the southern front, seizing large tracts of rich farmland and important passes, and the tide of battle on the southern front was completely reversed.

Just when the Southern Han Dynasty was frightened of you and made the whole country soldiers, you were no longer on the southern front.

You took Wu Shun with you, crossed the increasingly vast territory of Liu Shen, once again passed through Yunzhou without entering, passed by me, and returned to the northern line.