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Chapter 319: Undercurrent (45)

In the barracks of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Teng Leopard Battalion, He Teng Xiao gathered all the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Teng Leopard Battalion who could move. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason why He Tengxiao gathered them was very simple, in order to go out of the city to find the remains of the robes left on the battlefield. Give them a place to return to, and they will not be abandoned in the wilderness.

This is the only thing He Tengxiao can do now besides giving pensions to their families: try to give them a whole corpse and let them die as deservedly.

"If it hadn't happened, I wouldn't have stopped you." Zhang Yuyang stopped He Tengxiao, and now He Tengxiao is on the cusp, and it is obviously inappropriate to go out of the city at this time. It is likely to make the people in Jingshi City suspicious, and more importantly, it is inevitable that some people will fall behind the well and trap the Xiao Cavalry Camp and Teng Leopard Camp in a disadvantageous place.

He Tengxiao didn't say much, and what Zhang Yuyang said was not wrong, on the contrary, what Zhang Yuyang said was very right.

Staying in the barracks honestly and not going there is the wisest choice for He Tengxiao now. But He Tengxiao wouldn't do that.

He Tengxiao did not refute Zhang Yuyang, He Tengxiao made a color towards Changqing and Zhou Shi, and Changqing and Zhou Shi understood. took advantage of Zhang Yuyang's defenselessness to knock Zhang Yuyang unconscious.

After knocking Zhang Yuyang unconscious, He Tengxiao asked people to get a rope and tied Zhang Yuyang tightly like a zongzi.

After doing this, He Tengxiao explained to Tang Jing, the chief military doctor of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion: "Tang military doctor, take care of General Zhang, General Zhang woke up and told General Zhang, I will go back when I go." ”

He Tengxiao reformed the title of medical officer, and there was no title of medical officer in the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and Tengbao Battalion. The original title of medical officer was abolished, and the title was military doctor.

He Tengxiao said it lightly, as if he was not going to fight but to go on an outing on the outskirts of Jingshi City.

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It was twilight again, and the twilight was gradually spreading between heaven and earth.

Wanyan Shengcong, once the Great Khan of the Manshu Clan and now the king of the Liao Empire, was at the peak of his life at this time. I'm afraid that in the future, it will be difficult for Wanyan Shengcong to lead the Manshu clan to do such a big thing.

Looking at the blood-colored remnant sun, Wanyan Shengcong thought of a word of the Han people: the remnant sun is like blood.

This remnant sun really looks as if it has been stained red with blood, as delicate as blood. This word of the Han people is very suitable to describe the current remnant sun, and it is also very suitable for the current artistic conception.

Seeing the blood-colored remnant sun, Wanyan Shengcong suddenly felt that the remnant sun was very beautiful, with a bleak and pathetic beauty. This kind of beauty does not make people happy, but only makes people more sentimental, and they feel more sadness in their hearts.

The remnant sun gradually fell, began to slowly sink below the horizon, and the beauty was fleeting after a brief moment. Looking at the majestic silhouette of Jingshi City under the remnant sun, Wanyan Shengcong couldn't help but recite two lines of poetry.

"The sunset is infinitely good, but it's just near dusk."

Yes, the sunset is beautiful and beautiful, but unfortunately, it is almost dusk, and the sunset is about to sink below the horizon, and I will never see today's sunset again. Thinking of the sunset, Wanyan Shengcong couldn't help but think of himself again.

He himself has a very miserable remnant sun that is not this round, Wanyan Shengcong inherited his father's business when he was young, and he didn't do much. It was only in previous years, when his life was about to come to an end, that Wanyan Shengcong began to shine and established one after another achievements that the ancestors of the Manshu people dreamed of but could not establish.

Even according to Liaodong, the emperor competed with the Great Zhao Empire, which was known as the largest empire in the south, and was in an advantageous position in the confrontation between the two countries. Wanyan Shengcong looked at the capital of the Great Zhao Empire: the majestic silhouette of Jingshi City under the setting sun. Before seeing this magnificent city, Wanyan Shengcong couldn't even believe that there would be such a big city in the world, knowing that he had seen Jingshi City.

After the Liao army surrounded Jingshi City, all the Liao troops, including Wanyan Shengcong, looked at this magnificent city and were amazed by his grandeur. Liaoyang City is big enough in the eyes of these Tubaozi who have never seen the world, Liaoyang City is the capital of the Liao Empire, which also makes these nomadic people from the Manshu tribe who once lived by the water feel proud.

The Manshu people also have their own grand city! After the battle in Liaoyang City, the Manshu people couldn't help but straighten their waists.

But no matter how big Liaoyang City is, it is overshadowed by the Jingshi City in front of him, and it is nothing.

Wanyan Shengcong thought of the scene of the Liao army's bombardment of Jingshi City that day:

On that day, outside the city of Beijing, the Liao gunners calibrated the artillery and adjusted the elevation angle of the artillery. Since the Liao army suffered losses in firearms, the top level of the Liao State began to pay attention to the use of firearms. The Liao army formed and trained its own artillerymen. The artillery of the Liao army is no longer only Han Chinese, but also the Liao army of the Manshu nationality as artillerymen.

At that time, the Liao army used all the artillery it could use, but even so, the fortified city of Jingshi City still stood under the bombardment of all the artillery fire of the Liao army.

At that time, Wanyan Shengcong, who was in disbelief, even vomited blood in anger and fainted.

After recovering from his injury, in these boring days when the Liao army surrounded Jingshi City, in addition to dealing with daily military affairs, Wanyan Shengcong's most frequent thing was to run around Jingshi City on horseback, and while running, he looked at this city that did not belong to him for the time being, and did not belong to his Great Liao Empire.

Now Wanyan Shengcong's greatest wish is to be able to turn this magnificent city in front of him into the capital of the Great Liao Empire! It's a pity that this good wish could not be realized in a short time. For the time being, this wall is still an insurmountable peak.

Wanyan Shengcong had to temporarily choose to give up this city, in order to be able to get it better in the future. Wanyan Shengcong often comforts himself and comforts himself with this sentence, but the more this is the case, the more Wanyan Shengcong's heart feels uncomfortable and unwilling.

You can't take anything away from what is clearly in front of you.

"Why did the emperor have such a sad emotion." Chen Yankai stopped the sunset that Yan Shengcong chanted was infinitely better, but asked after nearly dusk.

Wanyan Shengcong rarely produces this kind of negative emotion, at least Chen Yankai is the first time to see Wanyan Shengcong have such a sad negative emotion.

Chen Yankai remembered that Wan Yan Shengcong used to laugh at Han people who were not only very sour, but also liked to moan without illness. Unexpectedly, Wanyan Shengcong, who laughed at the Han literati at the beginning and moaned without illness, was also like the Han literati at this time, moaning without illness.

"Sir." Wanyan Shengcong called Chen Yankai Mr., they get along in private, when there are no outsiders, Wanyan Shengcong still likes to call Chen Yankai as Mr., of course, Chen Yankai also likes Wanyan Shengcong to call him Mr.

Known as Mr., Chen Yankai has a sense of affirmation and respect.

"Did Li Shangyin feel the same way when he boarded Leyouyuan?" Wanyan Shengcong muttered that ancient Chinese poetry pays great attention to artistic conception, and only in a specific artistic conception can you feel more deeply what kind of emotion triggered the poet to create this poem.

It is only under this specific artistic conception that emotional resonance can be generated.

"This ......" Chen Yankai smiled and said, "This can only be understood by the emperor himself." ”

Wanyan Shengcong looked up to the sky and laughed, laughing very heroically, this is the real Wanyan Shengcong.

"Sir, do you know why I am touching the scene at this time and moaning without illness?" Wanyan Shengcong asked Chen Yankai.

Chen Yankai smiled and said, "The slave listens. ”

Wanyan Shengcong withdrew his gaze from the outline of Jingshi City and said, "I feel that my time is running out. ”

As soon as Chen Yankai heard Yan Shengcong say this, Chen Yankai was frightened, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "The emperor is in good health, and the emperor can live for thousands of years." Where did the emperor say this. ”

Wanyan Shengcong couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Sir, you are so confused, there are very few people who can live for more than a hundred years, let alone ten thousand years?" If I really lived for 10,000 years, wouldn't I have become a monster? ”

"Minions don't dare!" Chen Yankai said with sincere fear, although Cheng Wanyan Shengcong trusted Chen Yankai, but Chen Yankai, as a Hanchen, wanted to gain a firm foothold in a foreign country and a different race, and the difficulties were very bitter and not something that ordinary people could experience.

Although Chen Yankai looks very beautiful on the surface of Liao, the first Hanchen of Liaoguo (to put it bluntly, he is the first traitor of Liao), Zaifu of Liao, the only Han in the high-level of Liao. The Liao Emperor Wanyan Shengcong trusted the Han people the most. The Liao Emperor Wanyan Shengcong relied on the most important minister.

Yes, these names look so beautiful to outsiders. But how many people know the bitterness and loneliness behind his brilliant figure of Chen Yankai?

Ever since he defected to the Manshu tribe. Chen Yankai spent almost every day in battle, not a single night to sleep peacefully, and no meal to eat steadily.

The Han people wanted to kill Chen Yankai a lot, for no other reason, Chen Yankai treason, aided the abuse, helped the barbarians to slaughter the Han people, Chen Yankai's white and pure hands were stained with the blood of the Han people. Chen Yankai rose to power by slaughtering his compatriots to win the favor of the barbarians. In the eyes of the Han people, Chen Yankai, who is a Han Chinese, is more hateful than the Manshu people.

Because Chen Yankai is a Han Chinese, the defection of Han people to the barbarians is treason. What's more, after defecting to the barbarians, he also helped the barbarians deal with the Han people. even helped the barbarians create a barbarian empire that could compete with the Han people.

All that Chen Yankai did was an unforgivable and unforgivable sin in the eyes of his compatriots, the Han people. After Chen Yankai defected to the Liao State, he was assassinated more than 60 times. It is even no exaggeration to say that Chen Yankai's days after defecting to the Liao State were spent in hiding from assassination.

The number of assassinations of Chen Yankai is even several times higher than that of Wan Yan Shengcong. At first, the Great Zhao court did not pay attention to the existence of this Han down-and-out literati, and also felt that a down-and-out literati was because he couldn't get along in Dazhao, had no talent, and failed to pass the imperial examination before defecting to a foreign race, and he couldn't set off any storms and waves in the foreign race. The imperial court also did not attach importance to Chen Yankai.

It wasn't until Chen Yankai repeatedly came up with strange strategies for the Manshu people that he dealt a heavy blow to Zhao Jun again and again. The center of the Great Zhao Empire suddenly woke up to the fact that the extremely down-and-out literati who defected to the Manshu tribe was not without talent and was not a waste. It's a great talent, a great talent who flowed from Da Zhao into the Manshu clan.

But at this time, when he woke up, the center of the Great Zhao Empire obviously woke up too late. Chen Yankai has already gained a firm foothold in the Manshu tribe. Wanyan Shengcong had a feeling of getting a treasure after getting Chen Yankai, just like Liu Bei got Zhuge Liang.

Wanyan Shengcong even said unabashedly in public many times, Mr. is my Zhuge Liang. Yes, Mr., my Manshu people can achieve great things. It can be seen how much Yan Shengcong attaches importance to Chen Yankai, not to mention the treatment that Yan Shengcong gave Chen Yankai.

At this time, the center of the Great Zhao Empire offered a reward for Chen Yankai's head, and the reward caused an uproar as soon as it was announced, and many people were eager to assassinate and obtain Chen Yankai's head. Assassinating Chen Yankai can not only get the reputation of killing traitors and eliminating harm in the name, but also get a generous bounty.

Why not do such a thing of fame and fortune? The bounty is rising, and the assassination of Chen Yankai has become a trend, becoming more and more crazy. Many Assassins regarded the assassination of Chen Yankai as the most challenging assassination, and even many Assassins did not care about money and money, just to be able to successfully assassinate Chen Yankai.

Therefore, for a period of time, Wanyan Shengcong had to take special protective measures against Chen Yankai. The protection of Chen Yankai from assassination by the assassins was even stricter than the protection of Yan Shengcong himself.

Therefore, there are quite a few complaints in the high-level of Liao, thinking that Wanyan Shengcong has done too much, and there is a suspicion of attaching too much importance to Chen Yankai, which is completely unnecessary.

Due to Wanyan Shengcong's attention and strict precautionary measures, Chen Yankai escaped this crazy assassination frenzy of Zhao people, and one after another big Zhao famous assassins fell under the strict protection of Wanyan Shengcong for Chen Yankai.

Since none of the many long assassinations ended in success, in the end, Zhao Guoren gradually gave up assassinating Chen Yankai. Chen Yankai survived his life and survived to this day.

It's not just the people of Zhao who want to assassinate Chen Yankai, but the rest of the barbarian tribesmen also see Chen Yankai as a big threat. None of the barbarian tribes (except for the Manshu themselves) wanted to see the Manshu grow bigger. Pose a threat to the survival of their own people.

Therefore, the rest of the tribes also tried to want Chen Yankai's life on the contrary. But Chen Yankai is very tenacious and has been strong to this day.

Of course, what frightened Chen Yankai the most was not these assassinations from the outside, but the rejection of the high-ranking Manshu nobles of the Manshu tribe itself.

These high-level Manshu people are not used to seeing a Han person living so well in Liao, and they are very prosperous. At the same time, he also questioned the loyalty of a Zhao person to serve the Manshu people, and many of them, the old nobles of the Manshu clan even wondered if Chen Yankai was committed to serving the Manshu clan and whether serving Yan Shengcong had some unknown ulterior motives.

If Wanyan Shengcong was a suspicious king, I don't know how many times Chen Yankai would have been killed and injured. Fortunately, Wanyan Shengcong is not the kind of suspicious king, but the ideal monarch in Chen Yankai's heart, open-minded, not suspicious of people, and studious, advocating Central Plains culture.

At that time, it can be said that it was very rare for the Manshu people, who were still drinking blood.

It is no exaggeration to say that although Wanyan Shengcong was a barbarian monarch, Wanyan Shengcong was even better than many monarchs of Dazhao at that time. Sometimes Chen Yankai couldn't help but secretly hate: why is Wanyan Shengcong the king of barbarians and not the king of the Great Zhao Dynasty of the Central Plains.

It would be great if the Central Plains Great Zhao could produce such a monarch. Of course, this is just the opposite of Chen Yankai's wishful thinking, Wanyan Shengcong is still the king of the barbarian Manshu clan after all, not the king of the Great Zhao Dynasty. Although Wanyan Shengcong has the ambition to replace the Great Zhao Dynasty. But there's still quite a long way to go.

It takes many generations of hard work to be able to do it, not that after one generation, two generations of monarchs can accomplish such a great feat.

The foundation of the Manshu clan is too thin, and you want to achieve a glorious industry that shocks the world and shines through the ages. The Manshu people must carry out long-term accumulation of national strength. Otherwise everything is empty talk and meaningless.

Wanyan Shengcong is now in the stage of accumulating national strength, and everything Wanyan Shengcong is doing now is to pave the way for future generations and lay a solid foundation for the future hegemony of the Manshu people.

But what Wanyan Shengcong wanted more was that in his hands, the Liao Empire could enter the Central Plains and replace the Great Zhao Dynasty. This is the biggest ideal of Wanyan Shengcong in this life, and if this ideal is realized, even if it is only for a second, Wanyan Shengcong feels that he has no regrets when he dies.

It's just that the reality is quite cruel, Chen Yankai told Wan Yan Shengcong that unless there is an excellent opportunity, this excellent time is the earth-shaking changes within the Great Zhao Empire. The Liao Empire had the hope of replacing the Great Zhao Dynasty and completing its hegemony in the Central Plains.

Because the foundation of the Liao Empire is very weak and there is no ability to digest the Central Plains Dynasty, although Da Zhao is weak and the rivers are declining, but in front of the Liao Empire, Da Zhao is still a behemoth. How difficult it was for the young Liao Empire to annex this boss monster. You can only slowly accumulate strength and wait until the day when the strength is enough to annex the Great Zhao Empire.

"Get up." Wanyan Shengcong spoke very gently to Chen Yankai, "What I hate the most is that you kneel down at every turn like this, saying that you are guilty, I just speak by myself, and anything I say has nothing to do with you, don't always be guilty." ”

Wanyan Shengcong's tone contained resentment.

Chen Yankai stood up with the support of Wan Yan Shengcong. After arriving in the Manshu tribe, Chen Yankai is still accustomed to the dress of the Han people, and he is not used to the dress of the Manshu people, of course, Chen Yankai's dislike of the ugly clothing of the Manshu people is also a reason.

The clothing of the Manshu people has a strong nomadic characteristics, and Chen Yankai always feels that he has become a bit of a savage after the clothing of the Manshu people on the boat.

Therefore, Chen Yankai still insisted on wearing Han costumes. Chen Yankai's wide Confucian shirt fluttered in the winter evening breeze.

"Sometimes I wonder how short life is." Wanyan Shengcong does not believe in the theory of immortality. But Wanyan Shengcong also lamented the shortness of life, only a few short decades, decades of time are fleeting, and sometimes before he has recalled what he has done in his life, his hair has turned gray, and his time is short.

Wanyan Shengcong is such a person, after vomiting blood under Jingshi City that day, Wanyan Shengcong already felt that his body was getting worse and worse. In front of outsiders, Wan Yan Shengcong still wants to do what he should do as usual, and outsiders can't notice anything wrong with Wan Yan Shengcong's body, but the body is his own, and outsiders don't know, but Wan Yan Shengcong himself knows very well what kind of condition his body is.

Since he became the Great Khan for all these years, Wanyan Shengcong has worked day and night, and in his early years, he still spent in the military camp, and Wanyan Shengcong's body has been overdrawn to a large extent.

Wanyan Shengcong didn't dare to fall, he kept gritting his teeth and insisting, Wanyan Shengcong knew very well that once he fell, the entire Liao army would also fall, which was the last thing he wanted to happen. He can fall after Yan Shengcong, but in the Great Liao Empire, the Manshu people must not fall, is this, how many generations of hard work and struggle of the Manshu people have gone through to get to today's situation! The Manshu people, the Great Liao Empire must not fall.

"Life is like a white horse, Shaohua is white, it is just a fleeting thing, and there is no need for the emperor to be sad about it." Chen Yankai under the evening breeze was fluttering, like a hermit out of the mountain. At this time, Chen Yankai said such a profound sentence again, Chen Yankai simply did not look like the first assistant of a country, but like a free and elegant hermit.

"I wonder why God is so unfair, if I only have another twenty years, I will be able to lead the Manshu people into the Central Plains and realize the hegemony that my ancestors have dreamed of for hundreds of years." The more Wanyan Shengcong said that his emotions became more and more excited, and Wanyan Shengcong's always strong body actually began to tremble, "It's just that God is so unfair, I haven't been given it for these twenty years...... I...... I...... I'm afraid that I won't be able to see the day when my Manshu clan enters the Central Plains in my lifetime...... Yes...... Burst. ”

After Yan Shengcong vomited blood again, Chen Yankai noticed that the blood that Yan Shengcong vomited this time was much darker than the last time, almost dark red.

"Your Majesty." Chen Yankai now finally understands why Wan Yan Shengcong is making such a sigh today, after Wan Yan Shengcong has worked for the Manshu clan for decades, this generation of male lords is finally tired, and his body has been overdrawn to the limit. I'm afraid that after Yan Shengcong sits back, the days of the king of the Great Liao Empire will not be long.

At this moment, Chen Yankai finally understood why Wanyan Shengcong insisted on going out in person at an advanced age despite the opposition of the high-level of the Liao State, despite the opposition of the high-level of the Liao State! Wan Yan Shengcong was afraid that after missing this opportunity to go on an expedition, he would never have the opportunity to see what the Central Plains was like in the future. What the world of Kannai is like.

At this moment, Chen Yankai also understood why Wanyan Shengcong saw that the artillery of the Liao army could not cause damage to the deep walls of Jingshi City. Why did Yan Shengcong vomit blood and fall to the ground.

Wanyan Shengcong felt regretful and unwilling to see that his lifelong ideals were not proudly realized in his lifetime! What a king! Chen Yankai feels very honored to be able to serve such a king in this life, and feels that he has no regrets in this life, even if it is a few decades of frightened days and walking on thin ice, it is worth it!

In this life, I can serve the king like Yan Shengcong, what a regret!

"Your Majesty!" Chen Yankai choked and helped Wan Yan Shengcong, today Wan Yan Shengcong wanted to come out alone and be quiet, the guards were scattered around, and there was no longer around, Wan Yan Shengcong's side was Chen Yankai alone at this time.

Chen Yankai wanted to take Wan Yan Shengcong to see the imperial doctor of the army, but Wan Yan Shengcong waved his hand and stopped Chen Yankai, Wan Yan Shengcong didn't want to alarm other people. The less people know about this kind of thing, the better.

After vomiting a mouthful of dark red blood, Chen Yankai seemed to feel much better. pushed Chen Yankai away and walked as usual; Come on, I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

Chen Yankai understands that Yan Shengcong is finishing, and Yan Shengcong is holding on. Chen Yankai calculated that it was time to end this war as soon as possible and return to Liaodong, Wan Yan Shengcong's physical condition was already not optimistic, if Wan Yan Shengcong died on the way to the war, Chen Yankai couldn't think about what kind of consequences would be.

"I came out of you today, first, I want to take a final look at Jingshi City." Chen Yankai's gaze turned to the Jingshi City not far away again, the twilight had gradually dispersed between heaven and earth, and now when he looked at the Jingshi City, he could only see the faint outline of the Jingshi City, and beyond that, he couldn't see anything else.

But even if it's just this outline, Wanyan Shengcong is quite satisfied. This is the first time Wanyan Shengcong has seen Jingshi City in his life, and I am afraid it is also the last time Wanyan Shengcong has seen Jingshi City in his life.

"Also, I want to talk to you alone." Wan Yan Shengcong said.

Chen Yankai is not stupid, since Wanyan Shengcong has said this, Chen Yankai already knows what Wanyan Shengcong is going to say. There's no need to say it bluntly anymore.

"The minion is still the same sentence, and the minion listens to it." Chen Yankai's eyes are very blurry, and Wanyan Shengcong talks about this kind of thing with him alone, which shows the depth of Wanyan Shengcong's trust and reliance on him Chen Yankai.

Wanyan Shengcong treats Chen Yankai as a minister who supports orphans. Since ancient times, there have been many examples of kings entrusting their ministers to important ministers, but it is indeed rare to entrust a courtier from a foreign country, especially from an empire.

Chen Yankai was a little grateful, and felt that he had done his best to die.

"Do you think that among so many princes, who among the princes can take over my Great Liao Empire from me, or in whose hands will the Great Liao Empire go better and go further?" Wanyan Shengcong asked Chen Yankai directly.

Chen Yankai knew that Wanyan Shengcong actually had a candidate in his heart, but Wanyan Shengcong hoped that this candidate would come out of Chen Yankai's mouth.

Chen Yankai bowed to Wanyan Shengcong and said, "Whoever the emperor thinks is the most suitable, he will be the most suitable." ”

Wanyan Shengcong glared at Chen Yankai angrily, this Chen Yankai is not talking nonsense. , this sentence is said and not said.

. (To be continued.) )