Xiao Fan is just a mortal, he can't change too much history, he can only do what he can do to his ability.

Some people have been mediocre all their lives, doing nothing, from birth to old age, living a confused, ordinary and inconspicuous, rushing for a livelihood all their lives, occasionally a little Q-style small happiness in the hardships, this little happiness may be the only source of power that can support themselves in a difficult life to continue to be busy. As for the beliefs and meaning of life, no one has thought of these extravagant questions at all.

What is Belief? To live, and to have a good hope, this is the belief of ordinary people, very vulgar, but no one has the right to laugh at this vulgarity. The vast majority of people in the world are just ordinary people, and it is impossible for them to pretend to be home and country in their hearts.

What about Xiao Fan's beliefs?

To this day, he holds great power, especially in the special position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, which can be said to be the most powerful department in the entire Great Tomorrow, such a prominent position brings him an endless dazzling aura At the same time, what does he need to do?

He needs to keep this aura, he needs to have everything he already has forever, his wife, his family, his friends...... He prefers that his friend can be an emperor happily on the throne of the emperor for a lifetime, instead of ending up in the end of the world without a trace...... Each belief is different, this is Xiao Fan's belief, it is not great, but he is very persistent and has no regrets.

Therefore, Xiao Fan participated in this war.

Civilization is always accompanied by war, constantly destroyed, rebuilt, history is a page of war stories that change dynasties, repeatedly, never stopping.

Xiao Fan is very disgusted with it, life and death, you can see it with a knife head-on, this is war, it is like a monster, with a hideous mouth, devouring all living beings. Xiao Fan hated it, even feared it, but he had to participate in it.

The belief that does not pay the price is worthless, it cannot be called faith, Xiao Fan is now paying for his belief, and the price is very high, maybe his own life.

The team of 3,000 people galloped on the endless grassland, which seemed very small.

The morning breeze of the prairie was cold and cold, mixed with a little dust, and it hurt everyone's face.

It was indeed a very humiliating thing to be chased by hundreds of naked men for dozens of miles, which directly led to the low morale of the soldiers, and everyone had a look of surprise on their faces, followed Xiao Fan with a frown, and marched all the way to the north.

Xiao Fan also felt very embarrassed, but he had a very commendable strength, embarrassing things, unhappy things, and face-losing things, which were forgotten in a blink of an eye, and never left any trace in his mind.

After a period of sluggish and silent marching, Xiao Fan quickly regained his good mood.

Stealing hundreds of sheep and hundreds of clothes, this is a victory! Why not be happy? What's there to be ashamed of? What about being hunted down by naked men? Didn't you catch up? It's also a victory...... How can there be an army that has won a battle and is still so depressed?

In fact, if you are a human being, if you are shameless, you must be very happy to live...... Ancient people were so hypocritical, I don't know what to say!

"Brother Xiao, we have been walking for two days, and we are getting closer and closer to leaving Pingfu, that is to say, we may encounter the 50,000 army of Tartars at any time, how should we deal with it at that time?" Cao Yi's expression gradually became a little anxious.

Xiao Fan shook his head and said: "To be honest, I really haven't come up with a way, it's the strength to fight the war, there are not so many opportunistic tricks, we have 3,000 people against 50,000 Tartars, no matter how we deal with it, it is to hit the stone with an egg, this battle is very difficult to fight, maybe ...... Maybe we'll be wiped out......"

Xiao Fan said and spoke, his expression became gloomy, I don't know if it was for himself, or for the three thousand fresh and young lives behind him.

Cao Yi was silent for a while, and sighed: "Going to the battlefield is equivalent to pinning your head into your belt, fighting a war is a matter of life, and it is too common to die in battle...... We are all born bitter, rotten life, death is death, it's not a big deal, but you...... Alas! Brother Xiao, you really shouldn't have come, you are already an important minister in the court at such a young age, a commander with great power, and a Cheng Yibo who was the emperor of the first emperor, a great future and power are waiting for you, but you ran to this vast grassland with us to die......"

Xiao Fan smiled and said: "I don't want to come either, there's no way, King Yan's eyes are too sharp, and he can't hide it from him if he pretends to be faint and sick...... Actually, among the 3,000 of us, I am the most afraid of death. ”

Cao Yi looked at him deeply and said, "I'm afraid you didn't come to the grassland just because the situation forced you, right?" I know a little bit about the situation at that time, you are Qincha, even if King Yan forces you with power, with your identity, you can still push it, when King Yan's objection has not yet been put on the surface, he will not dare to do anything to you, otherwise he will make trouble for himself. ――Why do you have to go to the steppe with the army? ”

Xiao Fan sighed and said, "Maybe it's me who is cheap......"

Cao Yi stared at him puzzled.

Xiao Fan turned his head to look at Cao Yi and said, "Brother Cao, have you ever thought about what our tomorrow will be like in a year's time?" ”

Cao Yi scratched his head and said, "A year later? Hehe, I haven't even thought about what it will be like in a month, and when I enter this grassland, I will treat myself as dead, and I will earn it by living one more day. ”

Xiao Fan said with a serious expression: "I have thought about it, I often think about this question......"

"And what will we be like in a year?"

Xiao Fan raised his head, looked at a few white clouds floating in the blue sky, pondered for a while, and said, "A year later, maybe...... King Yan has rebelled, the kings are from Jing, the court mobilized a large army, encircled and suppressed the rebellion of King Yan, although the number of the imperial army is superior, but the army is used to the peace, twilight is gradually rising, the combat power is low, and more importantly, there is no one who can command the battle, this counterinsurgency war will be fought very hard, and even will gradually lose its advantage, become very passive, perhaps...... In the end of the war, it was occupied by the originally disadvantaged King Yan, usurped the throne, and the unrighteous vassal king finally crowned the monkey, facing the south and the north, and our Son of Heaven was finally taken advantage of by the emperor's uncle, burning the palace, and ending up in a ...... of death."

Cao Yi opened his mouth wide, his eyes were as big as bells, and he stared at Xiao Fan in disbelief, with a white expression of hell.

"You...... How do you know? Do you know so much? Cao Yi was shocked.

Xiao Fan smiled bitterly, how do I know? In another 600 years, everyone in the world will know about it.

Cao Yi stayed for a while, then suddenly realized, leaned into Xiao Fan's ear and said mysteriously: "...... Did your master calculate the hexagram? ”

“…… To "

Cao Yi suddenly looked in awe: "The old immortal Dao method is brilliant and unfathomable!" ”

Xiao Fan: "............"

There's really no way to explain this!

Cao Yi was worried again: "The old immortal really calculated that King Yan would eventually usurp the country? ”

Xiao Fan said: "Actually...... I figured it out. ”

Cao Yi's expression immediately relaxed, and he let out a contemptuous cold snort from his nostrils with disdain.

Xiao Fan had no choice but to change his words: "Okay, it's my master who calculated it." ”

Cao Yi suddenly became nervous again.

Xiao Fan: "............"

Am I that untrustworthy?

Cao Yi thought for a while and said, "But...... What does this have to do with the fact that you came to the steppe to fight the Tartars? ”

Xiao Fan sighed and said: "There are no generals available in the court, I am the most trusted minister of the Son of Heaven, if King Yan is opposed, do you think I can stay out of the matter?" Since I can't stay out of the matter, before he rebelled, I had to go to the battlefield to see, at least let me, a person who has never fought a war, understand what war is all about, otherwise in the future, when things come, won't I become Zhao Kuo who can only talk on paper? It's not a pity to mistake my surname, and I mistook the country of the Son of Heaven, how can I be worthy of him? ”

Cao Yi suddenly looked at him with admiration, and said: "It turns out that you are willing to go into the grassland to deal with the Tartars, not completely forced by King Yan, you also have your own plans." ”

Xiao Fan nodded, and then smiled dryly: "Of course,...... Pretending to be dizzy is also one of the reasons, in fact, you may be able to win the battle by trying your luck on paper......"

Cao Yi said with a dark face: "...... If you give you a pole, you don't know how to climb up. ”

In the days that followed, there was an inexplicable increase in the grassland with thousands of robbers.

This group of robbers was very despicable, and when they encountered a slightly larger tribe, they avoided it far away, and Qiu did not commit any crimes. When encountering a weak tribe, they rushed up, like beating water dogs, rushed into the tribe to kill sheep and cattle, even sheep shepherd dogs, and if they encountered resistance, they unceremoniously hunted with arrows.

However, this group of robbers is very particular, only robbing cattle and sheep, not women, robbing and running, and in the blink of an eye, there is no shadow, coming and going like the wind, simply neat.

This news made the small Tartar tribe outside the gate panic, what kind of robbers are they, and how many hungry meals have they had?

Regardless of whether the news is true or not, the Tartars of the small tribe dare not be careless, it is not easy to survive these years, fighting with the sky, fighting with the earth, and fighting with people, black disasters and white disasters [***], will bring them the blow of destruction.

So the small tribes of the Tartars hurriedly began to contact and pass on the news, and several small tribes that were close to the grazing temporarily joined together, forming a temporary alliance of surnames to resist the robbery.

There is an eerie and panicked atmosphere in the calm grassland.

Xiao Fan didn't notice this. His view of right and wrong is very weak, in his opinion, robbing a few cattle and sheep is a very ordinary trivial matter, no big deal, in line with the principle of humanitarianism, their robbery can only be regarded as a slightly violent emergency in the rivers and lakes, -- who eats crabs and can't borrow a little vinegar?

It's just borrowing something, can it be called robbery? Make a mountain out of a molehill!

On the vast grassland, a group of 3,000 soldiers and horses galloped north.

"I said, how many cattle and sheep are we going to rob? The brothers are running out of horses, and on average, the cattle and sheep we have grabbed now are enough for the brothers to feed for more than two months...... Are you here to fight or to rob? Cao Yi said with a bitter face.

Xiao Fan was taken aback: "So much?" Iniquity......"

Cao Yi is full of black lines: "It is indeed a ...... of evil"

Xiao Fan said embarrassedly: "I used to be hungry and scared when I was in Jiangpu, and I was very insecure without food......

Cao Yi sighed: "Now it's the turn of the Tartars to be insecure......"

"Shall we ...... Don't rob it? ”

"If you don't rob it, if you rob it again, the brothers will die ......"

Xiao Fan smacked his lips unsatisfactorily: "Okay, then don't rob it." ”

After three more days, the scouts in front brought an astonishing news, the Tartar army of 50,000 had captured Kaiping Mansion ten days ago, the Kaiping Wei Qianhu Liu Fu and the soldiers under his command, as well as the Kaiping prefect Zhou Zushan were martyred, his feelings were heroic, after the Kaiping City was broken, the people were slaughtered countless by the Tartars, the Tartars slaughtered the city in the city for a whole day, they killed people and set fire to the city, burned and plundered, robbed property and women, and the small Kaiping Mansion was as miserable and desolate as hell on earth.

Now the Tartars, under the leadership of Gui Lichi, are marching rapidly to the south, and yesterday they have been stationed hundreds of miles away from Pingfu, and the next move is to open to Yanqing or Shanhaiguan, which is still unclear.

Xiao Fan was deeply shocked by the news.

He has always known that war is cruel, but "cruelty" used to be just two words written in books, and now he finally realized the true meaning of cruelty, which is a kind of pain that burns directly on the tip of his heart with a soldering iron, and he cannot describe this kind of anger and hatred that goes deep into the bone marrow in words.

In troubled times, life is not as good as dogs, and the Han people in a city were slaughtered and trampled by the Tartars like this, isn't their life their life? Zhu Di, you introduced the Tartars into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, calculating left and right, have you ever counted these innocent Han people? It is righteous for you to kill the Tartars, but do these people deserve to die?

Zhu Di, you have done a great job!

"My lord! Dog Tartar is so bad as my Ming people, let's fight with them! ”

"That's right! Fight with them! Anyway, when Lao Tzu entered this grassland, he didn't plan to go back alive! ”

"My lord, my subordinates, please fight!"

"Subordinates, please fight!"

“…………”

“…………”

Facing the angry red eyes and distorted faces of the soldiers, Xiao Fan felt that his mind was completely empty at this moment, and he was stunned for a long time before he trembled his lips and said in a trembling voice: "Now...... All soldiers, dismount! ”

As soon as the soldiers were relieved, they immediately dismounted according to their words.

Xiao Fan said in a hoarse voice: "Pull out your knife!" ”

Boom!

A snow-bright sword light pointed straight to the sky.

Xiao Fan was silent for a while, and suddenly roared like thunder: "We swear to take revenge!" To sacrifice the spirit of Kaiping's father and elder in the sky! ”

All the soldiers seemed to be ignited with blood, and shouted with Xiao Fan: "Swear to avenge this!" Kill all the Tartars! ”

"Take revenge! Kill all the Tartars! ”

The high-pitched and angry oath echoed and spread in the grassland, and the sound reached nine nights, like a consolation to the thousands of fathers and elders who died innocently...... Looking at the young and angry faces in front of him, as well as the deafening roar, Xiao Fan's eyes suddenly surged with a layer of hazy mist, and a seed called hatred awakened and sprouted in his heart.

He suddenly found that he had one more responsibility and meaning to live in this strange world.

Since ancient times, wars have been repeated with the course of history, and the cycle is endless.

So, do your own thing to end this cycle of pain for countless people!

(To be continued)