PS: The most absurd thing about war is that a mother's son killed the son of another mother in an inexplicable place; The husband of one wife, in a distant wilderness, shot and killed the husband of another wife. Everyone slashes and kills each other like this because they are given the title of soldiers, and once a person becomes a soldier, he is no longer a human being, but a marionette, and can only obey orders. A man called a general drove thousands of troops and horses to sell his head, even if it was sold very cheaply, everyone sold it. After selling, if there is a victory, the dead are buried, and the general counts the money. Take off your armor, and everyone has the same emotions and desires to eat and drink Lazar; Put on the armor, you and I are mortal enemies who can only live one of them. But think about it carefully, if it weren't for the emperor's big appetite and wanting to devour each other, how much deep hatred could there be between the common people and the common people? How much can the soldiers' parents, wives and children get in exchange for their lives? In the end, it's not that the nobles are still the nobles, and the untouchables are still the untouchables.

Guo Xu sat on a rock, his whole body soft.

Knives and mallets were at his feet, stained with blood, grease and hair.

Not far away, there was a corpse of Qin Jun, face down, and the back of the head was missing. The corpse was three steps away, and the two soldiers, one Qin and one Jin, were lying in a pool of blood in each other's arms, like a couple sleeping together. The tokens of love left in each other's bodies, one is a knife, and the other is a half-cut arrow shaft.

On the battlefield, you'll see bizarre ways to die. The fight that has just stopped, on the banks of the Wei River, leaves countless mutilated and therefore ugly shells. There is no head, there is a head without a face, there is a chest and abdomen cut open. The one who cut off his legs and split it diagonally from his shoulders to his waist. The body was intact and the head was smashed into a cake, and the heart and lungs were pierced. Those who were nailed to the ground, the part above the waist climbed out of the long distance and left a bloody path, the back half was on the shore and the first half was in the Wei River, and the feet were full of blood and mud, and there was a red trickle in the water of the Wei River

In addition to swords, guns, swords, helmets, kitchen knives, stones, wooden sticks, fists and feet, and teeth, all can be used to kill people. Guo Xu once saw a soldier entangled with an enemy. The two bodies were inseparable, as one was stabbed in the ribs and the other was bitten open in the throat. Chen Song once told a scene he had seen, a Yan archer strangled a Beifu soldier with a bowstring, but the deceased crushed his testicles, and another Beifu soldier stabbed the archer in the waist from behind, and his own head was cut off by the enemy. One of the three was lying, one kneeling, and one standing. It is like a sculpture of a mother and three children, life and death are inseparable.

In a fierce fight, the deceased often dies instantaneously without much pain. The wounded, on the other hand, had to endure long periods of torture. At this moment, on the edge of the battlefield, the wounded on both sides of the enemy and the enemy were lying one on each side. The sound of wailing makes people's scalps tingle. He had an arrow in his eye, and his jaw was shattered. Arms and legs were cut off, and intestines flowed out. Those who have daggers on their bodies that cannot be pulled out at once, those whose entire scalps have been shaved off, those whose buttocks are half pulled and are missing, those whose throats have been shattered and who cannot speak, those who do not know where the wounds are but have been bleeding from their mouths, those whose ears have been cut off, whose fingers have been dodged, who have been shot in the torso by a bow and arrow and who have survived the vital parts, are no longer considered wounded.

This place is not far from Chang'an, and the injured hurried into the city, and there is still hope of survival. If this is a wilderness, there are no doctors, no medicines, not even clean water to rinse the wounds, moderate injuries can kill you, let alone serious injuries. Veterans all know that they would rather cut off their heads with a knife than break their legs and abdomen, and the taste of waiting for death in pain and suffering is enough to defeat the strongest man in the army. People who have been in the army for a long time have experienced the most devastating scene: the dead have been buried, the living must be evacuated as much as possible, and the injured are reaching out to climb the feet of their comrades, while helplessly shouting: Help me, give me a knife!

Guo Xu is no longer a rookie on the battlefield, and he will not vomit, tremble, and cramp his internal organs because of the tragic casualties, but he will feel uncomfortable every time. When the battle is over and it is the others who die instead of himself, he asks himself: Do I have a grudge against them?

Apparently not.

The most absurd part of the war is that the son of a mother kills the son of another mother in an inexplicable place; The husband of one wife, in a distant wilderness, shot and killed the husband of another wife. Everyone slashes and kills each other like this because they are given the title of soldiers, and once a person becomes a soldier, he is no longer a human being, but a marionette, and can only obey orders. A man called a general drove thousands of troops and horses to sell his head, even if it was sold very cheaply, everyone sold it. After selling, if there is a victory, the dead are buried, and the general counts the money. Take off your armor, and everyone has the same emotions and desires to eat and drink Lazar; Put on the armor, you and I are mortal enemies who can only live one of them. But think about it carefully, if it weren't for the emperor's big appetite and wanting to devour each other, how much deep hatred could there be between the common people and the common people? How much can the soldiers' parents, wives and children get in exchange for their lives? In the end, it's not that the nobles are still the nobles, and the untouchables are still the untouchables.

Pondering is pondering, fighting a war is like striking iron, either you overwhelm the iron, or the iron overwhelms you. The first is to live himself, and the second is to keep his brother alive, so that the enemy has no choice but to die. A veteran, only by passing through such a simple Taoist ideal and doing it, can he convince himself and save himself until he is washed with blood and is numb from the inside out.

Someone tapped him on the shoulder, and when he looked up, he was crazy.

After the tragic death of the vegetable worm, the madman does not talk as much as before. He is now the owner of the building, and he has to rush in front of all the brothers in the building when he fights, and he has to mix with the brothers after the battle, and he has less time with Guo Xu. Now, he was holding a helmet, filled with water, and asked Guo Xu to wash his hands and face. While washing his hands, Guo Xu looked at the madman covered in blood and asked him if he was injured. The madman said the knife that could hurt me hasn't been made yet.

After Guo Xu finished washing, he watched the madman splash the blood of a helmet on the ground. There was the blood of a dozen or so people in this muddy water, and now it was all returned to dust, and it would evaporate and dry when it was opened, and like the dead, they would withdraw from this chaotic earthly world.

Guo Xu picked up the weapon on the ground, and wanted to wipe it clean on the robe of the corpse of the Qin army, but suddenly changed his mind. Feeling that he shouldn't be alarmed again, he picked up a lump of dirt on the ground. Rub off the blood first, and then wipe it again with your own robes.

The two of them walked side by side in the direction of Wang Zhen's evil flag. The stubble clattered under the feet like the sound of bones shattering on the battlefield.

Wang Zhenxi's own soldiers had already washed the face of the commander, wiped the blood stains off his armor, and changed into a clean battle robe. Wang Zhenwei looked a little tired, but his eyes were burning, and his spirit was undiminished:

"It has been counted, our army has killed 563 people, and killed 2,468 enemies, which is a good deal! Now the Qin army has broken up in front of him. We must immediately take advantage of the situation to rush into Chang'an, otherwise once Zhengcheng Yao Yan arrives, Chang'an's city defense will be reinforced, and it will be difficult to fight. Your task is to gather the horses of the Qin army alive on the battlefield and lead a cavalry to Chang'an, preferably to grab a city gate to welcome the main force into the city. I will meet you with a great army. Without further ado, let's go now. If you encounter an enemy on the road, don't fall in love! ”

In the end, only 19 horses were collected.

Wang Zhenwei said that at this time, the enemy was discouraged, and Yao Hong was already a lost dog, 19 horses were equivalent to 1,900 horses. You have to swagger away, and I judge that you will not meet decent resistance.

He really got it right.

19And when he rode into the gate of Pingshuo, the gate was open. There was not a single defender above or below the city. The occupants near the gate closed their doors and listened attentively. There was no sound of movement in front of him. Guo Xu sent people to climb the city tower, and the food, weapons depot, fire extinguishing sand and alarm beacon materials in the city tower were intact. It's just that there is no one on duty.

After thinking about it, I called the madman:

"Crazy, do you dare to break into Chang'an City with me?"

The madman says what don't you dare! If there is an ambush in the city, 19 people are just a plate of bean sprouts, which is not enough for them to stuff their teeth; If there is no ambush, one person and one rider are enough to show off their might, let alone two people. A team owner, a building owner, is enough to give them face.

Guo Xu asked the remaining 17 brothers to set up their bows and crossbows at the Pingshuo Gate, and he took the madman with a flag and rode through the Chang'an Street Market.

A huge Chang'an, like a ghost town. Whether it is a business or a home, the door is closed. Some merchants, apparently fearing ransacked by the rebels, have sealed the portals with spikes. The flags of various shops are still being displayed, but there are no horses tied under the flagpole, and no one is silent, as if it is a summoning spirit for the sudden disappearance of prosperity. The only thing that was open in the whole process was a brothel that looked very large and luxurious, and the old bustard was eating melons on the balcony on the second floor, and when he saw Guo Xu and the madman running by, he did not panic at all, but beckoned them to go downstairs, saying that the girls were in good spirits. Maybe the brothels in Chang'an have been accustomed to changing their banners, and whoever comes is doing business with their legs crossed, it doesn't matter if Hu Han is or I am enemies.

Not a single pawn was encountered.

At the beginning, Guo Xu had a sword on his left and a hammer on his right, and the madman was ready to release arrows at any time, but later he put away his weapons. It seems that the Qin army, which was defeated on the battlefield just now, did not return to the city at all.

Two people cross a street and suddenly see another world.

There is a river in front of me, I don't know if it is Weishui, Bashui or Chanshui, or which of the many rivers around Chang'an, anyway, it separates Chang'an, the fireworks that Guo Xu and they just crossed, and Chang'an, this fairyland. There is a stone bridge over the river, which follows a gentle slope of green grass and gradually rises to the bottom of a wall with battlements and watchtowers. On the other side of the city wall, palaces, Buddhist temples and pavilions, even if they cannot be fully displayed, can raise their heads from the highest part of the city wall, and the cornices and spires of the towers point to the sky, and their ears are the canopies of tall trees, and all kinds of unknown bird calls and wind chimes on the stupa are heard in their ears, and there is a faint neighing of horses.

Yao Qin Imperial City.

After walking so far, fighting so many battles, and dying so many people, Guo Xu, the leader of the Beifu Hussars, and his brother Feng Zizhang (solemn here, it is no longer appropriate to use the nickname of a madman) finally reached the ultimate destination of the Northern Expedition in the whole army. In view of the fact that Guo Xu's horse is slightly earlier than the madman's horse, he is naturally the first person to step on the Qin capital and point his sword at the imperial city.

Guo Xu's blacksmith's head will not have the pride of being at a critical juncture in history, but a madman does. He said big brother, in the future, when historians talk about the Northern Expedition of the Great Jin Dynasty to destroy Qin, they will make a note, saying that the first to hit the Yao Qin Imperial City was a team leader named Guo Xu. As for me, the official is too small, so he may be omitted.

Guo Xu said very boringly, don't talk nonsense, why is there a blacksmith's name in the history books. You hurriedly said, should we just go back and wait for General Wang to come, or take a gamble and go directly across the bridge to the city to demonstrate?

The madman groaned for a moment, and said you don't really need to ask me, you already have an idea. But you have to think clearly, if a feather forest rushes out of the palace, you and I will fold here. When I saw those two brothels just now, I wanted to save my life and have a good time.

Guo Xu grinned and said You can go to Merry now, and I will call the door. The two legs clamped the horse's belly, and flew across the bridge.

The madman shook his head with a smile, and the angry horse followed.

The two of them ran to the north gate of the imperial city in a blink of an eye. There was silence on the walls. Guo Xu sat up straight, sank into the dantian, and shouted:

"I am Guo Xu, the leader of the Hussars of the Northern Mansion of the Great Jin Dynasty, the army has occupied Chang'an, you guys hurry up and open the door!"

The madman subconsciously reached out to pick up his bow, and he found that his palms were covered with sweat.

There was no movement.

Guo Xu shouted again, and the door began to sound. This time, Guo Xu himself couldn't help but want to draw his sword, he imagined that a team of brightly armored feather forests would be killed in anger, and he was about to fight desperately on the enemy's home field.

The door opened, but not a single piece of iron came out.

A middle-aged man walked out, followed by a group of men, all dressed gorgeously and with white faces.

As soon as the man saw Guo Xu and the madman, he took the lead and knelt on the ground, and the rest of the people followed.

"The criminal minister does not know that the general is here, and he is not welcomed, please forgive the general."

Voice like a woman, eunuch!

This result was too unexpected for Guo Xu, he was stunned for a moment, and then understood.

"Where's your emperor Yao Hong?"

"Back to the general's words, the puppet Qin tyrant thief Yao Hong was defeated and fled, and did not return to the palace."

Guo Xu only understood that he was defeated and fled and did not return to the palace, but the basket of pseudo-Qin tyrants and traitors heard it in a fog, and looked at the madman with a sideways face. The madman pouted:

"This fake man is clever, when he saw you coming, he had already begun to climb the pole, saying that Qin Guo was an impostor, and his master was a thief who stole the artifacts of the Great Jin Dynasty." After saying that, he couldn't help but spit on the ground. The eunuch Xu was used to being scolded, and he actually laughed with him.

Guo Xu also can't see a man alive or dead, but now he doesn't care about it, and asks tightly:

"Then why didn't Yulin come out of the palace?"

The eunuch waved his hand with his orchid finger:

"There is no one left, they all ran away with the traitor Yao Hong, and now there are only palace maids and us in the palace!"

The madman jumped off his horse, drew his sword and put it on the eunuch's shoulder:

"You unisex guy with no dick! Are you telling the truth? If you dare to play tricks, you won't just lose dicks! ”

The eunuch almost collapsed to the ground in fright, clinging to the madman's arm with one hand and pointing to his heart tremblingly with the other:

"If there is half a lie, let the general scratch me!"

The madman quickly exchanged glances with Guo Xu and decided that the eunuch was not lying. The city is an empty city, the palace is an empty palace, Chang'an, the former capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the vast palace in its hinterland, will be returned to the old owner.

Guo Xu suddenly flashed a thought.

"You take me to the harem!"

The eunuch was confused at first, and then a ** smile flashed across his face:

"It's not that I'm disobedient, for the sake of the general, or don't touch the palace maids, they should be left to the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, if the general enjoys it first, I'm afraid it will cause suspicion and mistake the general's life."

Guo Xu smiled disdainfully:

"You're considerate! I don't want your palace maid, I want you to take me to find something. ”

The eunuch visibly relaxed:

"If the general only wants treasures, he will take away a car, and we will not spit out a word to outsiders!"

The madman spat on the ground again:

"Phew! If Lao Tzu played the concubine of the traitor Yao Hong today, would you spit out countless words? ”

Without waiting for the eunuch to reply, Guo Xu had already glared at the madman, to the effect that you can restrain a little and take care of the face of our army. He also felt that his request was actually quite a shame for the righteous banner of the Northern Expedition, but his soft mind was bigger than the sky, and he didn't care about people laughing at him for not seeing the world.

But he straightened up, brought out the conqueror's stand, and said to the eunuch majestically:

"I want you to bring me the most beautiful comb in the palace!" (To be continued......)