Chapter Seventy-Eight: Bold
As the most elite warriors, the soldiers of the Cloud Cavalry on Hades' arms have finally become the most fragile and corrupt people after the onset of drug backlash. When they returned from the real defeat, they found that the tiredness after the war and the longing for their loved ones seemed to be stronger than the fighting spirit during the battle.
The soldiers of the Cloud Cavalry supported each other, and for them, it was probably quite difficult to get out of Hades' arms, but they had to march anyway, and when the smoke of a war dissipated, when the people in the war were still alive, no one did not miss their relatives. What awaits them may be shattered and death after all, but at this moment, when the army on Hades' arms slowly retreated, everyone, thinking of the words Crewe had said, in their minds.
The war of the Hades Arm in the Northern Regions finally came to an end. The warriors of the rivers and lakes also returned from the same way and rushed to the snowfield. Some of them were indeed unconvinced, most of the warriors who traveled with them were dead, and the years of friendship between the same people or the friendship between the knights made them desperate for revenge.
But as Li Nianyun said, when things like benevolence, righteousness, justice and kindness can't influence the choice, it shows absolute deterrence. Yun Cangxuan's sword made Xuansheng 12 admire, this war ended until the end, and no one broke the myth that Xuansheng 12 did not break the golden body, but as soon as Yuncang Xuan made a move, Xuansheng 12 had already admitted defeat, between them, of course, there is a gap in the realm, maybe Xuansheng 12 will realize a stronger ultimate defense after stepping into the extreme intention. But that was the topic of controversy among the martial artists after dinner, and at the moment, they were only sure of one thing, that is, none of them could catch Yun Cangxuan's sword. In order to survive, they can only choose to evacuate after all.
Xiao Ye ran fast, and so did Sikong Du Sikong Cook Brothers, Li Sixiang did not lose too much blood after breaking his arm because of the cold weather, but the signs of life were getting weaker and weaker. When the warriors of the rivers and lakes have completely exhausted their internal strength and physical strength, they are no different from ordinary people, not to mention that under serious injuries, it is even more difficult to survive.
Xiao Ye and the Sikong brothers are in a hurry, but they may be auspicious.
They ran to the end of Hades' arm, and when they were still some distance from the imperial camp, they saw a woman. When the night monk saw this woman, his heart burst into flames:
"Miss Xiu, it's great, it's great, it's great, now Senior Li is saved."
Not long after Chen Hui rushed to the snow field, Zhong Yunxiu also went to the Hades Arm. When he saw Li Sixiang on Xiao Ye's back, Zhong Yunxiu knew why the two Taoist masters behind Xiao Ye were so anxious. Today's Zhong Yunxiu is still far from the world's first miracle doctor, but in the treatment of flesh injuries, Zhong Yunxiu's strength is already a contemporary miracle doctor.
Everything is moving in the direction of the willow blossom. The same is true for the snowfields.
After Chen Hui put forward his bargaining chips, Xiang Wu began to take a serious look at the young man, and for some reason, he seemed to see Xiao Qianye back then.
It's also such a young organization with a lot of top talent. It also has the talent of the younger generation, and the strong cultivation comparable to the top martial artists.
The scholar once said that this young man was born in response to the fortune of Tianji Pavilion. Xiang Wu has always been curious about this person, and Feng Zhan said that the shopkeeper would appear in the Northern Regions. Sure enough, he appeared in the Northern Regions. Now that the young man was standing in front of him, calmly telling himself his chips in a way that was almost threatening but not threatening, Xiang Wu had to sigh at the wonder of fate.
Eventually, he put down his iron gun.
"Khredub, I didn't expect that it was neither you nor me who ultimately decided your fate and even the victory or defeat of this war, but the people in the rivers and lakes." Xiang Wu said.
Khredub also did not expect that there would be someone from the martial arts sect in the Central Plains of the empire who would stand on the opposite side of the imperial army for them. Maybe as long as you live, you will wait for good things to come. Even if the future of Tieli Kingdom may still be dark, at least, he walked out of Snow Dove City with this group, and he can still take this group of people back.
Even if it has been changed beyond recognition.
In the process of Li Nianyun's dialogue with Xiang Wu, and Chenhui's dialogue with Xiang Wu, Heredubu never spoke. At this time, this battle-hardened king, the strongest man in the Tieli Kingdom for seven hundred years, had tears in his eyes.
He still didn't respond to Xiang Wu's words, he just turned around, looking at the mighty army behind him, all of which had become half-human and thin, and he was sad.
With the last of his strength, Khredub's hand landed on the massive Horse Slashing Sword, and in an instant, the powerful weapon that had been made against the Imperial Dragon shattered apart.
Chen Hui and Li Nianyun are both young generations, and they rarely feel the vicissitudes of life, and at this time, Khredubu is extremely vicissitudes. He sighed, "Xiang Wu, I hope the empire can give them a little more time. ”
Xiang Wu understood the meaning of this sentence. He will withdraw his troops, but he also knows that withdrawing them will inevitably violate the emperor's orders. And under the pressure of the hundred officials and the empire, he will eventually send troops to Tieli. Therefore, the shredding of the Khredub knife means that Tieli will no longer be an enemy of the Empire, at least while Khredub is still alive.
Heredub didn't know how long it would be before the spread of the Snow Demon Zone would begin to spread to Snow Dove City. But in short, it will not be sooner than the iron hoof of the empire arrives. Their fate has not changed, either by the spears of the Imperial army or by the cold of the North.
But now he can take this group back with him to spend the last days of the country with their loved ones. That's something to be thankful for. As a king, Heredubu saluted Li Nianyun with a salute of the Tieli Kingdom.
Li Nianyun didn't feel it, his motive for stopping this war had nothing to do with the Tieli people. He just wants the war to end.
And at this moment, what Li Nianyun wants to do most is to quickly find the thickest clothes to put on his body, and then quickly leave the hellish place of the Northern Regions.
"Shopkeeper...... What you promised me...... Don't forget......" After Li Nianyun finished saying this, he fainted amid the exclamations of many female disciples of Yunci Valley.
Khredub's knife was not so easy to bear after all.
Chen recalled the scene of Qinhuai Bridge, he also fell down at that time, and thought that Li Nianyun looked at him at that time, just like he looked at Li Nianyun at this moment.
There are always many similar and corresponding opportunities in life.
He has never forgotten what he promised Li Nianyun, and he once said that one day he would personally visit Yunci Valley to learn from Li Nianyun and compete with him. It's just that after the martial arts conference, he was delayed by the war in Hongcheng, and then went to Qinzhou City to thwart the conspiracy of Haotian Zhangjiao, and then he came to the Northern Regions to catch up with the end of this war.
In retrospect, it seems like a long time has passed, and it doesn't seem to have been long. But for Chen Hui, in the first year of the rivers and lakes, too many things really happened.
Maybe it's time to take a break. Thinking so, he raised his head, looked at the sky with falling snowflakes, listened to the people on the battlefield slowly disperse, and felt the obsession of countless deceased people who seemed to be still in the world, and his snort was full of the bloody breath of the dead. He gradually closed his eyes, slowly remembering every moment of the end of the war.
……
The Great War is over. The Tieli army eventually headed north, and it was not known whether the soldiers who had suffered a disease from taking the Ghost Doctor's Mizo medicine would be able to walk back to Tieli. It's just that no one has given up.
The rest of the story is legend and history.
After several dynasties, people will only see a simple description of this war, which was a war in which the empire united with civil forces to resist aggression. Of course, for Tie Li, because of a certain incident, the empire began to correct the description and rhetoric of the Tie Li people.
In short, there have been many heroes in this war, Di Yueluo, Wei Chi, Huang Shengguan, Xiao Ouyang Xi, Kunke, Ebony Wujian...... The most important ones are, of course, Tieli's kings, Heredubu and Xiang Wu. Crewe has also been written by historians. Its cry for peace in the midst of the Great War was glorified by the literati who wrote the history books, and after many dynasties, it seemed somewhat too perfect.
For example, Crewe's image is fearless, and his personality is righteous and brave. The gentlemen of those private schools would always ask the students how they felt when Kru, who was not yet the general of Tieli, made that choice. The students naturally know that this kind of problem is to say it in the sense of praise. can be combined with the life of the great general Crewe, some more serious students often conclude that the general was actually very scared at that time. Such answers are often criticized.
Of course, this is not the most ironic, the most ironic thing is that in the heroic ice sculptures of Tieli Kingdom, in addition to the people of Kru Umu Heredub, there are also Heleiyue. Heleiyue has a high evaluation in the canonical history. Brave and fearless, he will never retreat in battle, and in the history books compiled by the emperors, Hereyue is like a god of war. And even in the local folk oral tradition of the Tieli people, the image of Heleiyue is very majestic.
In fact, there are still many mistakes of one kind or another in history, but those times are gradually leaving people after all, and the true face of those generals is only known to the world that witnessed the war, and the history that people keep may be true, or it may only be the truth that people think it is.
In stark contrast, it is the wild history. Wild history is much more exciting, because it doesn't need to be studied, and its only source is from generation to generation, or folk rumors.
The most brilliant thing in this war in the wild history is the civil forces in the official history, that is, the warriors of the rivers and lakes. The empire was limited to troops, and turned to the warriors of the rivers and lakes, and the warriors showed great bravery, all of them were masters of one enemy and one hundred. It was also because of the brave performance of these masters that Tie Li Kingdom was finally defeated.
The huge gap in Hades's arm is said to be cut by a warrior with a sword, and in the dynasty where the martial arts inheritance is gradually lost, this kind of supernatural power has long been the scope of mythology, no one wants to believe it, but no one has ever understood why the gap and the fracture surface are so smooth.
As for Heleiyue, in the romance written by an unscrupulous author many years later, she was portrayed as an evil character who trampled on the dignity of other people's lives and regarded the common people like ants.
It's just that who can know if it's true or false?
It was as if a distant future later, someone found the corpse of an ancient creature in the far north, and the corpse was so huge that it was like an iceberg. They spent a lot of manpower and material resources to bring back his bones, only to find that the head was missing.
……
The spring of the thirty-first year of the Qin calendar.
When Heleiyue, Kru, Ebony and other high-ranking Tieli soldiers finally arrived at Snow Dove City with more than 30,000 sick and disabled Tieli soldiers, everyone's faces were still more happy than sad in the end.
Or only Heredub, king of Tieli, was the most sorrowful. Because of this journey, many Tieli soldiers died. The huge cost of this war has made Tieli no longer powerful. For more than a decade, as long as the empire launched a war, they no longer had the power to resist.
But not many people are worried about this now, because at the rate at which the Snow Devil Zone is spreading, Snow Dove City will eventually become part of the Far North by the time this summer arrives.
When the army returned in defeat, it was not the people of Tieli who were the first to greet them. The outcome of this war is already faintly known to the people of Tieli. Although they were grieving, like many soldiers, they had the same last thoughts, that is, to die in the cold, and they also hoped to get together and live and die together.
But a few miles outside the Snow Dove City, the first thing the Tieli army saw was not Tieli's people, but a swordsman in a white robe, the sword behind his back, but it was a little strange because it was too large, and it was not the swordsman who caught the eye.
Behind the swordsman, there was a hill-like beast head.
At first glance, Khredub wondered what a beast in the world had such a huge head. The second glance was to surprise this swordsman, who was obviously younger than him, but had a realm that he couldn't see through. You must know that in the entire continent, the people who can make Heredub unable to see through the realm can be counted on one hand.
He knows a lot about the Central Plains martial arts, and knows that the owner of the number one in the world is a master who uses a giant sword. He had guessed the identity of this person, but what he didn't guess was why he was here, and what kind of behemoth deserved to be attacked by such a strong man?
The answer was faintly known, and his thoughts slowly seeped into the direction he didn't dare to think. Heredub fought all his life, but he didn't want to, when he was most nervous, he was not facing Xiang Wu, who also had the strongest name in the world, and hundreds of thousands of imperial troops, but facing a swordsman in the rivers and lakes.
This swordsman is naturally the strongest person in the world, Ning Wuxie.
After Ning Wuxian saw Khredub again, he walked straight over.
"The most powerful creatures in the Northern Regions are dead, and your people will no longer have to worry about the cold, and perhaps this summer, Ice Capital City will come to life again. King Tie Li, this is a big gift from someone from me Ning and Master Yun on behalf of the Central Plains Martial Arts. ”
Ning Wuxian calmly continued: "This snow demon is indeed not easy to kill, in the face of its strength, thousands of troops are like nothing, but after all, it was killed by me and the head of the cloud, although you are in the extreme, but you should know that there are people outside the world, and now among the imperial warriors, there are many people whose strength is above you." ”
"If Tie Li commits another attack on Frost River in the future, King Tie Li, I want you to weigh whether you - there are so many people for Ning to entertain."
Such a domineering threat had already made Khredub sure who was coming, but at this moment, where could he care about it? The continuous weakening of the cold aura in the extreme north made him think that it was just a change in the time of this giant beast, but where would he have thought that someone had killed a giant beast with manpower.
How strong should this strength be?
After Ning Wuxian said this, he left the snow field. The Tieli generals hadn't understood yet, and they were still wondering who was so arrogant, but everyone didn't speak, because just the momentum could make them feel that this person was extremely dangerous.
Heredub only said in a trembling voice:
"Original...... This is the dawn of the willows. ”
……
The time was the twenty-first day after the end of the war. Imperial Palace, Kyoto.
At this time, the palace was in a state of laughter, the emperor learned that the war in the Northern Regions and the Western Regions was won, the territory was preserved and there was no need to worry about war for a long time.
Now Xiang Wu and the other commanders of the Divine Soldiers Absolute General Battalion are still dealing with many things, as well as counting the losses of this war, and they may not return to Kyoto until later. And the ministers and hundreds of officials have already begun to suggest to His Majesty the Emperor at the banquet that Xiang Wu should immediately send troops to completely exterminate Tie Li, so as to ensure eternal peace in the northern border of Great Qin.
The little emperor also felt that this was reasonable. So the eunuch leader came, wanting to draft an edict to inform Xiang Wu, ordering him to send troops to Xuejiu City to drive out the Tieli people and cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.
But at this moment, a gust of wind arose in the hall for no apparent reason. The candle flame was extinguished instantly.
The hundred officials exclaimed, and the guards suddenly became alert, and for a moment the dark hall seemed a little flustered and noisy. When the guards arrived to light the candles, the officials were shocked to find that the emperor ...... It's gone.
The abduction of the emperor in the palace is something that has never happened since the founding of the Qin State, not to mention that the Emperor Star General is extremely strong, closely watching the movements of the palace, just the group of guards and the powerhouses of the Emperor Star Department who secretly protect the emperor are by no means the enemy of ordinary assassins.
Under such circumstances, the emperor could still be robbed, and they couldn't help but wonder, what kind of master must be able to do it?
There was panic in the palace for a while. And at this moment, the emperor is actually sitting well.
He was in the imperial study, and no one would believe that someone could rob the emperor, but in such a short period of time, he did not choose other remote places, but came to the imperial study.
Today, there are three people in the imperial study. A young man who looked a little ruffian, with a slight uninhibited wildness in his eyebrows, a young man who looked gentle and elegant, calm as water, and a young man he should have been very familiar with but couldn't remember for a while...... Eunuch.
The little emperor stared at the eunuch for a long time, and finally patted his head and said: "Hahaha, I always thought you were familiar, but I didn't expect it to be you, I didn't expect that my palace was so heavily guarded during the war, and you could still get in, Shen Xiaolie, you are really not simple." ”
Then the little emperor laughed, the scholar of the Shen family in his impression may be a little shabby, but he is absolutely wise, and now this eunuch appearance makes him feel so funny.
"Your Majesty. It was really a last resort to make this decision. "The eunuch has faded from the eunuch uniform, as if he were a scholar,
The one who robbed the current emperor was the inn and his party, who were in charge, in charge of the book, and ran the hall. Such bold behavior is also a scholar's strategy. A surprise attack is what no one dares to do.
But the emperor's reaction somewhat surprised Feng Zhan and Chen Hui.
"Your Majesty is not afraid of us?" The scholar said.
"Shen Xiaolie, you should know that I have been pretending to be a waste for many years like you, and now if you want to say who the people in the whole Jianghu want to kill the most, it will definitely not be me, but the father and son of the Yan family. This is also thanks to you, I thought I valued you enough, but I didn't expect to underestimate you. I'm just curious, what kind of thing can make a character like you take such a risky move. "The little emperor's performance is not only not a waste, on the contrary, the calm and calm at this moment is simply very extraordinary in the eyes of Chen Hui and others.
The scholar is not polite, this little emperor has endured for many years, waiting for an opportunity, and he is probably the only one who knows all this. Or maybe one of the Emperor Generals also knows.
It was the shopkeeper who spoke, and the shopkeeper bowed first and said apologetically: "If it weren't for the urgency of the situation, of course I wouldn't be so rude to His Majesty the Emperor." ”
The little emperor looked at the shopkeeper and said, "If you rob me to the imperial study, you can be regarded as a gentleman among the bandits." ”
In such a situation, you can still joke that the courage of this little emperor is indeed extraordinary, Chen Hui saluted again and said: "Your Majesty, dare to ask Tie Li Guo if you want to march again and send troops to fight?" ”
The little emperor nodded and said, "The Tieli people have violated the border of Shuangchuan for many years, and if they are not removed, it will be a scourge after all. Now the officials and ministers also have this intention. I should conform to the will of the people. ”
Then the little emperor said: "It seems that you want to speak for the Tieli people?" ”
"Your Majesty is as smart as ever." The scholar said.
This, as always, sounded to the little emperor, and it had some other meanings. He smiled and said: "Xiao Lie, the father and son of the Yan family are now so restrained above the court, it is all your strategy and your credit, General Xiang Wu also mentioned your various deeds when he saw me, I owe you a favor, it is still a big favor, but state affairs are state affairs." If you want to convince me, I'm afraid that the previous favor is not enough. ”
The scholar smiled and said: "Your Majesty, if Hongcheng hadn't been for my shopkeeper's action, I'm afraid that now the empire will not only lose one Hongcheng, but Qinzhou City will also be completely destroyed, and then the Northern Regions will withdraw the army, and Shuangchuan will also be lost." You owe me more than that. ”
The little emperor said: "I don't think so, weakening the father and son of the Yan family was decided when you and I talked many years ago. That's what I begged you, but to guard Hongcheng, but you went by yourself, everyone in the world hopes to give me favors, if I count them all, wouldn't I be tired to death? ”
Feng Zhan frowned, touched his chin, and said in his heart: How can this emperor be like a businessman.
The scholar said again: "Your Majesty is worthy of being Your Majesty, but if you want this favor, don't want it, Your Majesty only needs to know that we and other grass people, although they are common people, but they also have the ability to support Daqin, if Your Majesty is so ......"
The little emperor smiled: "So what? Now it's just you and your accomplices, and it's just as usual. ”
The scholar smiled bitterly: "If Your Majesty is so snobbish and calculating, I think we will be more cautious when we help Your Majesty in the future." ”
"Ahaha, hahaha, hahahaha." The little emperor laughed in three stages, and then said:
"I believe in your ability, but it's still the same sentence, this is a state affair, Xiao Hunt, you should know, although I don't care about the government on the surface, but in fact, I still have my own opinions on some things."
The scholar nodded and said, "Your Majesty wants a guarantee?" ”
The little emperor said: "That's right, now you are no longer a member of the empire, you are a person from the rivers and lakes, although you helped me solve a big trouble, not only the Yan family, but also the contradictions and disputes between the rivers and lakes martial arts and the empire have been resolved." But since you're a Jianghu person, I have to be a backhand. I want you to swear in your father's name that in the future, when the empire is in crisis, you will do everything you can to help the empire. ”
The shopkeeper and Feng Zhan didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would be so difficult.
In their original plan, the emperor would disagree, and then the shopkeeper would explain the benefits and disadvantages, know it with emotion and reason, and even drive it away at critical moments, but His Majesty the emperor is not a straw bale emperor like the world's comments.
His expression seemed to have long understood the benefits and disadvantages of the Tieli people to eliminate or not to remove.
It is not so much that the inn and his party hijacked the little emperor and wanted to blackmail the little emperor, but that the little emperor was just invited to go, and then turned against the guest.
The scholar's expression was solemn, he didn't expect the little emperor to say this.
The scholar said, "I will not swear. ”
The little emperor also frowned, I have to say that this emperor looks like a gentleman when he is smiling, but frowning has a majesty.
"Your Majesty should know that people like me, if they use too much intrigue and trickery, they will not be limited by oaths. It doesn't matter to me if you ask me to swear by my father, or by my sister, it doesn't make sense to me, if there is really a providence in this world, then the sky must be blind and deaf, and if the person who violates the oath will really take the oath, this world will be the same for a long time. I figured this out when I was very young, I won't swear, it's pointless, but I'll grant your request. ”
The little emperor frowned in his last breath, and instantly said with a hippie smile: "That's right, I am very generous with your words, as for Tie Li, if I guess correctly, I am afraid that in a few decades, it will be difficult for them to do anything, otherwise Xiang Wu will not withdraw his troops." ”
"If it's hard for them to do anything, why should I increase the killing, do you think that's the truth?"
Feng Zhan pouted, and Chen Hui looked calm, but both of them were a little jealous of the little emperor, and this emperor was really very different from the rumors.
"Your Majesty, I can only promise you three things. Am I not free forever? And if what you do is the act of benevolence and wisdom, that is, Your Majesty, you will not recruit us in the future, and I am afraid that the shopkeeper will take the initiative to share your worries for you. ”
Hearing the scholar's words, Chen Hui smiled bitterly.
His Majesty the Emperor thought for a moment, nodded and said, "The oracle is the holy decree, and we will make a decision." ”
(End of chapter)