Chapter Seventy-Five: Before the End
Chen Hui sensed the aura of many strong men gathered in two places, and at the highest place in front of the north gate of the Frost River, he saw the mighty army, and also sensed that there were many warriors somewhere in the Ice Helmet Mountain Range. The wind and snow blinded him, but Chen Hui always maintained a concentration along the way, and he finally chose to go to the snowfield.
The road of several miles was not long, and Chen Hui saw the imperial army outside the north gate of the Frost River again. Suddenly, outside the west gate of Hongcheng, the battle between the desert and the Wanzang tribe at dusk. Sometimes it's really hard for people to change anything, and when he thinks back to that war, he can't help but feel powerless.
The war in Hongcheng started one night, that night was the wedding of the high priest of Haotian and the prince of the wolf clan, and that night was also the night when the wolf people launched a war. And the end of the war in Hongcheng was also a night. There wasn't much to tell about that night other than the war itself. If there is, it's the two young men on the battlefield.
Di Yueluo and Chen Hui.
The strongest Emperor Star will join forces with the most mysterious and powerful young generation of Jianghu this year, and on the battlefield, even in the face of nearly 20,000 troops, the two of them will faintly have the upper hand. Di Yueluo once said to Chen Hui that if he couldn't kill someone, he would leave the battlefield as soon as possible. This is just like what Xuansheng said to the twelve monks of Xiaoye, Xiaoye killed people in order to save people. Chen Hui was also killing, but he felt more confused than ever.
No matter how powerful he and Di Yueluo were, neither of them was extremely willing, and in the face of tens of thousands of soldiers, both of them began to fatigue in a short period of time. Di Yueluo's Heavenly Emperor's will had a strong pressure that made it impossible for anyone to approach, and the gravity in the realm was controlled by him. However, the wear and tear of this move is only slightly lower than that of Fengding Sand.
The King's Landing Sword in Chenhui's hand is incomparably sharp, and his wind and sand swordsmanship is even more unpredictable, the same these soldiers can't get in, but the same, because of his strength, he can kill people with a single shot. He had already killed people, and he was not as afraid as Xiao Ye, but it was the first time that Chen Hui was faced with such a choice, killing someone he thought was not guilty of death.
Some people say that once the number of people killed increases, many things will become numb, and then they will get used to it and become calm. This may be the case with the public loss glass. But Chenhui can't adapt to these. When countless wolf soldiers rushed towards him like death, he felt a little sad and lamentable, just because of the wolf king Zhuofa's bounty of ten thousand taels of officials to be promoted to three levels, or just because of the nature of obeying the royal power in his blood and bones. It's just how can he convince himself to kill these people? He wielded his long sword, his figure was agile, but his physical strength was also rapidly depleting, before that, he used many magical means such as Feng Dingsha Feng Wu to deal with the wolf king's father and son, and kept running to destroy the bronze chariot, and finally Chen Hui felt a strong tiredness.
Under such tiredness, many emotions slowly faded. He continued to kill, and when he finally realized that all this was inevitable, Chen Hui felt unusually sad. Countless soldiers rushed in, and countless people died. He is not known for his light skills, but his speed is no worse than that of a first-rate light skill. The powerful King's Landing seemed to have no obstacles when cutting flesh and blood, such a sharp sword with such a powerful swordsman, for a while, the three of the Wolf Emperor's father and son had no choice, they could only rely on the advantage of their strength to continue to attack, and Xitu used unreasonable consumption to besiege Chen Hui and Di Yueluo and die.
It was also at that time that human life began to lose its value. In other words, human life is always cheap. It's just that he's been stubborn.
Di Yueluo's expression was still full of arrogance and indifference, and the disdain for the common people in his eyes could see that this first-time general on the battlefield actually had the nature of a cold-blooded killer, and the attitude of not entering the living was his attitude towards all living beings. He didn't make many moves, but with each shot, the knees of a large number of soldiers were crushed. Everywhere Di Yueluo passed, corpses were strewn all over the field, and the unreasonably strong will of the Heavenly Emperor made him never be approached by anyone on the battlefield.
Chen Hui didn't envy Di Yueluo for being able to kill people so calmly, he always remembered one thing. If everyone treats the lives of others as if they were a mustard, then their own tragedies may continue to occur everywhere. At that time, Chensha also had an understanding, and he expected that this river and lake was really sinister, and he would kill people after robbing money. Maybe it was because Chensha thought it was inappropriate back then, so he couldn't let go of the little boy in the heavy rain.
Because he has personally felt the pain of losing his loved ones, Chen Hui will feel truly difficult to let go.
This group of soldiers, I am afraid that even their king will not be able to remember their names, compared to the war machine, compared to the weapon, how much more important can these soldiers be? But each of them has their own name, each has their own friends and their own relatives. They should all have their own life trajectory. Most of the soldiers were young people, and their lives should be at their most splendid time, but because of this war, they died in death.
It's just that this kind of emotion is not appropriate, and Chen Hui also understands this best. Because this is the battlefield, each of them has their own life trajectory, but the battlefield is often the trajectory of everyone leading to one place, death. This is a fact that all the generals have acquiesced to. This is a rule that all countries take for granted. It's just that he began to question the existence of this rule.
Chen Hui thought that the battles in the rivers and lakes all paid attention to right and wrong. But on the battlefield, because of the ambition of the ruler, he wants to let tens of thousands of people who have no grudges and grievances fight each other, he can't understand, because he can't find a trace of justice for the reason for this war. But unlike Monk Sayo, he never hesitated to draw his sword, although he never found that calm. The kind of calm after the killing that the old man Huangquan said to Xiang Wu. Perhaps this is the duty of the soldiers, who accept the king's orders and fight to the death on the battlefield is an instinct, and this instinct is worthy of respect, but this war is not worthy of respect. He felt sorry for them.
He remembered that just now, Zhuo Ao Shi showed Haotian Palm Technique and burned him with the soldiers in the bronze chariot, and finally dodged himself, but the group of soldiers were burned to death by the scorching Haotian Pure Flame, but how natural it was on the faces of this group of people.
Everyone has their own choice, and what kind of choice will bear what kind of consciousness and what kind of cost. Chenhui has no right to intervene. On the battlefield, what he didn't do in the end was to muster up the courage to stop the war, in a way that was far from killing. Forced to survive, he began to kill people constantly. When his sword really terrified the wolf soldiers, the charge against him slowly began to stop. Because Chen Hui is like killing a god, there are corpses everywhere he passes.
But it only slowed down, and when the wolf king's order was conveyed again, the wolf soldiers still charged fiercely.
He realizes that the way he stops the war doesn't seem to escape the laws of history, and the biggest difference between him and Sayo is that when he decides that a situation is the only thing he can be sure of, he will convince himself to do it. Even if it's murder. Countless wolf clansmen died under Chen Hui's sword, and compared to Di Yueluo, Chen Hui killed a lot of people. Two strong men shine like twin stars on the battlefield. When he found that he could only stop killing people and use some kind of force to accelerate the defeat of the wolf clan and end the war, Chen Hui's sword became even more invincible.
It's a very contradictory mentality, which has nothing to do with hypocrisy, he really feels the pain and confusion, but understands that his hesitation will only bring a greater burden to others. So he didn't stop drawing his sword. The bronze chariots were all destroyed by him, and nearly a thousand wolf soldiers were slaughtered by him alone.
At that time, Chen Hui did not have the slightest sense of accomplishment in his heart. He just lamented his powerlessness and insignificance. He found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't seem to change the aggressive ambitions of the wolf king's father and son with his own strength. No matter how many people are killed and how much damage is caused, this war will never be stopped.
This was not his sin in the first place, but he fell into such an obsession. Many years ago, when he was studying Feng Dingsha, Chensha once asked him.
"Walking the rivers and lakes in the future, do you want to kill people or do you want to save people?"
"Master, I want to save people."
"Then I'll teach you how to kill."
"Why?"
"You won't be in this Lianqing Valley for the rest of your life, the rivers and lakes are sinister. The first lesson in learning martial arts is to make you understand that in the rivers and lakes, saving people often requires constant killing. ”
"Master, this ...... It's hard to understand. ”
"It's naturally difficult to understand, and it's hard to understand as a teacher. Just went through a lot of things. Let me be convinced that there is something right about this statement. ”
Chen Sha did not tell Chen Hui about the tragedy outside Liankong City that year, he killed a lot of people, but through his killing, the final melee was stopped.
The scholar also told Chen Hui that the weak side will not invade the strong side, and the sheep will never kill the wolf, so when the invader starts a war, the best way is to show absolute strength, so that they can understand who is the really strong side and who is the real wolf.
Chen Hui's performance is like this, he is like an invincible existence on the battlefield, if the strongest person on the battlefield in the Northern Regions is Xiang Wu, then the strongest person on the battlefield in the Western Regions is Chen Hui.
But the killing in the mouth of the master does not apply to war. The intensity of the war made Chen Hui begin to doubt himself. And the strength in the scholar's mouth is not what Chen Hui can show.
In the eyes of the rulers, he is only a warrior after all, but he is invincible, and no matter how brave he is, he cannot change the attitude of the initiators of the war. Wars in this world are sometimes like a fire, and there is no room for compromise except to be completely extinguished.
Perhaps, it's just that I'm not strong enough. Chen Hui sighed like this, maybe if the master is here, one person can stop this war. Chenhui, who sincerely hoped that this war would end, could never find a way to end it. All he had to do was keep swinging his sword.
No one of the werewolves could stop him and Di Yueluo, and because of the excessive amount of troops invested in these two, the soldiers of the empire finally found the gap of the werewolves in the charge, and began to try to break through to save the two young powerhouses. But if you are really surrounded by an army of 10,000, you will perceive what a huge number of enemies they are. He and Di Yueluo didn't seem to be able to kill this group of enemies. And they began to feel the tidal wave of tiredness coming in.
The Sword of King's Landing in his hand became extremely heavy. At this time, the imperial army that broke through began to play a role in helping Chen Hui and Di Yueluo to kill them.
Fighting with people on the battlefield is a very bloody experience, Chen Hui is a slow man, but eventually he began to give up all thoughts, in order not to want the soldiers of the empire to lose his mind when rescuing him and Di Yueluo, resulting in unnecessary casualties.
Di Yueluo had actually been observing Chen Hui, and he felt disdain in his heart, but there was also a hint of admiration at the moment. Although he was young, he could see at a glance that Chen Hui was struggling in his heart, and he didn't stop for a moment. It's just that it's already like this, but you can still play a sword without regrets, which is really rare. In Di Yueluo's view, only people who have experienced several lives and deaths can have such an attitude.
Just experiencing life and death does not mean understanding life and death.
Therefore, he has always chosen to respect the strong for the weak like ants, because only in this way can he kill people calmly. When he and Chen Hui were both exhausted, he said a word:
"Not all the time, powerful people have the ability to turn the tide, even if you and I are much stronger than these ants, but in the end what we do, it is just the same as what they do, this is the rule, if you can't break it, you have to use it, and even enjoy it."
Chen replied for a moment, the sword in his hand did not stop for a moment, and said with a breath: "This is where I can't agree with you." They have never been ants, I can't stop this war, I do it, like every soldier, I can't do anything but kill the enemy, but I believe that there must be a way to stop the war in this world, and there must be people you think like ants can stop the war! ”
Di Yueluo sneered, he didn't continue this kind of controversy, at least, in his opinion, war is an act of completely eliminating the opposing party's forces. Only the complete extinction of one party will end, and all the death, all the withering in this process, will not have the slightest effect on his will. The same is true of the wolf king's father and son.
They didn't see the possibility of defeat, Di Yueluo and Chen Hui single-handedly killed thousands of wolf soldiers, and the huge war machines were all destroyed, but the wolf people still had the advantage in terms of strength. The most important thing is that the wolf generals are also constantly harvesting imperial soldiers, death is constantly coming, and the god of death does not favor anyone more, if there is really justice on the battlefield, it is death itself.
Chen Hui and Di Yueluo have always been killing enemies. His body was getting more and more tired, and his movements were getting slower and slower, and Chen recalled that he was indeed too weak. Several soldiers have already been harvested by the scimitars of the wolf people in order to save him. He didn't even have time to ask for a name.
He didn't know why he was so obsessed with names, perhaps, only names could represent that they were not tools for meaningless war.
In the past, Chen Hui has turned the tide many times, in Nanban, in Tiankeng City, and in the martial arts conference, he has created miracles, but in the war, all he can do is to continue to kill the enemy like a general. This is where he feels powerless.
In the end, everything was like a confirmation, and he was a little regretful and unwilling. Waiting for the turnaround.
Di Yueluo and Chen Hui's performance did exceed the expectations of the wolf people, but in the end, the empire's army was defeated. Although the two of them had the ability to protect themselves and retreat, they never retreated.
Because the gates of Hongcheng have not yet been opened.
When the battle between the Wanzang tribe and the empire reached a white-hot stage, Chen Hui and Di Yueluo and countless soldiers turned around and saw the gate of Hongcheng from the east open. The remaining army of the Imperial camp broke through the city.
What Chen Hui has never been able to do, at that moment, the scholar and Ding Qiliang did it. The Wolf King and the Zota Zoo brothers finally realized the seriousness of the problem, and they had originally used Hongcheng as a huge fortress and fortification to monitor the movements of the empire's camp and ensure the advance and retreat. After the bronze chariot was destroyed, the reason why they did not withdraw their troops was because Hongcheng was still there, as long as there was Hongcheng, then the people inside could be hostages, and even through the Haotian Sect, they could fight for them, and Hongcheng itself could also be used as a stronghold for them to retreat.
Each of them believed that the Haotian Sect's control over Hongcheng was absolute, and all the people of Hongcheng believed in Haotian and had no reason to betray them. But what he didn't expect was that believing in Haotian and returning to the wolf clan were two different things after all. The scholars sent Wei Chi Ding Qiliang and other masters to infiltrate Hongcheng, and after a large number of masters of the Haotian Sect went to Qinzhou City, the Haotian Sect only had an extremely weak garrison in the church of Hongcheng.
Ding Qiliang showed great courage and defeated several Haotian Sect masters with powerful sword techniques, and finally held a red-clothed priest hostage, and the scholar was the one who interrogated the red-clothed priest.
In the bookkeeper of this inn, the former military advisor of the Imperial Dragon General showed a skill that did not belong to the Ministry of Punishment in the interrogation, and finally the red-clothed priest agreed to let the Imperial army enter the city.
The turning point of this war is the gain and loss of Hongcheng.
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The battle of Hongcheng was exhausting for Chenhui, but it was far less tragic than the battles he had experienced before. As a martial artist, a powerful martial artist who has reached the pinnacle of the rivers and lakes, the threat to him from the soldiers will not be too great.
But this war made Chen Hui begin to doubt himself for a while. In the midst of a war between tens of thousands of people, there is indeed too little he can do. You can't even follow your heart.
The war in the Northern Regions has nothing to do with Chenhui, but as the scholar said, the shopkeeper is not an idle shopkeeper, he is nosy.
Eventually, Chen returned to the battlefield, where he looked out at the snowfields in the distance.
There are many differences between this war and the War in the Western Regions, perhaps it is related to Li Nianyun, who was in the crowd and saw Li Nianyun at a glance.
Li Nianyun was covered with injuries and was unable to fight, which made him feel a little distressed. But what puzzled him even more was the huge sense of depression and decay.
He didn't know how to describe it, he didn't see the scene of the Tie Li army's drug backlash, he only saw countless extremely sick shells.
He didn't know what Li Nianyun was going to do.
This martial arts master with a very stubborn heart in his eyes is in the middle of the battlefield at the moment, in fact, he is also looking for some way to stop the war.
A very different way from Chenhui.
At this time, on the arm of the king of Hades, there was another extremely strong man, who returned from the deepest part of the wind and snow.
(End of chapter)