Chapter 139: Coercion yields
The battle, which took months to play, was a comparison of the patience of both sides, and if anyone could not save their breath and make a wrong move, they would make mistakes again and again until they lost the whole game. The Mudgs had more than 100,000 troops, but because of his previous disappointing actions such as ceding tribes, the army was discouraged and unable to concentrate on attacking the new dynasty.
Although the army led by Chang Hui and Wan Nian is only tens of thousands, it is better to unite as one, and with the strong support of the people of Wusun, they do not feel that the disparity in strength is too great against Nimi. Wannian used his former subordinates to recruit some of the soldiers, and when he was extremely angry, he heard the news that the spies came to report that Liu Ye was pregnant, and then he had a plan and turned his worries into joy.
Nimi deliberately retreated into advance, leading Wannian to fall into his trap step by step, exchanging his body for his own way, planting a lot of eyeliner, and instigating Wannian to attack the grassland at night without Chang Hui. Wan Nian was carried away by the temporary victory, and he hated him to the core, and he couldn't wait to send him to Akita Castle to be punished by the world, no matter how Chang Hui persuaded him, he still refused to change his mind.
As Chang Hui expected, this was a trap set by Nimi, who was caught as soon as he entered the grassland, and in the face of the humiliation of Nimi, he hated to die.
Wan Nian would rather die than become a bargaining chip used by Nimi to blackmail Liu Ye, he was tied up by several strong men who were ambushed in advance and couldn't move, he knew that he was on a dead end again this time. However, this is not the end, Nimi tried his best to capture him alive, just to force Liu Ye to comply, as long as he was not given this opportunity, he would not want to get his wish.
Nimi looked at Wan Nian with a sad and angry expression triumphantly, but saw the resolute look in his eyes, as if he had made up some kind of determination. It was too late, it was too late, and the mud grabbed his chin, forcing him to open his mouth.
Wannian's decision was to bite his tongue and commit suicide, and the mistakes he committed should be borne by himself, but Nimi was one step ahead of him, preventing him from thinking of breaking it off on his own. The bitten tongue was bleeding, but it wasn't fatal, and the mud reached out to wipe the bright red blood from his lips, smearing it on his face. Wan Nian glared at him viciously, and scolded indistinctly: "Bastard, animal, I won't let you go if I am a ghost......"
"Don't worry, I won't let you die, without you, I really don't know how to fight this battle. Moreover, the queen and I have been separated for many days, and it is always necessary to be prepared to see each other again, so I have to give my beloved queen a big gift! Nimi slapped his cheek, harder and harder, his eyes were still full of smiles, "You, you've been so stubborn since you were a child, you can't fight me, don't you still understand?" I said you would pay the price, why don't you listen, I won't kill you, because it will be useful to keep you, good brother, fortunately you came. ”
Wan Nian shook his head violently, wanting to get rid of his restraints, Ni Mi let go of his hand, took the handkerchief handed over by the guard, wiped the blood on the back of his hand repeatedly, and his brows were wrinkled into a Sichuan shape, full of disgust and disgust.
"Nimi, you unconscionable beast, I won't let you be satisfied, what do you think you are, do I want you to nod my head if I live or die? Hmph, since I'm here tonight, I haven't thought about going back alive, and I'll never leave you any chance! Wan Nian raised his head and stared at his rival with wide eyes, "The new dynasty will soon occupy this grassland, and you, the king, will not be able to do it for a few days, I am just one step ahead of you, I am waiting for you in the underworld, haha......"
"Zhao Ziqing, you have really changed, how gentle and elegant you were when you were a child, I even have some jealousy, because you are really talented. However, why are you only old and not brainy, are you going crazy when you want to prove yourself for so many years? You keep saying that I have lost my conscience and will do whatever it takes to ascend to the throne, so what about you? How much better are you than me? Aren't you also full of yearning for power, don't say anything like repaying your father, queen and mother, and don't say that you sacrifice your ego to fulfill the righteousness! Bullshit, it's all bullshit! ”
Nimi sat down and looked at him coldly: "You and I are the same kind of people, relying on yourself and a little smart, you are not willing to fall behind, unwilling to live a dull life, always think that you were born extraordinary, and sooner or later you will have to make some achievements." It's a pity that you don't have an innate royal identity, no matter how hard you work, you can only be a courtier, and you can be a cow and a horse for a lifetime. Yes, I admit that you are a man of ability and ambition, and if you are king, you must be able to make a difference, but so what? It's just if, you can never become the king of Wusun, you can never compare with me! ”
"In this grassland, there are too many capable and capable men, but there is only one king of the grassland, and that is me! It's useless not to be convinced, that's the truth! Sometimes I think that if the queen didn't support you back then, you might be like ordinary people, marrying a wife, having children, herding horses and sheep, and living a peaceful life. And if I hadn't come from a royal family, I would have been like this, maybe we could really be good brothers, and when we have nothing to do, we can sit together and drink and chat, full of hope for the future. ”
Wan Nian lowered his head, has he really changed? Why did Nimi see through his heart? Since his father's death, he decided to become a strong man with his own strength, and he didn't want to send people under the fence anymore, and finally ended up dying in a foreign land. Liu Ye and Weng Guimi treated him very well, but after all, it was not as good as his biological father, but more out of guilt and compensation. He wasn't an ungrateful man, and he didn't want to owe much to others, so he went the extra mile to prove that he wasn't worthless.
I remember when he won the first battle, he was very happy, as if he had the whole world, but the next few victories, blurred this happy feeling, everything became a matter of course, he was not an ordinary person in the first place, he was capable of doing all this. He was only seventeen years old when Weng Guimi named him the Great General of Wusun, and this honor was supreme in the eyes of others, and he was really excited about it for a long time. But again, this happiness did not last long, and his heart was like a bottomless pit, and no amount of praise could fill it. He always felt that he could do better, that he could have more.
The antagonism between him and Nimi may have started from the first meeting, when he was beaten by Nimi and his head was bleeding, but he didn't even dare to say a word, because he was afraid that offending Wusun Kunmo's son would bring trouble to his father, he knew that their identities were very different, even if he was killed, his father would not dare to find Wusun Kunmo's theory.
When he grew up, he became the general of Wusun, who was born in an orthodox world, but no one cared about him, shrouded in the aura of various honors, and his heart began to change. He is not necessarily worse than mud, he just doesn't have a good background, but he doesn't have a good background, and he can make up for it by his own efforts, and the memory of being bullied as a child is clearly imprinted on his heart, and what he couldn't think of before is now very likely to come true.
He wants to pull the mud down from the clouds and trample on the soles of his feet, so that the former noble son can also taste the taste of being bullied. He believed in his own abilities, and he believed that he was worthy of being superior to the mud.
It turned out that he overestimated himself, and the result was that he lost, even if his ability was stronger than Nimi, even if he put in more effort than Nimi, he, a great general, was still not qualified to compare with the high-ranking Kunmo. All people are not created equal, and no matter how much effort you put in, you can't get what doesn't belong to you. And some people often get everything they dream of without much effort.
Wan Nian was deeply tired, and he began to wonder why he had tried so hard to find nothing. He does not expect to replace Nimi as king, he just wants to punish an incompetent king. Why did he lose so badly, he sacrificed happiness and love, just to get a fair treatment!
Lost, this time he lost completely! In vain his father's expectations of the queen mother, in vain in General Chang's teachings, and in vain in his father's love for him! He didn't cherish himself well, and spent his whole life just to witness a cruel truth!
Wan Nian closed his eyes, he wanted to retain the only remaining dignity, and he could not shed tears in front of the mud no matter what. A manly man, who sheds blood without tears, he remembers this sentence firmly.
"Looks like you've resigned yourself to your fate...... Nimi observed his expression and nodded with satisfaction, "That's right, you should be self-aware, coveting things that don't belong to you will only make you too tired." ”
Wan Nian sneered: "This is for yourself, you finally sat on the throne, you dare to covet more, you deserve to be tortured." ”
"You don't understand, you really don't understand. If you are really in love with a woman, torture is also joyful. There was a psychedelic look in his eyes.
"Love?" Wan Nian repeated, laughing even louder, "I heard me right, people like you can also say love? Muddy, muddy, you are so disgusting, you don't know what love is, and no one will love you, you poor worm who wants to love and wants to go crazy......"
"Shut up!" Ni Mi got up and rushed over, raised his hand and gave him a few slaps, making his eyes burst into gold stars, "Zhao Ziqing, you are now my prisoner, you are not qualified to make irresponsible remarks in front of me." Do you want to die? Whatever you want, but I tell you, even if you die, I have a way to get the queen back. Do you believe it or not? Do you dare to bet with me? ”
Nimi's almost crazy face, Wan Nian looked at it and felt a chill in his heart, he was indeed crazy, he could do it. Even if he gives everything, he wants to get what he wants.
"You don't believe it? Still don't believe me? Nimi grabbed Nimi's hair and forced him to face himself, "Queen, like you, she doesn't care about her own life, but she is more stupid than you, she will sacrifice herself for the sake of irrelevant people, and other people's lives are always more important than her own." ”
"Zhao Ziqing, Wan Nian, you have been her son for so many years, and you have shed blood and sold your life for Wusun, there is no merit and hard work, she will not watch you die." Ni Mi freed up a hand, pulled out his sword from his waist and pointed at Wan Nian, "I said that I would give her a big gift, which will be unforgettable for her life, and she will return to me without hesitation......"
Wan Nian stared at the snowy blade, and his heart jumped wildly, and when he met a crazy guy like Nimi, even death became a luxury. He didn't know how Nimi would torture his mother, he regretted it, he really deserved to die.
When Chang Hui found out that Wan Nian was missing, he thought that he was likely to attack the mud at night. Chang Hui didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly explained the beginning and end to Shizhong, who immediately went to Chigu City and told Liu Ye about the Ten Thousand Years of Assassination.
"Ten thousand years in the hands of the mud?" Liu Ye exclaimed, his body shook, and he almost fell to the ground.
Tu Qitang hurriedly hugged her: "Ye'er, don't worry, I'll go and rescue Wannian." ”
"No, it's useless." Liu Ye grabbed Tu Qitang and said sadly, "If the muddy design is caught for ten thousand years, it will not be easy for people to rescue him, and if you go, I'm afraid it will be dangerous, and I can't afford to deal a bigger blow." Don't go, I won't let you go. ”
Tu Qitang was afraid that she would hurt her body when she was emotional, so he comforted: "Okay, okay, I won't go, you calm down, and we'll think about countermeasures." ”
Qing Ling was so anxious that he turned around: "This ten thousand years, I am not usually very clever, why did I make a mistake at a critical moment." Even General Chang could see the deceit, and he rushed forward with all his might. General Chang knew that he had fallen into the hands of Nimi, and he was almost about to lead his troops to kill him, if it hadn't been for the repeated obstruction of the division, I was afraid that the whole army would have been wiped out by now. ”
Liu Ye's eyes were red, and he snuggled up to Tu Qitang's chest, only to feel that his chest was uncomfortable, and he was about to lose his breath: "What should I do, what should I do now?" Do you want me to give up the new dynasty? ”
"No, never!" Qing Ling hurriedly stopped, "Queen, if you give up now, then we really won't have a way to live." He is ruthless, how can he tolerate Wusun having two Kunmo, he has several times more soldiers in his hands than us, so he is not afraid that we will fight with him. But what about the people of the new dynasty? What about the ministers who came to defect to the new dynasty? There is also Yuan Guimi, his situation is the most dangerous, if Nimi fights, the first one will not let him go. ”
"I know, I know ......" Liu Ye panicked and lost his mind, and looked at Tu Qitang with tears in his eyes, "But he is in danger for ten thousand years, I can't turn a blind eye, the palm of the hand is meat, the back of the hand is also meat, they are all my children." Wan Nian lost his parents since he was a child, he is very sensible and well-behaved, carefully pleasing me, and has made more efforts than others, this child has suffered too many grievances, I am his dependence, I can't let him down. Yuan'er is the last entrustment of the first king, I have failed the first king too much, I have to keep Yuan'er no matter what. ”
"What should I do, what should I do?" Liu Ye cried and fell into Tu Qitang's arms, breathing rapidly, as if he was about to faint.
"Qingling, quick, you can show her quickly......" Tu Qitang put Liu Ye flat on the low couch and pinched her person hard, and Qingling also rushed over to give her a needle.
"Master, I'll let the queen sleep well now, she should be fine when she wakes up, let's go, don't disturb her." Qing Ling pulled down Tu Qitang, "Master Shi is still waiting outside the hall, he was afraid that the queen would be too sad, so he asked me to relay it, I didn't expect me to be so useless......"
"You've done your best." Tu Qitang glanced at Liu Ye, who was asleep, and quietly walked away, "Okay, let's go see Master Shi." ”
After a while, Liu Ye woke up, silently shedding tears, looking at the beams above his head in a daze. Suddenly, a palace maid tiptoed in, knelt on the edge of the couch and whispered, "Queen, Wusun Kunmo has sent you a gift." ”
Liu Ye was stunned, looked at this eye-wrenching palace maid, glanced at the purple wooden box in her hand, and said in a deep voice: "Who are you?" How did you get in here? ”
The palace maid smiled slightly and presented the wooden box: "The origin of the slave and maid does not matter, but if the queen misses this gift, she will definitely regret it for the rest of her life." ”
Liu Ye sat up, biting his lip and looking at the wooden box, there was no need to ask if this person was sent by Nimi, but when did she sneak into the palace, why no one noticed anything unusual, it still made Liu Ye uneasy. Nimi was able to install eyeliner in the new dynasty, did she also grasp her recent situation?
The palace maid saw Liu Ye's hesitation, knelt a few steps forward, raised the wooden box and said, "Please take a look at the queen." ”
"If you blatantly break in, aren't you afraid that you will die and go back?" Liu Ye naturally couldn't open the box without asking the reason.
The palace maid smiled disapprovingly: "The life of a slave is as humble as a mustard, how can it be compared to General Wusun!" ”
Liu Ye's heart was shocked, and he said in a trembling voice: "Cheap maid, Hugh is alarmist. ”
"Whether it's alarmist or not, the queen will know when she opens the box and sees." The palace maid simply put the wooden box on Liu Ye's lap, got up and stood aside, "In the mouth of Kunmo, please ask the queen to return to the court immediately, otherwise, you will bear the consequences." ”
Liu Ye felt the weight of the wooden box, and the chill in the depths of her heart quickly spread to her whole body, her legs began to tremble, and the wooden box shook back and forth, Liu Ye hurriedly held the box with both hands, and after taking a few deep breaths, he slowly opened the wooden box.
"Ah......" Before Liu Ye could scream, she was covered by the palace maid next to her with Luo Pa, her eyes burst into tears, her hands pinched the wooden box tightly, and green tendons appeared on the back of her hands.
In the wooden box was a bloody severed hand, the white bones on the wrist were clearly visible, and the round scars on the back of the hand that had become purple-gray could be faintly recognized, which was the imprint of ten thousand years of fighting on the battlefield. There are hundreds of large and small scars on Wan Nian's body, most of which were injured by himself when he was practicing martial arts too hard. I remember that once in Wannian, he fell from a horse, knocked over the stable, broke his muscles and bones, couldn't move half of his body, and his whole arm was bloody and blurry.
Liu Ye personally took care of him for half a year, until he was able to get out of bed and walk, and there was a scar the size of a copper coin on the back of his right hand, which was pierced by broken wood, and this scar has not healed to this day.
"Ten thousand, ten thousand years...... Liu Ye called out with difficulty, holding the wooden box in both hands, reluctant to put it down, and whimpered, "Child, my child, the queen mother failed to protect you......"
The palace maid didn't have the patience to listen to her crying, and said hurriedly: "He's not dead yet, but he just broke a hand, if the queen doesn't go back, the next thing Kunmo will give you is his broken corpse." ”
Liu Ye shook his head back and forth: "Don't, don't, don't ......"
"Queen, will you go?" The palace maid dragged Liu Ye up from the couch and asked.
Liu Ye closed the wooden box, closed his eyes, and nodded tearfully: "Okay, I'll go with you to see him." ”