Fang Zhuang sat on the horse and couldn't raise his head: "General, the last general doesn't dare to say hatred," he gritted his teeth: "It's just ...... If, the general wants to ...... Want...... Can...... Just trapping Fang Hou and not leaking the news is ......"

Knowing that it was delusional, he couldn't help but beg each other: "Ling Fang is willing to exchange all the meritorious officials for being a little caretaker and taking care of Fang Hou for the general!" ”

Zhuo Lingyun laughed: "Ling Fang, Ling Fang, you still don't know Fang Hou. Who is Fang Hou? He can die, but he shouldn't have his claws cut off and trapped in a golden cage! Do you think that saving your life and serving him well throughout your life is worthy of him? If you think like this, it's too insulting to Fang Hou. ”

Ling Fang was silent for a while, and then shouted like an outburst: "The last general doesn't know!" The last general does not know...... General, the last general doesn't know, what can be done to do both! ”

Such a brave man, at the time of this binge, almost shed tears.

A few soldiers in the distance turned their heads in astonishment when they heard the sound, their expressions full of doubts.

"Okay, okay, stop screaming, a big man, what does it look like?" Zhuo Lingyun laughed: "The brothers in the army heard it, and they don't know what kind of enemy is pressing the realm, which makes our brave and fearless General Ling scared!" ”

It should have been a relaxed joke, but unfortunately, Zhuo Ziyun and Ling Fang couldn't laugh. And Zhuo Lingyun finally couldn't laugh.

Where in the world are there so many ways to do both? You will always be forced to choose, to give up, to give up.

Loosening the reins of the horse and letting the horse move forward slowly and freely, Zhuo Lingyun's voice was a little erratic: "I still remember back then, when I first met Fang Hou, I looked down on him very much. thinks that this person is just an embroidered pillow, relying on his good looks and the favor of the little emperor, he can master the military and political power. At that time, I was young and vigorous, and I pretended to be a disciple of the general, and I looked down on me? Whoever enters, except for the promotion of the account, never salutes before him, nor hears his words except for military orders. ”

Those old things, Ling Fang had also heard the generals mention them a lot back then. At the beginning, the young generation of newcomers in the army were not very convinced. Fang Qingchen never minded, elegant and magnanimous, as long as everyone does not miss the military order, he is usually not very respectful to him, but he is happy.

Therefore, he smiled bitterly and whispered, "Yes, I have heard about the past. It is said that the number of times Xiao Yuanfeng was rude to Fang Hou was far more than that of the general. ”

Zhuo Lingyun also smiled lowly: "Yes, our group of hairy boys who sit in the well and watch the sky, all of them have eyes on the top of their heads, who can they look at?" They are all from famous families, they are all from Jiangmen families, and everyone thinks that they are skilled in martial arts, and they should be able to fight invincible opponents all over the world as soon as they come out. When I really went to the battlefield, saw the dead, and was really surrounded by countless enemy troops, I realized how shallow and ignorant I was, and how arrogant and ridiculous I was. ”

Ling Fang responded: "When I followed the general under Fang Hou's tent in the past, I always heard everyone calculating together, how many times who had been saved by Fang Hou, and how many boards had been beaten by Fang Hou......

Zhuo Lingyun's eyes were leisurely, thinking back on the past, and a sad smile unconsciously appeared on his face: "That time, Xiao Yuanfeng and I fought for merit and fell into a heavy siege, it was Fang Hou who entered and went out three times, desperately rushed to kill, and rescued us." At that time, I was seriously injured, I couldn't even ride a horse, Fang Hou he held me in one hand, and the other hand held a gun to fight, the Qin people used arrows to shoot, Fang Hou in order to protect me, he could only use his own arm to block the arrows, and for a long time, his left hand could not be flexible. The doctor in the army said that if he does not recuperate well, he may even be disabled. However, after he was injured like this, after he took me out of the encirclement, he let me go, but went back to save Xiao Yuanfeng. We two stupid boys are the lives that Fang Hou dug up with the eight arrows dug out of his body, countless knife wounds and gunshot wounds! ”

Zhuo Ziyun, who had been silent, finally responded: "I also remember that the eldest brother said that after returning to the camp that time, Fang Hou and the children each beat you with forty military sticks. ”

Zhuo Lingyun laughed: "Yes, you worked hard to get us back and beat us up again." We suffered that beating without complaint, but that night Fang Hou came to visit us with injuries and asked us if we understood why we were punished. ”

At this moment, Zhuo Lingyun's mind was far away, and he had already gone back to the old years: "At that time, we saw that he was injured, and wept bitterly that we hurt Fang Hou and should be punished. ”

Gradually, his voice became smaller, smaller, so small that only he could hear it.

Later, what happened?

Fang Hou began to arrest him and Xiao Yuanfeng, forcing them to relearn the art of war, the battle formation, and the martial arts and military regulations. Gradually, the other young generals in the army also slowly became Fang Hou's disciples who did not formally practice the rite of master and apprentice.

I remember that after Fang Hou worked military affairs every day, no matter how tired he was, he would still carefully read each of them's homework records and experience in the art of war, and then carefully criticize them.

I remember that Fang Hou would carefully observe the martial arts strengths of each of them, and then improve their kung fu skills and teach them everything.

Remember that after each battle, Fang Hou would gather them together, re-push the battle situation on the sand table, repeat the battle, and analyze the gains and losses of each battle situation.

After learning a lot, I realized that Fang Hou's anger was not for injury, but because they were greedy for merit and rash advancement, which affected the offensive and defensive strategy of the whole army. If the punishment is not severe, it is not enough to warn the whole army.

I remember what I was talking about when I suddenly realized it that day?

By the way, it was not guilt and repentance, but deliberately looked at Fang Hou very innocently and innocently and asked: "Fang Hou, as the commander-in-chief, you are in danger to save your generals, should you also be subjected to dozens of military sticks for introspection?" ”

It was rare that Fang Hou couldn't answer for a while, so he had to pick up the ring ruler and beat their heads.

Speaking of which, since Fang Hou began to teach them these young generals seriously, the military tent

It looks like a ring ruler has been placed, but it has never had a deterrent effect

Over the years, their group of senior brothers and sisters have tried their best to deify Fang Hou for the sake of true affection or fame. Outsiders only say that Fang Hou is the god of the army who is admired by thousands of mighty and invincible people, but they don't know that in the army back then, everyone's favorite thing to do was to make fun of Fang Hou.

Fang Hou has a good temper, and everyone likes to bet on who has the ability to make him angry without violating military orders or misleading military conditions.

Fang Hou has great ability, so everyone is trying to win him in a martial arts competition, a horse hunt, or a battlefield battle.

Their young children are even more lawless, they run horses and hunt on weekdays, and when they try martial arts in the army, they have not tried any despicable means in order to win Fang Hou. fed the horses with cathartic medicine, quietly sawed off the saber, and transferred Fang Hou's bow and arrows, speaking of the past, he really did everything......

At that time, what was everyone's greatest wish? Isn't it just to practice the martial arts of the world, learn the best art of war, and one day when you encounter a difficult situation, save him ten times and eight times in one breath, show your face greatly, and repay your kindness!

Looking at the smile on Zhuo Lingyun's face gradually distant, his eyes gradually faded, and the old things in his mouth gradually became unhearable, Zhuo Ziyun and Ling Fang both knew that their main general, at this moment, their minds were already far away.

Neither of them could bear to make a sound, so they only silently rode their horses and followed Zhuo Lingyun, moving forward aimlessly.

At this moment, a group of three people arrived at a small street town market. The market was already depressed, and when I saw a general riding by, the people closed their doors and quietly hid. It's a big town, and it's lifeless. Only the horse's hooves can be obtained, stepping on the bluestone road, breaking the silence. One or two patrol soldiers, patrolling the streets, followed each other from afar, and only then did people know that there were still living people in this town.

"Give my son back! Give me back my son...... My son is only fifteen years old...... He can't go to war...... Give me back my son...... His father and brother are in General Xiao's army, and if they fight, who will kill whom...... Please...... Give my son back to me......"

The woman's hoarse and desperate voice woke Zhuo Lingyun up from the endless past. Feeling that the reins in his hand were firmly grasped, he had been a pride of the party for a long time, and his temper was not small, and he didn't want to think about it, so he waved it down with a whip!

In his ears, he heard Ling Fang's exclamation: "General! ”

Zhuo Lingyun was stunned, his hand was slightly on one side, and the whip was thrown through the air, only then did he see clearly who was disturbing him.

A woman who was so thin that she was only skinny and bones, she didn't look middle-aged, but she was already full of gray hair, sparse and scattered. Ten fingers stretched out, like ghost claws. Such a pair of hands, clutching at the reins of the horse, such a pair of eyes, faint and not like a living person, demented, crazy, just kept repeating: "Give me back my son...... Give me back my son...... My son is only fifteen years old...... He can't go to war......"

Because the three of them were in complicated moods and their thoughts were fluctuating, when such a mad woman rushed in, none of the three battle-hardened warriors had time to pull their horses to avoid them first.

In the moment's hesitation, a group of patrol soldiers rushed to the corner of the street, and pulled the woman away, and the captain of the lead saluted tremblingly, and the soldiers below had pressed the frantically struggling woman to the side of the road.

The woman who seemed to be dying cried out in a frenzy, "Give me back my son, give me back my son...... His father and brother are in General Xiao's army, and if they fight, who will kill whom...... Woo......"

The soldiers, fearing that she would make the commander angry again, tried to cover her mouth, but the woman opened her mouth and bit it, and the soldier grabbed the dirt on the ground and stuffed it into her mouth!

In the blink of an eye, the crazy roar turned into a dull struggle.

"What's going on?" Zhuo Ziyun frowned and asked, "Where did this woman come from, how did you make your rounds?" Actually let her disturb the general? ”

Captain Khan rained: "This woman is from Ershui Town, outside Yong'an City, and her son was conscripted into the army yesterday." This woman is shallow, she does not understand the righteousness of the country, and she knows that the general is stationed here, so she wants to run to the general to ask for a son, and after entering the city, as long as she sees someone wearing armor, she pounces on him and asks for a son, thinking that people have gone crazy. The villains looked at her pitiful and didn't care much about her, but they didn't expect this crazy woman to offend the general, it's all the villains who deserve to die......"

Zhuo Lingyun was already impatient to listen to it anymore, and immediately looked at the woman who was pressed to the ground and gradually lost the strength to struggle.

A piece of clothing full of holes can barely cover the body, and you can see the criss-crossing scars on the body. A pair of tattered shoes, already soaked with blood. Without horses, what kind of courage, what kind of persistence, or what kind of madness does it take for a hungry woman to rush here from Yong'an City in one day?

He silently pulled his horse and walked away without looking at it again.

Zhuo Ziyun hesitated for a moment, whispered a few words to the captain, and then rode his horse with Ling Fang to catch up: "Big brother, I have already instructed you not to embarrass this woman." ”

Zhuo Lingyun was silent, yes, he could not embarrass her, he could give her food, give her drink, and even give her a son. But what's the use?!

His kindness can be extended to a few people, and his decrees still govern all the people under his rule!

On the side, Ling Fang looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but say, "Dashuai, I'm afraid it's going to rain, do you want to ......?"

Zhuo Lingyun listened to it and asked rhetorically: "Ling Fang, you once said that you became a soldier because you wanted to protect your family and defend the country, and you wanted everyone to live a good life. However, all these things I have done over the years, do you blame me? ”

Ling Fang did not hesitate: "If it was back then, I would have hated it, but now, General, I can blame the General." The general may not have done the best, but

I have done my best! In such a world, it is not caused by the general, the general is the thing, and the troubled times will not end because of this. ”

After all the vicissitudes of life, people are growing up. Whether you want to or not, you must understand that everything in this world is not just pure two-color black and white. Right and wrong, right and wrong, many times, it is often impossible to judge clearly.

Zhuo Lingyun smiled bitterly: "Yes, after a lot of experience, I realized that the things we believed in before can indeed be regarded as jokes." Du Siyuan always nagged in my ear, the benevolence of a monarch is different from the benevolence of a woman. After hearing too many such words, it seems that the injustices and despicables that I would scold in the past can really be done with peace of mind now. ”

This is said in a very desolate manner. He used to only fight in the army, resisting the enemy at the border, and felt that all the credit was earned by his own knife and gun, and he never felt that the distant, weak court, the weak and useless little emperor, had made any efforts.

How precious are those endless supplies of military rations, war horses, swords, arrows, bows, and arrows? How rare is it that the war dead have compassion, those who have made meritorious contributions are rewarded, and everyone has no worries about fighting the war?

I don't care, I take it for granted, and I don't think so.

When the world was in chaos, the family and country were scattered, and a lone army went back and forth to conquer and hard to gain a foothold inch by inch, it turned out that when you were in charge, it also meant that you had to prepare for everything.

There were dead people on the battlefield, and the army was reduced, but all parts of the world were enemies, and they were all competitors. In order to maintain combat strength, it is necessary to replenish the strong men with new ones.

The soldiers only fought and did not farm, but they also had to eat, so they had to go to the people to collect grain.

War horses, swords and guns, everything will be lost in the war, and it is necessary to find replenishment from the people.

Meritorious generals and soldiers need rewards, where does the money come from? People, we have protected you, you should always show something.

In this troubled era, almost all the candidates used the same method to drink doves to quench their thirst to expand their power and collect people's wealth. Everyone is fighting around, a territory, today is mine, tomorrow I don't know whose it is, no one will settle down and want to develop, but every time they occupy a place, they will plunder and loot it in the most crazy way.

The strong men were all taken away, the fields were left uncultivated, and after the war disaster, there was famine. And the famine caused an even greater military disaster.

The rebels were about to rebel, so they had to strengthen their military strength, and in order to ensure that the limited food was used on the soldiers, the army had to step up their search.

Everything has become a dead knot, a cycle of terror that can never be reversed.

Zhuo Lingyun didn't know that he should persuade Nong Sang to quell the chaos, but there was Qin Xufei in front of him, and Xiao Yuanfeng in the back, in all directions, and he didn't know how many eyes were staring at him, how could he let his soldiers go back to farming?

Zhuo Lingyun didn't know that the people were in urgent need of relief during the famine, however, as soon as the granary was opened, the enemy army called, how could the hungry soldiers meet the enemy?

saved the people, but lost his career. Keep his career, but if the people under his rule are starving to death and dying of sorrow and helplessness, what is the use of him wanting this hegemony!

How many nights tossed and turned, but the order for conscription still had to be issued. How many cold mornings have been in the wind, but not a single grain of grain in the military arsenal has ever been sent to the people.

is already so ruthless and cruel, why, but on the contrary, there seems to be a little conscience that has not been completely lost.

What is such a self?

He laughed in a low voice: "Ziyun, you say, what should I do?" ”

Zhuo Ziyun was silent for a while before he said in a low voice: "If eldest brother you are like Qin Xufei who holds half of the mountains and rivers and has great power, I will persuade you to make a decision immediately and send Fang Hou on the road." If you are like Jiang Zuo, Wang Zhe, and Lang Lin Jiang Lang, you can only shrink in one place? Save, Ziyun will immediately kneel down and invite the eldest brother to welcome Fang Hou to come to the town. But now, Ziyun really doesn't know how to speak to his eldest brother. ”

There was already a faint sound of thunder in the sky, and endless dark clouds rolled in. The mighty wind is getting stronger and stronger. In the market, there were no pedestrians for a long time, and now even the soldiers patrolling the streets tried to find a place to hide from the rain.

Zhuo Lingyun stood in the roaring wind and said with a smile: "What nonsense. If I control most of the world, I will have a seventy percent chance to dominate the country, in that case, my conscience will be fishing, and I will throw it away and feed the dog in the morning. But I am now in this acre of three points of land, not big, not small...... There is not much hope of winning the world, but it is not nothing, even if it wins Xiao Yuanfeng, and Qin Xufei ......"

Thunder thundered in the sky, and his unfinished words were covered up, and the pouring rain filled the heavens and the earth in a blink of an eye.

In the wind and rain, Zhuo Lingyun suddenly laughed wildly: "Ling Fang, Ziyun!" You will accompany me to let the horse run on him for a while! ”

The rain hit Ling Fang almost couldn't open his eyes, and he persuaded: "General, this rain is too big......

"What about the heavy rain? What kind of wind and rain battlefield we have never experienced! Zhuo Lingyun whipped back and hit the horse hard, and the people and horses were like lightning, galloping forward.

Ling Fang and the others whipped their horses at the same time, and accompanied him to gallop into the wind and rain.