Chapter 174: Conquest and Killing (1)

In the months since the end of the last battle on Tongtian Ridge, Ling Xingnan has never appeared in the world again, as if he had disappeared immediately after that battle, and no one has ever seen his whereabouts again.

But the more he was like this, the more mysterious he became.

Especially in such chaotic times, it is rare to appear the embodiment of a hero, a god-like legend.

Even many people who are suffering in times of danger still chant his name, hoping to be rescued by him and wait for him to appear.

However, the world has suffered for a long time, and there are so many people who have suffered, how can things in the world be as they should be?

Moreover, he is not a real God, and even if he is a real God, can God save the world? Can God really save all the world? I am afraid that it is unlikely!

In fact, the only people who can really save the world are the people themselves!

Some people say that God does not exist, while others say that God is everywhere!

Does God exist or not? Throughout the ages, many people have said that it is painted. For thousands of years, tens of thousands of years have passed, and there is no conclusion!

However, I dare to say that if there is a god in this world, it must be the continuous derivation of all things in heaven and earth (including human beings themselves).

Man is God, and God can be man.

It may be understandable for people in the world to think of God's blessing when they are in danger, but it is impossible to think too much about God's help in everything that is godly.

If there really is a god in this world, God is not like anyone who will help him! God only helps those who should help, and God only blesses those who should be helped.

Only people can help others at any time, and it is better to rely on ourselves than to ask for others, and we ourselves are our ultimate gods.

At any time, only others help others, only self helps themselves.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was already in turmoil. And this year is the most chaotic time. The Tang Dynasty has long been in turmoil, with internal and external troubles, and the people are struggling to make a living.

In particular, the peasant uprising led by Huang Chao was pushed to the first place, swept the whole country, and in just one or two years, there was a tendency to destroy the Tang Dynasty, and the peasant uprising army led by Huang Chao killed all the way from the south to Chang'an, the Tang capital.

Just a few days ago, the Huangchao Righteous Army and the Tang Dynasty army attacked and defended each other in a city for two days, because some ordinary people assisted in defending the city, and did not want the Huangchao Righteous Army to break the city on the day, but provoked Huangchao to order the righteous army to slaughter the city, regardless of men, women and children, chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep in the city, all of them were killed, and suddenly more than 200,000 people in the city were slaughtered, and none of the fresh animals were spared.

Since then, the title of the Huangchao Righteous Army has been named the title of the Murder Legion by the people with lofty ideals in the world, and many of the soldiers with benevolent intentions in the righteous army have left one after another, but the Huangchao Righteous Army is powerful, it is the rabble of the world, after all, there are still hundreds of thousands of people who march to Chang'an City.

Also because of the Huangchao slaughter all the way up, the Huangchao Righteous Army seems to call itself a murderous army, and there is no greater obstacle wherever it goes, because it is afraid that the day the city will be broken and slaughtered by the Huangchao Righteous Army, all the towns along the way will surrender, until the Tang capital Chang'an is conquered.

Sure enough, when Huang Chao tried many times, he left a poem thrown down from Chang'an: "When autumn comes on September 8, I will kill all the flowers in white; ”

That murderous oath was fulfilled.

On this day, the Huangchao army broke through the Tang capital Chang'an, and there were still many Tang troops near Chang'an City desperately resisting the offensive of the Huangchao army, and some of the main forces of the Tang army had escorted the emperor and members of the royal family and important members of the court to flee in the direction of Xichuan on the day of the city break.

However, on the one hand, the Huangchao army had just broken through Chang'an City, the political situation was unstable, the world was undecided, and all kinds of ruins were waiting to be rebuilt, so most of the troops were left behind to guard the center of the world at that time.

In addition, Huang Chao also sent 200,000 elite troops to chase and kill the officials and soldiers who escorted the Tang Dynasty emperor to Xichuan, which had the intention of ending the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop.

In particular, the commander of the 200,000 army sent by Huang Chao turned out to be an extremely mysterious and evil person, and the people in the Tang army only called him the Ending Demon, and even more said that there was no city that could not be attacked, and there was no enemy that could not be defeated;

And this person is extremely powerful, ruthless, kills people like hemp, often enters thousands of armies to take 10,000 heads, the whole city and the whole pool are slaughtered, and the slightest resistance in a city and a pool is a river of blood, so this person is called the absolute main force under the command of Huang Chao, almost no one can match.

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Tang Army who escorted the emperor to escape heard that it was a mysterious general under Huang Chao who came to chase and kill them, many people felt a chill in their hearts.

Even the Tang Emperor who was chased and fled in a hurry trembled with fright when he heard it. Fortunately, along with the Tang Emperor's Tang army, there were also Princess Pinglan, Lai Jingjiu and his wife, and many martial arts masters of 'Light Xiaozhu', otherwise the Tang Army's remnants would have been chased and killed by the imposing Huangchao army.

At noon on this day, the Tang Dynasty army had been chased by the Huangchao army, and there was not even a moment of rest from morning to this time, and they were still constantly exhausted, and the morale of tens of thousands of troops was extremely low.

At this time, where did the Tang Emperor, who had been pampered since childhood, suffer so much, and really began to order his subordinates to find a place to rest, intending to fill their stomachs before hurrying, but they couldn't listen to the persuasion of the accompanying courtiers at all, and the tens of thousands of troops soon stopped.

Princess Pinglan and Lai Jingjiu, who were blocking the Huangchao army in the rear, and the evacuation time that they had won by ambushing the Huangchao army many times along the way was gradually lost under the emperor's order.

In this way, Princess Pinglan and Lai Jingjiu were naturally so popular that they couldn't speak for a long time.

"Hey, my royal brother...... It's all at such a juncture, he can't even endure this little bit of hardship! Could it be that the foundation of my Tang Dynasty for more than 200 years is really going to be destroyed in his hands?" Princess Pinglan stood on a high slope next to the official road in a purple uniform, she looked at the dust gradually rising a few miles away at the end of the official road, and sighed faintly.

Behind her were Lai Jingjiu, Gong Feiyan and other light Xiaozhu masters, after several major battles in a row, many of these people seemed to have been injured.

"Lan'er, the Huangchao army is less than ten miles away from here, if you don't persuade your imperial brother to speed up the journey, it is very likely that he and the Tang army will not be able to leave. Gong Feiyan stood not far behind Princess Pinglan and reminded.

"Master, I and some ministers have already gone to persuade my imperial brother just now, but the imperial brother didn't listen to our advice at all, and insisted on having lunch before leaving......" Princess Pinglan said without replying.

"Hmph, it's a good country...... It is really annoying that we have been made into the way we are now, and now we are being chased like lost dogs!" Lai Jingjiu, who was not far away, heard Princess Pinglan's reply, and immediately said angrily.

When Princess Pinglan heard what Lai Jingjiu said, she immediately withdrew her gaze from afar, and said with a little embarrassment: "It's all my fault, this time it's really affecting you, master, ......."

Seeing this, Gong Feiyan had no choice but to step forward and comfort: "Actually, it's no wonder Lan'er, you have done enough for the Tang Dynasty...... If you want to blame, you can only blame you, the imperial brother, for having no ambitions, and for not achieving anything since he took charge of the imperial power, but the emperor has fallen into the hands of the traitorous party, and has not argued right and wrong for a long time, and has been completely blinded by eunuchs and traitors......"

"Yes, the most hateful thing is that Wu De actually colluded with Huang Chao in advance to make trouble, and led his soldiers and horses to join Huang Chao's murderous army...... Otherwise, the Tang Army would not have been defeated so quickly this time! Hmph, if Wu De's gang fell into my hands one day, I would definitely chop him alive......" Lai Jingjiu said angrily again on the side.

Princess Pinglan listened to what Lai Jingjiu and his wife said, so she sighed faintly a few times and said: "Alas, the disciple also knows that my imperial brother has never done anything, and I have persuaded him many times, but my imperial brother can't listen to it at all. If he was willing to listen to me back then, he didn't listen to the words of a group of traitors waiting for the DPRK, and how many loyal and courageous people like Lord Qin Fenqin would have made up the situation today...... Alas, maybe that's all I can do for the Tang Dynasty, but I'm afraid that it will affect the master and all the brothers and sisters......"

Gong Feiyan saw Princess Pinglan's pitiful look, and when she saw it, she really couldn't bear it, and continued to comfort: "Lan'er, don't think about it, this time I, your uncle, and all the senior brothers and sisters will try our best to help you! But how long the Tang Dynasty court can hold on, this question is really hard to say! The prosperity and decline of a dynasty cannot be changed overnight, nor can it be changed by one or two people, you must be mentally prepared......

Princess Pinglan listened to Gong Feiyan's persuasion, and immediately fell silent, as if Gong Feiyan's words had touched something in her heart that she didn't want to face.

At this time, several figures suddenly galloped from the end of the avenue, and these figures roared and warned while galloping.

When everyone looked at the avenue a few miles behind the figures, they found that the dust on the distant avenue was sweeping the sky, and the sound of horses' hooves came from the distance.

"It's not good, the Huangchao army really caught up......" Everyone saw the several figures galloping over, and naturally understood what the sand and dust swept over the avenue meant, and some people exclaimed in a little panic.

"Master, the 50,000 elite pioneers of the Huangchao army have chased them two miles away! they will soon be here......" Before the several figures made by the wind galloped came closer, they heard a young man with a knife in front of him shouting loudly.

"I didn't expect these Huangchao troops to come so quickly! Everyone quickly prepared for battle, Lan'er hurriedly sent the order to the Tang army soldiers who were in charge of the break, and we will rely on the slope and terrain here to block them for a while......" Lai Jingjiu saw that the situation was urgent, so he didn't say anything more, and immediately said decisively.

Princess Pinglan and everyone heard this, and they all got ready, and Princess Pinglan ordered the soldiers of the Tang Army who were in charge of the broken to immediately hide on the slope of the hill on the side of the avenue, the archers were on the crossbow, and the cavalry infantry was ready to attack.

The mighty Huangchao army is really murderous, and when the whole team of cavalry rushes over, there is a momentum of autumn wind sweeping the leaves, which makes people see at a glance that it is the victor's army.

At the forefront of the charge were all groups of thousands of ironclad soldiers riding tall horses, each of them with a thousand people, each holding a spear in his hand, a saber hanging from his waist, and the mixed body was shrouded in iron armor and steel helmets, leaving only two eyes that exuded crimson color to be exposed.

After such a long-distance attack, the team was still very neat, without the slightest hint of fatigue, and it was obviously an elite mobile soldier who was skilled in long-distance raids.

Before these ironclad cavalry swept to the slope of the hill where the Tang army was hidden, they collectively stopped, and did not blindly rush forward again; until the follow-up teams arrived one after another, the officers and men of the Second Army on both sides of the avenue were all patiently waiting for the moment of the imminent decisive battle.