Looking at Tang Mingzhu, who was laughing wildly and her facial features were distorted, Shangguan Xiu no longer knew what to say to her, and now she was like she was in a rage, no matter what she said to her, she didn't seem to be able to listen to her.

After laughing wildly for a long time, Tang Mingzhu stopped laughing, looked at Shangguan Xiu, and said: "If Your Highness can still remember your friendship with Zhu'er, give Zhu'er a cup of bar, Zhu'er would rather die in the hands of His Highness than die under Tang Ling's knife." ”

Shangguan Xiu's lips moved, and finally he didn't speak, got up and walked out.

"Your Highness, Shangguan Xiu!" Shangguan Xiu had already walked out of the cell and stood outside the door, and Tang Mingzhu's shout came from the cell. He stopped, but didn't turn around.

Tang Mingzhu quickly stood up and said quietly: "If I say that half of my plan to assassinate the monarch is for myself and the other half for you, do you believe it?"

Shangguan Xiu stood for a moment, didn't say anything, and walked forward.

Without getting a response from him, Tang Mingzhu took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and slowly slid back to the ground, two lines of tears sliding down his face.

The last person Shangguan Xiu saw was should be and Ziyin.

Seeing Shangguan Xiu coming in from outside, he and Ziyin hurriedly got up from the ground, walked quickly to Shangguan Xiu's approach, knelt on the ground, burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness!"

"Get up!" Shangguan Xiu waved his hand to the two of them. Cai Dang and Ziyin didn't dare to get up, maintained a posture of knocking forward, and said in a choked voice: "Brother Xiu, my subordinates know that they are wrong. ”

Shangguan Xiu looked down at the two of them, and now he knew his mistake, but it was too late. He said faintly, "Do you two know what crime you committed this time?"

When Kazuko was invisible, he was shocked, and sweat was like rain. Almost all of them have colluded with the traitorous party, murdered the king, rebelled, and committed the crime of unforgiveness.

He snorted and said with a crying voice: "My subordinates know that this time the blame is inescapable, I just ask Brother Xiu to give my subordinates a good time!"

Not being punished, even if it was just beheading, it was a great blessing for the two of them. Shangguan Xiu's gaze fell on Caidang and Ziyin for a while, then walked to the meadow on the side and sat down. He raised his head and said, "Yufei!"

The cell door opened, Wu Yufei walked in from the outside, she first looked at He Ziyin, her eyes darkened, and she bowed to Shangguan Xiu and said, "Brother Xiu!"

"Let Lord You prepare two jugs of wine. ”

"Yes! Brother Xiu!" Wu Yufei nodded in agreement, glanced at Guidang and Ziyin again, sighed secretly, and turned around and walked out.

After a short time, Wu Yufei came in with two jailers, set up a square table in the cell, and then put a wine jug and wine cup, and rarely, four plates of side dishes came up.

Shangguan Xiu waved his hand to Caidang and Ziyin and said, "Get up, speaking of which, we haven't drunk together for a long time." ”

His words, listening to the ears of Cadang and Ziyin, were like knives, and the heads of the two of them were on the ground, crying loudly.

Shangguan Xiu didn't say anything more, he lifted the wine jug, filled the three glasses with wine, picked up the wine glass in front of him, raised his head, and drank the wine in the glass.

He picked up the flask, poured another glass, and drank it all the same. In one breath, he drank three glasses of wine in a row, and his eyes fell on Cai Dang and Ziyin again, and asked Youyou: "Won't you both accompany me to finish this last drink?"

When he and Ziyin stopped crying one after another, slowly raised their heads, and looked at Shangguan Xiu, who was sitting at the table, pouring himself a drink, and the two of them couldn't cry and said, "Brother Xiu......"

Shangguan Xiu muttered: "I have been fighting on the battlefield for nearly eight years, and I don't know how many brothers around me, my soul is in a foreign land, and my blood stains the battlefield, these brothers who sacrificed their lives for the country are singing and crying, sad and respectable, and even more distressing, but why not you?"

Sacrificing one's life for the country and dying well is also the highest honor for a soldier, even if he dies, he can be among the martyrs hall and be admired and worshiped by thousands of descendants. But what is the death of Dedang and Ziyin, it can only be regarded as scum, and it will only be spurned by future generations.

Shangguan Xiu would rather the two of them die on the battlefield than see them executed with infamy.

Both Ying and Ziyin understood what Shangguan Xiu meant, and they could also feel his anger, anger and distress when he hated the two of them.

Both of them have nothing to say, this path was chosen by the two of them themselves, no one is to blame, if they want to blame, they can only blame the two of them themselves, they failed to withstand the temptation.

Looking at Dang and Ziyin, who were hanging their heads and crying silently, Shangguan Xiu held his forehead and said in a low voice: "Accompany me to drink this last bar!"

"Brother Xiu-" should be when he and Ziyin both raised their heads.

"He and Ziyin must die. Shangguan Xiu met the gaze of the two of them and said word by word.

He said it decisively, and he also extinguished the last glimmer of hope in the heart of He Ziyin. The two of them picked up their glasses and drank all the wine in their glasses. He picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine for himself and Ziyin, he picked up the cup and said to Shangguan Xiu Zhengse: "I should never regret following Brother Xiu, I can follow Brother Xiu, and I have been fighting in the north and south for several years, which is the greatest luck in my life, I only hate, I should be disappointed by my own disappointment!" After speaking, he drank all the wine in the cup again.

Ziyin also picked up the wine glass, saluted Shangguan Xiu, and drank the wine in one gulp.

Shangguan Xiu looked at them with deep eyes and said: "I said, he and Ziyin must die, this is an explanation to His Majesty, and it is also an explanation to all the ministers in the court, but you two may still be able to live." ”

He Ziyin's eyes widened in unison, and he looked at Shangguan Xiu in shock and horror. What does Brother Xiu mean by this? Should he and Ziyin die, but the two of them can still live?

Ziyin was smart and thorough, and asked in surprise: "Brother Xiu means impostor?"

Shangguan Xiu ignored Ziyin's question, and said to Wu Yufei, who was standing aside, "Yufei, bring Zhu'er over." ”

Wu Yufei was stunned, nodded in response, and walked out quickly. It didn't take long for her to bring Tang Mingzhu in from outside.

Seeing Shangguan Xiu, Ying Dang and Ziyin sitting in the prison cell, Tang Mingzhu's face was full of confusion, and he didn't understand what was going on and why he brought himself here.

Shangguan Xiu waved his hand to Tang Mingzhu and motioned for her to sit down, and then he turned his head to look at Wu Yufei. The latter nodded knowingly, walked out of the cell, and stood outside.

His gaze slowly swept over Tang Mingzhu, Caidang, and Ziyin, picked up the wine glass, and said: "From now on, Zhu'er is no longer the county lord, as you wish, you are no longer called Tang Mingzhu, and you should be and Ziyin are no longer called should be and Ziyin, under the Fengguo system, there is no place for you anymore, go to the Western Regions, in your lifetime, don't step into the wind again."

"Go to the Western Regions, go incognito, whether you live or die, it depends on your respective lives, this is the limit of what I can do. After speaking, Shangguan Xiu drank the wine dry, and slowly put the empty wine glass on the table. He stood up and walked out with heavy steps.

"Brother Xiu (Your Highness)!" Tang Mingzhu, Gaidang, and Ziyin were stunned for a while before they came back to their senses, and when they saw that Shangguan Xiu was about to walk out of the cell, the three of them shouted in unison.

Shangguan Xiu stopped, looked back at the three of them, the corners of his mouth hooked, and said with a smile: "Tonight, I will send someone over to pick you up." ”

"Brother Xiu......" should be when He Ziyin knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

Shangguan Xiu smiled: "You have no regrets following me, and I have never regretted having a brother like you, take care all the way." ”

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Tang Mingzhu, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Zhu'er is a girl, on the road, you two must take care of her and protect her." ”

Tang Mingzhu clutched the hem of his clothes, bit his lower lip, lowered his body, knelt down, and said in a choked voice: "Brother-in-law!"

Because of her background, she has always been very sensitive, and she can always tell who is sincere to her and who is false to her.

Shangguan Xiu gave her the affection that made her infatuated, and it was precisely because she wanted to monopolize this hard-won affection that she regarded Tang Ling as a thorn in her side and regarded her as her biggest stumbling block.

She said that she murdered Tang Ling, half for herself and half for Shangguan Xiu, which was not a lie.

Shangguan Xiu looked at Tang Mingzhu, who was already crying, his lips moved, but after all, he still didn't speak, he didn't stay anymore, he didn't dare to stay anymore, and walked out of the cell quickly.

Outside, his eyes were also wet red. Tang Mingzhu, Gaidang, and Ziyin are all people around him, and they are also the people closest to him, but this farewell will become a farewell, and the torment that Shangguan Xiu endures in his heart is not inferior to the three of them.

That night, Jun Shengtian wrote a letter to the Jun Mansion in accordance with Shangguan Xiu's request, ordering all the Yong Champions of the Jun family to gather in the Duwei Division.

The brave champions of the Jun family, there are not many of them, but there are thousands of them, Shangguan Xiu is not polite to these people at all, showing his usual iron-blooded and ruthless side, instructing You Ling to execute all of them, leaving no one behind.

The champion of the warrior is the capital of the Jun family, and cutting off the champion of the Jun family is equivalent to pulling out the minions and wings of the Jun family, and the strength of the Jun family will naturally decrease sharply, and there will be no capital to confront the imperial court.

Among the Yong Champions, Duan Qiyue singled out two substitutes of the same age and appearance as Gaidang and Ziyin, cut off their tongues, poured mercury on their ears, and then threw them into the dungeon, replacing Caidang and Ziyin.

As for Tang Mingzhu's substitute ghost, it was provided by Phantom Yan, a little girl from Yuhua Building.

It was Duan Qiyue who took Tang Mingzhu, Caidang, and Ziyin out of the Duwei Division, and sent the three of them out of the city.

When they arrived outside the city, Duan Qiyue stopped and said to the three of them: "I can only send you here, and next, someone will send you to Shah, and then you have to go by yourself." ”

Tang Mingzhu, Gaidang, and Ziyin bowed to Duan Qiyue in return, and then, the eyes of the three of them looked back in unison. Duan Qiyue knew what they were watching, sighed lightly, and said, "Don't look any further, Brother Xiu won't come!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand back, and a carriage drove by. Duan Qiyue raised his eyes to look at the sky and said, "Let's go, it's going to be dawn." ”

Tang Mingzhu, Gaidang, and Ziyin looked at each other, and then arched their hands to Duan Qiyue and said, "General Duan, thank you." ”

Duan Qiyue owed a debt on his horse and said, "There is some gold and silver on the carriage, which can be used for your journey. After arriving in the Western Regions, be cautious, be more careful, and take care!"

"General Duan, take care!" The three of them dismounted, boarded the carriage, and entered the carriage, Tang Mingzhu lifted the curtain, stretched out his little head, and raised his eyes to look at the head of Tianjing City.

It's a pity that the distance is too far away, and the night is too dark, she can't see anything clearly, but she has a feeling that Shangguan Xiu is standing at the head of the city, right there, looking at them.

She felt right. At this time, Shangguan Xiu was indeed standing at the head of the city, holding the arrow battlement, looking out of the city. Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Brother Xiu really doesn't plan to see him off?"

Shangguan Xiu smiled bitterly and said: "It doesn't help, it only adds to the sadness." ”

Wu Yufei said: "Brother Xiu doesn't have to blame himself, today's ending is all their own choice, and it is their own mistake." ”

"Could it be that I really didn't make any mistakes at all?" If I could have seen Zhu'er's heart knot earlier, if I could have cared more about Dangdang and Ziyin, would they still be able to make today's mistakes and have such an ending today?

Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei glanced at each other and sighed helplessly, both of them understood in their hearts that Brother Xiu had taken all the faults on himself again.

Others don't know Shangguan Xiu's personality, but the two of them know best, they have always pushed their merits to others, and they have always carried them themselves.

The bell of the carriage rang, the bell was crisp, and it gradually moved away, and Shangguan Xiu's gaze into the distance gradually became deeper.

I don't know how long it took, a black mist appeared on the top of the city, and Duan Qiyue appeared behind Shangguan Xiu.

He opened his mouth and was about to speak, when Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei waved their hands at him. Duan Qiyue swallowed back the words that came to his lips, walked to the arrow stack not far away, and sat down on it.

Shangguan Xiu stood on the top of the city for a long time, until the carriage had completely disappeared in the night, and the sky turned white, then he sighed, turned around and said, "Go back!"

"Brother Xiu!" Duan Qiyue jumped down from the arrow stack, stepped forward quickly, and said, "Guan Xi has repeatedly said in prison that he wants to see Brother Xiu!" ql11

Shangguan Xiu frowned and said, "I won't see him." "For Guan Xi's subordinate, Shangguan Xiu has done his best to be benevolent and righteous, and now he doesn't want to see him again.

Duan Qiyue nodded knowingly and said, "My subordinates understand what to do." ”

At dawn, the news came out that Jun Shengtian committed suicide in fear of crime and hanged himself in a cell, while Guan Xi committed suicide by taking poison and died of exhaustion.

As for the other three rebel masterminds, Tang Mingzhu, Gaidang, and Ziyin, all of whom were beheaded at noon, and the charges of beheading were not announced by the imperial court, in short, in the eyes of the people of Tianjing, the two commanders of the Mingzhu County Lord and the gendarmerie were inexplicably killed.

This palace coup d'état born in Tianjing ended in this way. Shangguan Xiu let go of Tang Mingzhu, Dangdang, and Ziyin, and found three substitutes for the dead ghosts, Tang Ling knew, Shangguan Xiu did not hide it from Tang Ling, and told her the truth straightforwardly.

Tang Ling was not surprised by this, in the eyes of many people, Shangguan Xiu was a ruthless person, and as his wife, how could Tang Ling not understand him? Sparing the lives of Tang Mingzhu, Guidang, and Ziyin, and matching the three of them to the distant Western Regions, so that they would not be allowed to step into the Wind Country again in their lifetime, this was already the limit that Shangguan Xiu could do.

To be honest, he was able to match them to such a remote west, which had already surprised Tang Ling.

The matter is over, but the impact is not over.

In the following period, the gendarmerie had a series of major changes, and the officers who had followed the rebellion against him were dismissed one after another, and in two months, about eighty percent of the officers in the gendarmerie were dismissed.

During this period, a war also broke out in the western border of Ningnan. The warning given by the Wind Country to the Western Alliance did not arouse the vigilance of the Western Alliance, and the allies of the Western Alliance have repeatedly tested the bottom line of the Wind Country.

When the Feng army forced the resistance army led by the eldest grandson Huai'an to the west of Ningnan, the Western Alliance not only brazenly sent weapons and ammunition to the resistance, but even had a corps of Western coalition troops cross the border between the two countries and enter the border of Ningnan.

The Zhenjun army stationed on the border did not even hesitate, and was personally commanded by Hu Chong, and directly attacked the country of Quedun in the Western Alliance.

After the Zhenjun army invaded the country of Kuedun, it was really like a plague of locusts entering the country, killing and burning everything in its passing.

Within the territory of the Kingdom of Quidun, there is the strength of one legion of the Western Alliance, and the country of Quedon itself has three legions. The first to attack the Zhenjun army was the Third Army of the Kingdom of Quidun.

The Kuedun Kingdom originally thought that it had the advantages of time, place, and people, and even if one legion was not the opponent of the Wind Army, it would at least be able to delay the Wind Army for ten days and half a month, creating enough time for the remaining three legions to reach the front line.

As a result, the Quidon army of this legion was completely annihilated by the Wind Army in one day.

During the confrontation between the two sides, with more than half of the casualties of the entire army, the 3rd Army of the Quedon Army surrendered to the Wind Army. The Feng army surrendered, but none of the captives who surrendered were left, and all of them were killed. After that, the commander of the Zhenjun army drove straight into the city of Milai in the kingdom of Quiton.

Millai City is an ancient city with a long history and a high level of economy and culture in the country of Kuedun, with more than 20,000 defenders in the city, but under the onslaught of the wind army, it could not be held even for an hour, and the city was breached.

The Zhenjun army of five legions rushed into the city of Milai from all directions.

After entering the city, the Zhenjun army killed people when they saw them, no matter whether they met soldiers or civilians, as long as they could still breathe, they would all be killed.

In the words of the survivors of Milai City, the situation at that time was like hell descending on the world, and the wind army was more terrible than the devil in purgatory, regardless of men, women, children, wounded, sick or disabled, they would not hesitate to wield butcher knives.

The Zhenjun army that invaded Milai City robbed everything and killed everything, and for the buildings that could not be snatched away, they burned them with fire, and the earth and stone buildings that were indispensable with fire were to be blown up with explosives, and in less than a day, Milai City was erased from the territory of the Kingdom of Kuedun by the Zhenjun army.

The red-eyed Zhenjun army continued to advance westward, approaching the capital of the Kingdom of Kuedun, Sha Sidan.

At this time, the royal court of the Quedon Kingdom realized the seriousness of the situation, and one legion of the Western Alliance Army and two legions of the Quedun State all retreated to the capital Shasidan.

Even so, the king of the kingdom of Quidon fled from Shasidan with the queen, prince, and princess, and took refuge in the city of Mandar in the west of the kingdom of Quiton.

The king's actions seemed to be cowardly and greedy for life and death, and his choice proved to be very wise.

The army of three legions held the capital to the death, but it only withstood the Zhenjun army for five days.

On the fifth day of the siege of the city by the Zhenjun army, the artillery of the Wind Country blew up the city defense of Shasidan, and the Zhenjun army entered the city and engaged the defenders in hand-to-hand combat. Compared with the battle-hardened Zhenjun Army, both the Western Coalition Army and the Quedon Army are vulnerable.

The entire three legions, the army of 300,000, were completely defeated by the unevenly organized Zhenjun army, and countless people were killed and wounded in battle, and finally Shasidan's soldiers were not even 100,000.

Shasidan, who was captured by the Wind Army, is almost a copy of Milai City.

The wind army killed all the people who could kill them all, and snatched everything they could, and the huge Shasidan, the capital of the Kuedun Kingdom, turned into a sea of fire, and the flames burned for three days without extinguishing.

The advance of the Zhenjun army did not stop because of the capture of Shasidan, and continued to advance westward, killing the western part of the country of Kuedun, Mandal City.

This time, without waiting for the Wind Army to come, King Quiton had already sent an envoy to deliver the surrender letter to the Wind Army.

Hu Chong didn't even look at the letter of submission sent by the messenger, he tore it up in front of the messenger, and then asked the messenger's head to be returned to Mandal along with the torn letter table.

Hu Chong's intention is obvious, Lao Tzu doesn't matter if you surrender or not, in short, I just want to destroy your country and kill all the people in your Kuedun country.

The whole country of Kuedun has never seen such a barbaric army, and the Ningnan army commanded by Xin Jiyao back then was certainly terrible and powerful, but at least they were reasonable and paid attention to the most basic etiquette.

The Wind Army is different, they give people the feeling that they are like a group of beasts and demons who drink blood, and they can't explain any etiquette or morality in front of them, and in them, the Kingdom of Quidon only sees one thing, that is, destruction, the destruction of all living beings, and the destruction of all civilizations.

When the Zhenjun army was unstoppable and drove straight into the country of Quidun, all the countries were secretly glad that it was not their own country that was attacked by the wind army, but the country of Quidun.

The turning point of events was when the Western Coalition withdrew its coalition forces into the territory of Ningnan.

The news soon reached the Zhenjun army, and Hu Chong simply fell, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and return to the homeland of the Wind Country. But on the way to retreat, the wind army did not forget to loot and kill.

Along the way, all the living people encountered by the wind army were killed, and all the belongings they saw were robbed, and those who could not be taken away were burned and blown up.

This war did not last long, but it left a scar deep into the bone marrow of the Quedon country.

After this war, the Quiton Kingdom became the most opposed to eastward expansion and the most opposed to recovering lost territory in the Western Alliance. The reason is very simple, it was really hurt and scared by the Zhenjun army.

In this war, the Wind Country clearly proved one thing to the Kingdom of Quidun, that is, walking the talk.

I said that if the Western coalition dares to step into our country, I will fight you, and it turns out that I did just that, and either I don't make a move, or if I do, I will destroy your country and destroy your species.

This strategy was decided by Shangguan Xiu, and Hu Chong unswervingly implemented Shangguan Xiu's strategy, almost directly destroying the Quidun Kingdom.

After this battle, the Western Alliance gave up arms assistance to the eldest grandson Huai'an, and even gave up the plan to send troops into Ningnan to fish in troubled waters, and even the request of the eldest grandson Huai'an to withdraw into the Western Alliance was rejected by them.

This is the powerful and incomparably powerful deterrent that the Wind Nation has created for the Western Alliance.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the wind army of General Chi Zhenwei in the future launched a strategic encirclement of the eldest grandson Huai'an. At the end of March, the decisive and final battle between the two sides broke out, the Battle of Anadar.

This war that broke out in the west of Ningnan completely annihilated the resistance army with the eldest grandson Huai'an, and the eldest grandson Huai'an himself also died tragically in the chaos.

The Battle of Anadar also marked the absence of a large-scale resistance army in Ningnan, and the Fengguo finally completed the real and comprehensive unification of Ningnan.

The pattern of the two countries, which had been divided for hundreds of years and fought against each other, was finally broken.

The major events in the world must be divided for a long time, and they must be divided for a long time.

The ten counties of Fengdi and the thirty-six counties of Ningnan have created a huge territory located in the east of the world.

The vast and boundless territory and incomparably powerful military power also make the Wind Empire a huge deterrent and threat to the surrounding countries.

After unifying Ningnan, Shangguan Xiu's ambition was satisfied, and his journey stopped?

Of course not. After Wei Chi Zhenping killed the eldest grandson Huai'an, he sent a letter to the imperial court and asked the imperial court if he could withdraw his troops and return to Beijing. In Shangguan Xiu's reply to him, it was clearly written: "The army is going south, the goal, Shah!"

The sharpened spearhead that Shangguan Xiu held in his hand finally pointed to the Shah region, which had long been subservient to the Wind Country, and the sharp fangs of the Wind Country were finally revealed to Shahe.

(End of book)