In the gorgeous attic, a five-hundred-year-old locust tree by the stream, with dense branches, a middle-aged man stands quietly under the tree.

"Returning to the sanctioned officer, persuading him to surrender to no avail." Tuoba Weiyang said respectfully.

The man's appearance is majestic and cold, with thick eyebrows and a wide forehead, and three locks of long beard hanging down to his chest.

With a radius of 7,000 miles, he has the absolute right to rule between life and death.

Just like the current royal county lord, the so-called Tianhuang nobles, they also have to bow their heads in this field.

"You know I don't like to hear this." Zhe Lansu frowned deeply.

"I almost died in Qiuzi City, this person is shameless, and he is determined to see the king of Hades."

Tuoba Weiyang had a cold face, and his anger was irrepressible.

"A woman's most powerful weapon is between her legs, have you done your best?" Zhe Lansu's face was expressionless, and it was difficult to distinguish between joy and anger.

"Sanction ......" Tuoba Weiyang almost turned his face, forcibly pressed all kinds of humiliation, and said word by word:

"Your Excellency, you refused to marry me, and almost cut me off with a sword!"

Zhe Lansu retracted his gaze, stared quietly into the distance, and muttered:

"Women, wealth and power are not wanted, and it is more determined not to do things for fame and fortune."

He was sorry.

To describe it in the Central Plains dialect, it is difficult to calm down.

What an amazing and brilliant Puyu, if he is loyal to him, then there will be another killer weapon in the future in the central struggle for power.

The empire is favored by heaven, the territory is expanding infinitely, and the sanctioning officials are frantically recruiting talents no matter where they sit, and the stage of troubled times will only be a contest between talents.

The mediocre only deserve to obey!

After being silent for a long time, Zhelan sighed and muttered:

"Since we want to be the last splendor in the remnants of the last days, I will fulfill him."

"Kill, kill, stay in Guizi City, my old face will be completely lost!"

The previous sanction officer blocked the news, and when he took office, he continued the old policy, and to this day, the center of the empire still thinks that the entire territory of the Western Regions is a reckless territory.

If he was known by the crown of the gods, he was afraid that he would not be able to eat and walk around, and he would have no face in the temple.

"How many troops?" Tuoba Weiyang asked.

Zhe Lansu stared at her for a long time, and suddenly smashed his fist on the thick locust tree, and burst into foul language:

"Disgusting, disgusting, fucking disgusting!"

Tuoba Weiyang didn't care, she was used to the style of this sanction officer, and the disgusting part was of course Qiuzi City!

The city of Gain lost its strategic significance to the Empire, and if it could be breached and the Western Regions could be captured, the 500,000 soldiers of the day would not hesitate to do so.

The key Western Regions are all imperial territory, and only a lonely dead city remains.

If there are too many troops, it is a waste, and every soldier needs to consume food and military salaries, and every time he mobilizes, he has to squander his money.

The reward is far more than the pay!

But if you ignore it, one day the center will send someone to inspect, and the consequences of exposure will be punished at least and you will take off your official hat at worst.

Zhi Lansu narrowed her narrow eyes, exuding the majesty of the superior, and said loudly:

"This city has involved dignity, which is not only the dignity of the Chinese nation that Gu Chang'an upholds, but also the dignity of our empire that cannot be disobeyed."

"Three thousand soldiers, set off today!"

"Yes!" The ironclad squire in the distance snorted.

"Absolute superiority......" Tuoba Weiyang raised his snow-white face and said silently.

"Your Excellency, I would like to go with the army." She looked a little impatient.

Zhe Lansu said "um" and did not refute, the county lord is not a princess, and the county lord will die if he encounters an accident.

"I want to see if when Gu Changan dies, whether that arrogant head will be lowered, and whether he will wag his tail and beg for mercy."

Tuoba Weiyang's tone concealed hatred, she definitely wanted to see it with her own eyes.

Zhelan glanced at her, women in the world are like this, the county lord may not be holding a grudge because he almost died, he should have taken the initiative to marry and was rejected by Gu Changan, right?

He waved his hand and said:

"Bring a coffin made of Nanmu in Shuzhong, born in Qiuci and died in Qiuci, he has never set foot in Dongtu in his life, and let him feel the breath of Dongtu after death."

"What?" Tuoba Weiyang screamed, unable to accept such a lofty courtesy to the enemy.

"What kind of person do you think Gu Changan is?" Zhi Lansu asked rhetorically.

"Pretentious, superficial and ignorant!" Tuoba Weiyang said decisively.

Zhe Lansu sneered and said in a deep voice:

"He is elegant and noble, and he is independent, and belittling the character of the enemy does not make us greater."

"Gu Changan is destined to be unknown, but he deserves the highest respect, the eldest husband died defending the territory, and he can walk sideways in the Hades Palace!"

"Yes......" Tuoba Weiyang hung his head, unwilling.

"Along with him and the coffin, he was buried under the city of Qiuzi." Zhelan Su admonished, and left with his hands.

In addition, he also had to increase the intensity of blocking the news, the story of the Anxi Army must not be transmitted to the Eastern Central Plains, and Gu Changan's lonely deeds must not be exposed.

Once Shenzhou knew that an army had been holding out in the Western Regions for sixty years, and a twenty-year-old man was alone in guarding the city, what a monstrous wave it would cause.

At that time, the decadent and collapsed Central Plains Festival is afraid that it will usher in a wave of awakening and explosion because of this.

……

At the head of the lonely city, there is always a figure, occasionally in the watchtower, occasionally in the tower by the railing, and the sunset has been seen thousands of times.

But today the city wall is nowhere to be seen.

Most of the houses in the city, women and children, sick and disabled, stood in front of the door one after another, all looking sad and crying intermittently.

Mrs. Guo can't do it.

Perhaps it was because after seeing the map, the collapsed status quo of the Tang Dynasty completely disintegrated her will and destroyed her mental state, and the eighty-year-old man was coming to the end of his life.

"At the end of my life, I am also the only one in the Anxi Army."

There was a brisk voice in the room, and the old woman's voice was no longer hoarse.

Sixty years ago, she came to garrison the Western Regions with her husband, bid farewell to the soft and delicate Jiangnan, and came to the lonely and twilight Qiuci City.

These sixty years have been really bitter.

But when she was dying, she didn't feel even the slightest regret.

"Chang'an, I'm sorry for you." The wrinkled woman clutched the young man's arm tightly and muttered repeatedly, "You are the most bitter in Qiuzi City. ”

"It's not bitter." Gu Changan took his other hand and gently patted her arm.

"If you were born in the Central Plains, you should have been a long-sleeved and fluttering son, and a good couple who was admired by a boudoir girl......"

"Grandma, don't talk about that." Gu Changan squeezed out a smile and interrupted her chatter.

"Let's go, even if you leave and come back, otherwise you won't be blind." The old woman stared into his eyes and was kidnapped with her last wish.

Gu Changan was silent, still as firm as usual in the face of this topic, but this time his tone was very soft.

"Unless I die, even if I lose this city for a moment, I will be ashamed of the more than 20,000 Anxi Heroic Souls, and I will be ashamed of my own conscience and faith."

"What's more, I've lived here since I was a child, and I don't want to adapt to the outside world."

The old woman's vision gradually dimmed, she smiled relievedly, squirmed her pale lips with difficulty, and said softly:

"Grandma will bless you in heaven, you will always be the pride of Anxi Army, you ...... You...... You hold up the backbone of the nation. ”

Suddenly, she looked directly at the faces outside, and shouted with the last of her strength:

"The sun, moon, mountains and rivers are still there, the lonely city is still there, don't cry, you guys go slowly."

The arm hung down quietly, and the breath gradually disappeared.

Gu Changan's body stiffened, helped her close her eyes gently, and then walked out of the room silently.

There was a cry outside the door, and women, children and children poured in, lying in front of the bed crying and wailing, tears rolling down uncontrollably.

For 60 years, Mrs. Guo has been a monument to Anxi, and her death seems to have cut off the spirit of the Anxi army.

Gu Changan stopped abruptly, turned to look at his relatives, and swore loudly as if talking to himself:

"The lonely city is still there, I'm still there, and I can't go."

After speaking, he took the same steady pace as usual and walked towards the direction of the city.

The most rapid attack of the enemy may not be far away, and he will not have time to grieve, or grief will only be left in a no-man's corner.

He had witnessed too many deaths, he was still a baby at the age of one, and because he could easily understand the meaning of death through him, countless acquaintances left him with smiling faces for twenty years.

A heart is numb and firm.

This is also the reason why he swore to defend this lonely city, and never retreat until the last drop of blood was shed.