It turned out that the two countries of Qi and Liang met each other in that year, and the Great Qi army led by Qin Hu, the general of Pingxi Zhuguo, and Zhu Yunque, the general of Zhennan Zhuguo, divided into three routes, surrounded the 50,000 main army of Xiliang on a beachhead called Ranshi Beach in the northwest, and defeated them in one fell swoop. After this battle, the two countries stopped fighting and made peace, and since then, except for occasional friction on the border, there has been no more fighting, and it has been 20 years.

Behind this one-sided victory, there is a little-known secret.

At that time, the right army led by Zhu Yunque was divided into a force of 3,000 men and horses before the war, stationed fifty miles away from the right flank of the army, responsible for vigilance, and had the intention of blocking the Xiliang reinforcements. Unexpectedly, until the end of the Battle of Rocky Beach, this army did not see the shadow of Xiliang reinforcements, and then received the order of the general to return to the army after a great victory in the battle.

At this moment, a group of Xiliang troops fell from the sky, killed out, formed a formation in all directions, surrounded the three thousand men and horses of Daqi, and after a fight, all the three thousand men and horses were killed except for a few captured. It turned out that this 20,000 Xiliang reinforcements, on the order of the Xiliang Emperor, went to the rescue, and in the middle of the army, the commander got the information of the defeat of his own side in front of the rocky beach, and was startled, and hurriedly retreated, just happened to meet the 3,000 men and horses of Daqi who were in charge of vigilance. The commander of Xiliang saw that the Daqi army was outnumbered, and immediately ordered to surround and annihilate it.

Because of his strong martial arts and agility, Anping was in the guard camp at the time, responsible for the general's guard. In this battle, he was finally outnumbered, exhausted, captured, and taken prisoner. Later, he was tied hand and foot, and together with the remaining two or three hundred Daqi soldiers, he was escorted to Liangzhou by the Xiliang people.

After entering the city, Anping and other Daqi captives were divided into several large houses, with chains on their hands and feet, as if they were regarded as animals, and specialized in doing some heavy and lowly work for the Xiliang people, such as digging dung pits, picking up sheep dung, moving bricks and soil, digging ditches and carrying water, and so on. Most of these people were scarred, lacked food and medicine, had no food and clothing, and many died in the torture.

When Jing Si heard this, his heart was like a knife, and he said angrily: "As the saying goes, a soldier can be killed, but not humiliated. The people of Xiliang are really the heart of jackals, the nature of owls, and they actually practice my Daqi soldiers like this. ”

calmly smiled bitterly and said: "Dad was young and vigorous at the time, and he couldn't bear the humiliation, so he wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself, and he died." But when I thought of you and your mother, my father dispelled the idea of self-determination, and thought that as long as he still had a breath, he would also flee back to Daqi and reunite with your mother. ”

Jing Si choked up: "But my mother is ...... When the news of my father's death came, my mother washed her face with tears all day long, and it didn't take long for her to go away depressed. ”

Calmly sighed and said, "But it's hard for her, and I don't know I'm still alive until I die." But why is she like this, hey, Dad can't stand your mother's affection - Dad only learned the news of her death later. In the words, he was full of guilt and longing for this former wife, and the feelings of the past did not seem to have diminished at all.

Long Shaoyang hid in the grass, and couldn't help but sigh when he heard it. Suddenly, I felt a tingling pain in the back of my hand, and when I looked at it, it was Zhu Xibing beside me who twisted a few times with his hand, and his eyes were looking at him angrily, so he immediately held back and almost didn't scream.

Jing Si said again: "Dad, what about later, how did you use King Qin and become a general?"

Calm raised his head and looked up, but saw a waning moon, which haunted the clouds from time to time, and under the sky, it was hazy.

After looking at it for a long time, he calmly turned around and said, "This is also a coincidence, my father is destined to die." Child, you just said that Liang people have no virtue, and you actually acted like this against my captured soldiers, you really underestimate them!"

Quietly thought for a moment, and asked, "Dad, what do you mean by that—"

Calm showed a painful look on his face, and said slowly: "Dad hasn't talked about even more terrible things." The wild nature of the Liang people was not extinguished, and the captured soldiers were forced to disguise themselves as gladiators for the pleasure of the princes and nobles, in addition to doing heavy physical work. ”

Jing Si wondered, "Gladiator?"

Calmly said, "Hmm." Most of them were prisoners of war, in addition to our Qi people and Northern Wei people, there were also soldiers from the Western Regions. During the celebration of festivals and victories in war, these prisoners of war would be dragged to the arena, where they would be stripped of their chains, and weapons such as swords would be distributed, and only one of the two sides of the gladiatorial battle would be able to get out of the arena alive - these people were called gladiators by the Ryoto. When the gladiators were fighting in the arena, the Liangren went up to the princes and nobles, down to the soldiers and the common people, betting on the wins and losses on the sidelines, laughing and having fun. ”

Jing Si had already clenched his fists when he heard this, gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't expect to be so cruel! I went back and asked my father-in-law for troops and exterminated these bastard things!"

nodded calmly and said with a wry smile: "Since ancient times, it has been impossible to become a king and defeat a king." Dad used to be a gladiator, fortunately, Dad loved martial arts since he was a child, his physical strength was strong, and he still survived after many battles. It's okay to fight with the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Regions, the most helpless thing is to meet your own people, who are also Qi people, and the love of the robe is like siblings, but you have to kill each other, fight to the death......"

Speaking of this, his voice became choked: "If it weren't for Dad wanting to see you two mothers, Dad would be willing to die, and he would never hurt his brother with a knife inward...... My hands are stained with their blood, woo, I'm the one who should have died a long time ago......" he said with a loud cry of sorrow, obviously remorseful for this past, and it was difficult to let go.

Jing Si hurriedly relieved: "Dad, this is all the evil done by Liang Ren, I can't blame you, I can't blame you." ”

calmly collected his tears and continued: "Dad survived by luck with his good martial arts. On this day, my father defeated a soldier of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and just walked out of the arena, Liangren was about to put an iron chain on me, when I suddenly heard someone shouting, "Wait!", I followed the sound and looked, and saw a young man walking in the distance, dressed in brocade clothes, and at a glance, I knew that it was a prince and nobleman of Xiliang. The man looked me up and down and said with a smile, "This strong man is an extraordinary martial artist, would you be interested in coming to my mansion to talk about it?"

"I was surprised and surprised to hear him call me 'strong man' and speak fluent Chinese. At the moment, I had no choice, so I pulled my feet and followed behind the young man, and the Xiliang soldiers on the side were unhindered, so I let them follow. ”

When Long Shaoyang and the others heard this, they were all secretly thinking: Who is this young man, and what is the purpose of taking peace away?

I only listened calmly and said: "After Dad followed the young man to his house, he was placed alone in a courtyard, with his hands and feet not chained, nor guarded and monitored. After a short time, another servant bathed and changed my clothes, and brought me good wine and food. When asked who the master was, the slave shook his head repeatedly. Dad became more and more curious, and couldn't guess what kind of medicine this person was selling in the gourd. After some thought, he simply accepted all the clothes, feasted on wine and food, and thought that even if he died, he would be a starving ghost. ”

For more than a month, there was no shadow of the young man. One day, the young man suddenly appeared and told the reason why he had gone to great lengths to treat me so much because he wanted me to be of his own use. At that time, my father hated the cool man in his heart, but thinking that this person had treated me well since January, and he was unwilling to refuse directly, so he joked that as long as he could abolish the gladiator system, I would promise him. ”

Calm breathed a long sigh of relief, and continued: "The man was stunned for a moment, said 'a word is a certainty', and turned away. Who knew that three days later, Li Xun, the last emperor of Xiliang, issued a holy edict to abolish the gladiator system. Dad was shocked, and later heard that it was that person who gave Emperor Xiliang a lesson, saying that 'the gladiator system violates the harmony of heaven, damages the yin, and weathers the etiquette of Daliang' Yunyun, Dad didn't know the true identity of that person until this time——"

When Jing Si heard this, he had vaguely guessed eight or nine points, and asked, "Dad, is this person the one who will be the owner of the banquet tonight?"

Said calmly: "Yes, it's him." Today's King of Xiliang Qin, surnamed Li, named Qi. ”