Chapter 253: An Unjust Fate (Part II)
On the day of the expedition, in time for the autumn harvest season, the autumn breeze blowing on people's cheeks should be refreshing, but Qiao Geng did not feel like this, under the heavy armor, he felt that fate had arranged for him again.
Even the general on the side could see that the emperor had a sad face, and he sneered at the moment, but he was afraid of going to the front line and dying.
Most of the people in the military like to be arrogant, not to mention how many big cases Qiao Geng has handled in Beijing over the years, just this helpless face makes people not like it.
So for people like Qiao Geng, they don't want to be comforted.
Only a few brave soldiers joked with Qiao Geng, the vanguard general.
A total of 400,000 troops marched to the frontier, and with the change of the road scene, the scene in front of them gradually changed from the bustling capital to the uninhabited wilderness, and then to the snow-capped frontier.
Before they could take a break, the army of the enemy country rushed over in a rage, and after months of running and tiring, everyone was taken by surprise by the enemy, and the army of 400,000 was scattered by 70,000 or 80,000.
After resisting the past wave, the generals and soldiers rested for a while, and immediately began to make a battle plan.
Within three days, a group of generals worked out a battle plan, intending to make a move.
It is to use the commander and 5,000 heavy armor soldiers as bait, and then set up an ambush on the periphery to lure the enemy in......
It's just that at this time, there are doubts again, and there is only one, everyone is looking for prestige, but it is the vanguard general personally appointed by His Majesty the Emperor this time - Qiao Geng.
To tell the truth, all the generals agreed with this plan, and when they heard Qiao Geng's denial, they all showed displeasure.
"The vanguard general has a different plan for the commander?" The previous Du Hu opened his mouth and asked Qiao Geng.
He admitted that Qiao Geng was very good at patrolling and handling cases in the capital, but this was not the same thing as marching and fighting, and he felt that Qiao Geng was used to living a comfortable life in the capital, so what everyone mentioned was actually an evasion, but he was afraid that he would be higher than himself in terms of official position and military position, so he didn't fully explain his words thoroughly.
"I don't think it's possible for the enemy's army to come in just as we set a trap, and besides, they now have 500,000 people, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for us to eat them in one bite......!
In the past few years when he went to the capital to catch fast, he didn't leave the books behind, but he read less about some of the articles in them, and read more about military books.
Of course, what he said was not just on paper, but actually investigated.
For three days, these generals didn't want to see him anyway, and he walked around the enemy's military camp a few times with his superb martial arts, and found that the enemy's grain and grass were relatively weak, so it was better to start from this aspect.
But in the military tent, most of the people have the same idea as Du Hu, so few people listen to him.
After that day, when the army was fighting the enemy, it deliberately revealed a flaw, exposing 5,000 men and the commander in front of them.
When the enemy saw this, they immediately swarmed and rushed to this side......
But the idea is good, but the reality is very cruel, because the terrain is open, so even in the wind and snow, after some of the enemy soldiers enter the encirclement, some people will immediately be alert to see it.
Moreover, the enemy army has a total of 500,000 people, and the encirclement of only more than 300,000 people cannot be eaten at all!
So the plan fell through, and the siege became a one-on-one battle, so this battle was fought, and the commander and the five thousand heavy cavalry were all killed by the enemy!
When the soldiers saw this posture, they immediately panicked, and the troops were a little scattered......
But with a burst of sword light in the snow, several blood-red lines sprinkled on the snow, a figure stood out from the crowd, his sword moves opened and closed, and everywhere he went, a large piece of people fell, it was a Qiao Geng.
The general of the enemy army noticed Qiao Geng's strength, and immediately mobilized most of the soldiers to converge over there, but unfortunately he was really tough and brave, and after a few swings of an iron sword, more than a dozen heads were immediately thrown into the air.
"Who dares to stop me?" He roared, his voice was deafening, and more than a dozen swords were swung out, and after the corpse was ambushed, he stood on his toes and flew directly towards the enemy general.
Frightened, the enemy generals set up their chariots and ran, and the enemy army was also in chaos, the battle situation turned slightly around, and the morale of Qiao Geng's side also returned!
However, after this battle, Qiao Geng's army on this side has also lost as much as half, and although the enemy army has also suffered losses, in terms of numbers, it is still more than 100,000 people here!
The situation is not optimistic at all. After reporting the battle situation to the imperial court, Qiao Geng was ordered to take over the handsome seal!
According to what he observed before, Qiao Geng reformulated the battle plan, and after the redeployment, he selected three thousand elites from the army, went around to the enemy's rear and burned their grain and grass, taking advantage of the enemy's chaos, Qiao Geng led the remaining 100,000 people to cut in from the middle of the enemy army, and divided their army into two parts!
The enemy was taken by surprise, part of them were busy putting out the fire, and some of them were caught in the melee, after this battle, Qiao Geng only lost 30,000 men, and the enemy army was beaten to only 70,000 or 80,000.
Subsequently, under Qiao Geng's strict battle plan, his seventy or eighty thousand people were finally consumed by him.
In this way, Qiao Geng became famous in one stop, and after returning to the capital, his official position was promoted to a first-class position, and he became a second-class official in the court.
In the next few decades, there will always be wars that cannot be quelled, as long as Qiao Geng comes out, he will be invincible, and the corpses will be ambushed! Until now, he has been named the king of the opposite sex, guarding the northwest frontier for the current Shengshang, and this barren land in the northwest has gradually become rich under Qiao Geng's care, and everything is in order.
It's just that in the past ten years, Qiao Geng has always been single, even if the saint chose several county lords with both ability and integrity to marry him as emperors, he rejected them one by one, and he himself did not marry a wife and take a concubine......
When asked by outsiders about the reason, he also answered vaguely.
But he himself knew that all this was a certain degree of restraint for him, and he felt that once he married a wife and had children, his nature as a king of the opposite sex would change, and he would become the hereditary "Emperor of the Soil" in the northwest, and he would definitely be involved in the conspiracy and struggle of the court in the future!
Now that the emperor can crown him as a king of the opposite sex, it is also because he has not married a wife and has children, and can obediently guard the northwest for him, and as for the so-called marriage of the emperor, it is all a temptation for him again and again! If he really wants to marry a wife one day, I am afraid that the emperor will immediately send troops to the northwest!
Even, even if he felt that he was a member of the opposite sex, he didn't want to be a ......
But the world is impermanent, just when he was comfortable and comfortable in the northwest, the capital immediately underwent a great change, and the emperor died! And several princes under his knees also began to fight for the succession, and as a result, the government and government also became chaotic!
After a seven-day curfew in the capital, in the end, it was the three princes who played chess, and after killing several other princes, they finally forced the prince of the palace with absolute force and won the throne and became the honor of the Ninety-Five!
And the first thing he did when he became the emperor was naturally to make a big move against Qiao Geng, the king of the northwest, but after all, he was a new emperor, much more immature than his father, so after being beaten back and forth by Qiao Geng for a few Tai Chi, he could only give up and let Qiao Geng develop in the northwest.
Another five years later, due to the inaction of the new emperor, he was expropriating everywhere, causing complaints and mourning in various places, so there were crusades in various places.
The country began to enter a brief period of chaos...... After a long period of chaos and chaos, the original dynasty existed in name only!
All of a sudden, the building will fall ......
Several neighboring countries are eyeing each other again!
In this case, even if Qiao Geng was tired of the government and horses, but for the sake of peace in the world, he still put on the battlefield again, and took his 300,000 iron cavalry in the northwest to quell the wars in various places.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that because he had pacified the people everywhere when he was fighting all the way to the ground, now that the world is peaceful, the people everywhere actually want him to be the emperor! Even some princes who bowed down to him thought so.
Even in order to force him to ascend the throne, some strategists even ordered someone to deliberately put a dragon-shaped strange stone on a mountain outside the capital, and then pretended not to know everything afterwards, and ordered people to "accidentally discover" this stone!
And what does the Northwest mean? Naturally, it is the world-famous King of the Northwest today! This is better, the world is in the heart, and the voices of all places are even higher, even if Qiao Geng doesn't want to be this emperor, he has to be it!
So in a daze, he became the emperor...... This is a position that anyone in the world desires, but Qiao Geng can't be happy!
The more he sat in a high position, the more frightened he became, the less free he became, he knew very well what the emperor meant, but it was just another beginning of a conspiracy and calculation, and he was really tired of these things......
Interestingly, the previous dynasty collapsed, but the former dynasty's concubine Miao Hai was living a prosperous life, because of the dirty industries in his hands, he is still thriving, and even envied others, but after all, it was because of his previous dynasty that the identity of the concubine was pulled out, and finally he was tied up in front of Qiao Geng, until he saw that the ninety-five supreme in front of him was a person from a mountain village he once had, he was a little surprised.
Miao Hai's thoughts also drifted back to the day when he returned to Wugu Village decades ago, he didn't laugh at Qiao Geng on that day, but in his heart, he looked down on Qiao Geng, and now he knelt in front of the most despised people, and his heart was mixed.
"Let him go......" But for Qiao Geng, he didn't have much desire to kill this person, just waved his hand, and wanted to let this person go when he was talking and laughing.
The ministers did not understand what the new emperor was thinking, so they had to do so.
The most unexpected thing is Miao Hai, he was quite magnificent in the first half of his life, but the second half of his life was dirty, he wanted to say something grateful to Qiao Geng, but in the end he just said to him politely with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister: "Thank you, Lord Longen!"
After getting up, he walked out of the Taihe Hall in despair, and as for Wugu Village, he never went back later, and settled in the capital all his life.
Another five years later, Qiao Geng gave up the throne to a first minister, and he himself changed into a light arrow suit, and quietly left the capital with an iron sword.
And what the court declared to the world was that His Majesty the Emperor overworked and eventually exhausted himself to death......
It wasn't until he left the outside of the capital, breathing through the refreshing air outside, that Qiao Geng had a sense of lightness again, and he planned to travel back to Wugu Village with his own feet.
This time, since he was already a martial arts practitioner, his leg strength was much faster, and he was about to return to Wugu Village in just three months. It's just that he stopped again in a ruined temple more than ten miles away from Wugu Village, and twenty-five years have passed, and this ruined temple has become even more broken, and he looked at the broken temple, and his thoughts went back to twenty-five years ago.
"Let's go see her. He thought he had let it go, but when he came over twenty-five years in the spring and autumn, he was actually still obsessed with her.
When he arrived at the county where Li Wanwan was located, he still found her after inquiring from all sides.
Although she is rich and noble now, she died a few years ago, and she lives a lonely life, although she has a daughter and a son under her knees, but whoever looks at her says that she has never been happy when she looks at her sad face, as if she has not been happy since twenty-five years ago.
On this day, she was arranging for the servants in the palace to give porridge and rice to a group of homeless people according to the custom, when she saw a middle-aged man with dark skin walking towards him.
She was stunned for a moment, and then burst into tears! Although twenty-five years had passed, the eyebrows and corners of the eyes of the person in front of her were full of wrinkles, but she still recognized him, this was still Qiao Geng, who was as dark as he was twenty-five years ago!
After crying, she became resentful again, and scolded her angrily: "My youth has been ruined by you!"
On that day, she waited for her for a full day in the windward attic, and finally under the urging of her father, she had to throw the hydrangea casually to a person, but the person who didn't want to receive the hydrangea was a lazy second ancestor......
So in the years since she married this twenty ancestor, she has not been happy at all, and even after he died ten years ago, she did not feel a little relieved, but in the past ten years, he has missed Qiao Geng more, and the memory of that year has become more and more profound, and he will dream of it every time he dreams.
So much so that she can't remember how many times she cried!
From Qiao Geng's point of view, he clearly felt that Li Wanwan was old, and most of her beauty had faded, leaving only some traces of the past.
Whether it was a frontier battle, or later as a northwest Wanping world, no matter how cruel the battle, he was never afraid...... But at this moment, he was afraid of her complaints.
He felt that he felt more guilty about her, more uncomfortable......
The subordinates who followed Li Wanwan all saw it with their eyes, and saw that their master might have some special feelings for this strange man, so they didn't talk nonsense, and quietly faded down very tacitly.
He looked her in the eye and eventually just sighed and came out.
But that's all, he didn't say anything, he pressed his toes, quickly turned away from her side, although he felt guilty about her, but his thoughts were the same as twenty-five years ago, he knew very well what it meant for him to stay......
That inexplicable restraint that bothered him would rise again, and he was even more afraid of it.
Back to Wugu Village, it was another good season for a bumper harvest of grains, but in the past twenty-five years, a lot of things have changed, just like he can't find anyone he is familiar with, and he can't find the royal family who often comes to bother him.
After a few walks around the village, he also found his home...... It's just that it's in disrepair, the house is leaking rain everywhere, and there are many birds and finches to make nests.
However, there are also some old people in the village who recognize him, and seeing that he is still alone, mentioning the "selling his sister for money" back then, which made people ridicule him again. ridiculed him for going outside and eating a nose of ash, achieving nothing, and now he is coming back to eat and wait for death, and some people even compare Miao Hai with him.
But Wu Mu and the others, who were hidden in the void, knew all the life trajectories of Qiao Geng over the years.
By now, they could basically determine that Qiao Geng was Mo Wunian's reincarnation.
As for some people comparing Miao Hai with Qiao Geng, this is really a joke......
After coming back this time, Qiao Geng did not choose to farm like most people in the village, but practiced swords every morning, and meditated at other times.
For these, everyone in the village regarded him as not doing his job.
Until one day, after Qiao Geng hadn't eaten for twenty days in a row, after sitting in the back mountain of the village for a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes and waved a sword at the dense woods!
This sword is agile and elegant, but it is also very powerful, and it directly swept a tree into ashes.
It's an ordinary sword, but it's only for monks......
Because just now, Wu Mu and the others felt the fluctuation of spiritual power from Qiao Geng's body, which made Murong Xiu's expression change slightly.
In a sense, the current Qiao Geng and Mo Wunian are actually two people, he is just an ordinary person, but he has cultivated the most ordinary mortal sword without any cultivation method, but he has cultivated the feeling of a monk......!
This is enough to make anyone who sees Qiao Geng's current state shocked!
Xiao Sanzhu said with an incredulous face: "Good girl! This Mo brother ...... It's really a bit powerful! It's just that some of the great powers of the other side realm don't have the ability to pass on the cultivation method, right?"
But Murong Xiu knew very well that it was impossible for Mo Wunian to create a cultivation method, so there was only one possibility left, he was creating a very powerful technique!