"Your Majesty...... Sirius King City, broken. ”

"The southern front has been opened, and the 100,000 troops of Nanguan can't resist, and Qi Liang's advance speed is too fast...... It will take five days for Beiguan's support, and three more days for Dongguan, at this rate, Qi Liang will be able to hit Fengting City within three days, and Jiang Qingyi will start attacking again on the other side of the western defense line, what should we do?"

"Your Majesty...... The urgent advice of the Senluo Dao Temple...... This is the seventeenth letter of the day!"

"Your Majesty—"

"Your Majesty!!"

......

......

There seemed to be countless voices in my ears, lingering and circling, and my mind was a mess, and finally there was a rapid announcement, and all the other noisy voices stopped abruptly—

A bloodied Senluo Dao scout rushed up to the main hall, and finally threw himself in front of the hall, riding his horse on the road without stopping for the slightest...... He participated in the war on the southern front, starting from the landing of the Qiliang big ship, and then breaking through the Heavenly Wolf City, and now, exhausted, rushed to the main hall, but the string that was tight in his mind could not be loosened.

The scout's whole body was trembling, and he looked up, his red eyes bloodshot and full of despair, and he gritted his teeth word by word.

"Sky Wolf King, Ning Feng Sleeve...... Die. ”

"Meng Qi, Zhang Wenyuan, and the wolves under the command of Sky Wolf City rode a total of three thousand, and none of them survived. ”

"The palace was destroyed, the Heavenly Wolf King City refused to die, and the city was slaughtered...... Qiliangkeng killed 200,000 people. ”

The scout, who was already close to forty years old, had a tearing pain in his throat, and said weakly: "People over there, say ...... If you defend it, you will slaughter the city, one by one, until Luoyang. ”

Dead.

The dead silence of the hall.

The blood-stained scout was carried down.

Cao Zhixuan sat quietly on the throne, his hands were empty next to the armrests, once upon a time, on the left was Li Qing, the king of the Great Domain of Xiguan, and on the right was the young Heavenly Wolf Ning Fengsleeve, the two great generals of the North Pass and Dongguan were guarding the defense line, the purple robe planned to destroy the Three Kingdoms in Jiangbei, and Zong Heng held Xuanhuang in his arms to guard the Great Wei Sword Dao......

But now?

I turned out to be a, a loner.

His face was neither sad nor joyful, he gently recited the retreat, left the main hall, and his thoughts wandered along the way, passing through the Fengxian Palace, and saw the woman in purple sitting in the peony pavilion in a daze, he stood where she couldn't see, and watched quietly for a long time.

Li Yu watched the peony flowers bloom and accompanied him for so many years.

Cao Zhixuan knew what the extent of his Great Wei had come.

Along the way, every step has been too difficult, one wrong step, one wrong step.

He closed his eyes and thought of the sky and the heavy rain at the head of Fengting City, the picture of this woman crying hoarsely to himself, the white-robed man whose chest was pierced and empty, and the big red moon in Luoyang City......

Which step was taken wrong?

Until this moment, I suddenly looked back.

A man who cherishes feathers so much that he finally hollows out his wings.

Li Qing, dead.

Zong Heng, dead.

Ning Fengsleeve, dead.

Who's next?

Who else could there be?

Qi Liang's Yi Xiao has already released his words, and the slaughter of one city after another will not stop until Luoyang.

Who else could there be!

Cao Zhixuan clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves, no longer looked at the purple-clothed woman in the Fengxian Palace, turned to leave, and everyone he met on the way, the palace maids, the servants, and the entourage, all lowered their heads, and their pupils were hollow and lifeless...... These people have already given up?

They think that Great Wei is dead?

What do these people know...... With a territory of 40,000 miles, millions of good generals and elite soldiers, and countless horses, how could they not withstand those weak southerners?

Suddenly stood still.

Cao Zhixuan took a deep breath and pushed the door in.

......

......

The lights of the Senluo Dao Hall are dim and uncertain.

"Let the Zhong family withdraw from the western defense line, Luoyang, Zhongjia, Beiguan, Dongguan, and the four roads go south, and put the southern line outside Fengting City. ”

"What about the Western Front?"

"Let go of the North Pass and let the barbarians sweep south. ”

"Your Majesty, this is luring the wolf into the house. ”

"I had no choice. Cao Zhixuan looked directly into the eyes of the purple-robed national teacher, and said word by word: "The one surnamed Duan, Sen Luodao has been cultivated for four years, and he has been put on the Western Defense Line for a year, and until now, he still can't kill Jiang Qingyi...... What's the point of staying there?"

Xuan Shangyu looked at his nose and nose, looked at the scroll, and said softly: "It's not that he can't be killed, but he can't find a chance, that ambush in the Daji Mountain Range, Duan Wuyin didn't participate for some reason, and he fought for a year against the Western Defense Line, the more people died, the stronger his cultivation became, if we can resist, he may not be able to become a killer against Yi Xiao in the future." ”

"Your Majesty...... Yan Xiaoqi has lived in the Mobei Royal Court for four years, and if this royal court iron horse with amazing combat power easily swept into the territory of Beiguan, even if it can temporarily fight against Xiguan, it will become the third wolf to bite the Northern Wei Dynasty in the future. Xuan Shangyu raised his head and said seriously: "The king of Mobei is old, but the next enthroner is ambitious, the barbarians on the grassland are only temporary, it is not easy to live on the frozen soil that day, they are eager for rich land and wealth, if they are determined to get a piece of the pie, the Northern Wei Dynasty will no longer have a way to check and balance." ”

There was a long silence.

Cao Zhixuan's voice was calm: "I have made up my mind." ”

"Good. Xuan Shangyu smiled, lowered his head, looked at the long scroll on the case again, and did not speak.

There was a long silence between the two.

"Hyun Shang-woo. Cao Zhixuan said softly: "After you came out of the Buddha's remains, you have changed. ”

The purple-robed Great Master hummed lightly and said, "Your Majesty feels that I have made a lot of mistakes, and these mistakes should not be made, step by step to the current situation, Your Majesty is beginning to regret giving me this power." ”

Cao Zhixuan took a deep breath and didn't answer, just looked deeply into the eyes of the purple-robed national teacher.

Xuan Shangyu said: "Your Majesty, have you ever thought about a question. ”

There was a slight pause.

“...... What kind of country can become a nation that rules the whole world?"

Cao Zhixuan's eyes narrowed.

"Of course it's not the strongest iron cavalry charging formation, Great Qin's iron cavalry charging formation is rare for a thousand years, and the empire under the iron hoof is established very quickly, and it collapses very quickly. ”

"Of course, it's not the one with the best luck, Xi Chu's luck draws on the spirit of heaven and earth, stepping on the corpse of Daqin, sword after sword and sword are hard to get the good luck from the sky...... In the end, it was cheaper for the world, and the dragon king of Qijiang. ”

"So, what's the answer?"

"I really want to say that such a country should be a tolerant country, able to tolerate mistakes, can tolerate mistakes, if Your Majesty can stop when Fengting City, then Li Qing will not die, and the Northern Wei Dynasty does not need to go through a painful exchange of blood......"

"If Your Majesty treats Jiang Qingyi sincerely, then Xiguan will now become a huge killer against the southerners......."

"If Your Majesty can tolerate other opinions, then the people of the palace will be able to do more things, and maybe the sword that is now at the throat of the Northern Wei Dynasty will be broken when it goes north. ”

“...... Even, Your Majesty, if you can't do the previous ones, when Yi Xiao came to Qi Liang, you killed them directly, then the current situation would not be so bad. ”

When he said these words, in Xuan Shangyu's mind, there was a butterfly with fluttering wings.

He thought of the conversation with Yi Xiao in the Buddha's remains.

The two talked a lot.

It was a conversation that changed the world.

When a butterfly flashes its wings in Jiangnan Province, Luoyang City may rain heavily because of it.

If this butterfly had seen the heavy rain in Luoyang City in advance, what would have happened if it stopped flashing its wings on that day?

In the end, the West Pass is reversed, the South City is collapsed, and the North Pass is about to be empty...... All the stories are guiding the final ending.

Hyun Sang-woo has seen this ending.

No matter what he does, he can't change it.

So he was thinking about this answer, and finally looked at Cao Zhixuan and said, "Your Majesty, I really want to find out the answer to why the Northern Wei Dynasty has come to this point." ”

"But...... There is no answer. ”

There was another long silence.

"The defense line against the west can be emptied, but the Mobei Royal Court cannot be put in. ”

"The Divine Son of the Northern Plains has not made a move for a long time, and some people speculate that he is not far from the demon, and the twin stars in the royal court are comparable to the Divine Son of Mobei, and there is a young man named 'Nalan'...... This royal court is a hungry wolf division that is not inferior to the Xiguan Sixteen Character Battalion on the same scale, and once they sweep south, the final outcome will not end. ”

Cao Zhixuan calmed down a little at this time.

He sat back in his chair.

"Reject the western defense line, after emptying...... What to do?"

Hearing this question, Zi Pao stared at the eyes of the Cao family man seriously, and said word by word: "Your Majesty, since the Northern Wei Dynasty needs Xiguan...... Then Your Majesty, why don't you admit your mistake to Jiang Qingyi?"

"I ...... Admit your mistake?"

Cao Zhixuan, who was sitting on the chair, heard this, his mind was still a mess, and he looked at the purple-robed great master with some confusion.

Stand corrected...... What do you think is wrong......

"I did it wrong, and so did you...... is not only Li Qing's death, but also Xu Zhirou, Ren Pingsheng, Wei Lingshan, Jiang Qingyi...... The Peony Pavilion in Luoyang City was gone, and the big thunder drum on the west barrier was broken, and the Northern Wei Dynasty reached its current point because of ......"

Xuan Shangyu said softly: "Many things, we have done wrong. ”