Wedge two: Liu Baichuan
Wei Guogong did not wait for reinforcements from the imperial capital or other princes until he died, and the arrows that shot from a distance pierced his chest, arrow after arrow. He held the royal flag and tried to stand hard, but the corpses strewn all over the ground under his feet made him really unable to find a place to stand firmly.
With the collapse of the city gate, Wei Guogong suddenly smiled, and then slowly turned around, staring at the direction of Chang'an with the last remaining eye, more than three months before this, every such morning, when he watched the sun rise, he would always fantasize, fantasize that the dream appeared countless times in the red, overwhelming red, in the dream, that touch of red roared the last elegy of the Xia people, the sons waved the sword and halberd of their father and brother, and the horse's hooves rolled up the wind and sand.
But those, after all, were dreams, and when his vision was completely blurred, when he finally lowered his proud head, the thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, the last thought left in the world was the order in which he died in battle, he and his Xuanjia army, at this moment, were all martyred.
In the winter of the sixteenth year of Great Xia Wude, the seventy-two tribes of Mobei in the Western Regions marched eastward, under the leadership of the Golden Wolf King, the greatest leader of the Golden Horde Court for thousands of years, they crossed the Sanggan River effortlessly, and then the soldiers were divided into two roads, and the Jialing Pass of Chongzhou was feinted with suspicious soldiers, and the Wolf King himself led all the main forces to storm the Hangu Pass located in the border of Weizhou, three months later, listening to the first sound of firecrackers on the Shangyuan Festival, the first barbarian stepped on the ladder piled up with corpses, climbed the head of the Hangu Pass, and faced the rising sun, the barbarian took off his helmet and burst into tears with excitementใ
"Shout the name of my king! The sun rises in the east! Great Xia is a horse and a flat river! The Canglan River is close at hand!" The banner of the golden wolf king of the barbarian clan was planted at the head of the city of Hangu Pass, and the glory of the golden family reached its peak at this moment.
All the barbarians present began to cheer, this was the first time, the barbarians set foot on the land of Great Xia for the first time, there was no scorching cold here, there was no barrenness, there was no need to worry about not surviving the dark night of winter, some, just fertile fields for thousands of miles, rich in products. The water and grass here are fertile, and the Canglan River basin is full of granaries, and here is the kingdom of heaven that they will only appear in their dreams. Today's victory is their first and greatest first in thousands of years!
As the gates were cleaned, all the barbarians consciously parted to the sides, raised their hands to their chests, and paid the highest respect to their greatest king, who had come from afar with their horses.
The wolf king was not tall, his pale face even had a hint of sickness, walking on this land that did not belong to him, his steps were a little messy, and his body was a little trembling with excitement, and all the barbarians looked at him with an indescribable excitement. He didn't have a strong body, nor did he have a strong voice, but when he spoke, all the barbarians fell to one knee and prostrate at his feet.
"From this day on, our parents will no longer starve, our wives and children will no longer be cold, from this day on, we will have the richest land in the world, and from this day on, what we have will no longer exist only in the dreams that will wake up at any time!" You are my most loyal and warlike people, I will take your loyalty, with your love, with you, to the Canglan River, to Chang'an, to Loulan, and then we go all the way south, to drink a bowl of wine from Nanhuaicheng, to listen to a song of nostalgia on the banks of Qinhuai!"
"Greedy wolf, greedy wolf, greedy wolf!" everyone raised their heads and looked at the short, thin man with a burning face, and everyone began to cheer, they clenched the scimitar at their waists, and they were convinced of the future in their hearts.
The wolf king went up to the city tower and walked to the side of Wei Guogong, and the corpse that was shot into a hedgehog was holding a broken king flag, and the king flag did not fall, and the corpse did not fall. Following the direction facing Wei Guogong, the wolf king looked at the slowly rising morning sun with a longing face.
Suddenly, in the fiery morning light, a man walked in the field in the distance, wearing a shabby leather jacket, holding his hands in front of his chest, the cold breeze made him shiver from time to time, a huge long sword was wrapped in rags and stuck diagonally between his arms, and the black hat covered his eyes, making it impossible to see his face.
The man stopped in front of Hangu Pass and blocked the avenue leading to the Dragon Gate. The wolf king frowned, his heart was full of confusion, this man who didn't know where he came from, just casually blocked in front of him, blocking the way for his army to go south, a valley less than ten meters long, even if the high mountains on both sides were heavily ambushed, there was no way to take his hundreds of thousands of troops, let alone one person.
"Who is here, what are you here?" The wolf king held the city wall in his hand and looked at the man condescendingly, although his tone was flat, but the disdain and mockery in his eyes could not be concealed.
"My name is Liu Bai, and I am here to support the Duke of Weiguo. The man raised his head, took off his fur hat, and showed an indifferent smile, only to see him rub his hands, cover his mouth and snort a few hot breaths, the winter morning made him a little uncomfortable.
"Liu Bai, the people of the Liu family in Cangzhou, should help, the 100,000 warriors under the command of this king, you are alone, how can you come to help?"
Liu Bai chuckled, raised his hand and stood the big sword on his chest on the ground, and made a muffled sound, "This sword is called Fengmang, which is given by an elder, weighing one hundred and eight catties, the hilt of the sword is one foot and two minutes long, the sword body is three feet and three inches long, the whole body is dark, dull, because of the special material, so there is no blade and no mang." โ
"If you want to rely on this bladeless black sword, you want to stop my army of 100,000?" The wolf king couldn't help coughing a few times, his pale face showed a sickly flush, and with the sneer at the corner of his mouth, he calmed down the anger in his chest and teased: "It is said that the people of Great Xia are drunk and dream of death every day, do not want to forge ahead, and are willing to fall, I didn't believe it before entering the customs, but now, I believe it, just one person and one sword dare to come to our army to call for battle, such courage, who gave you?"
"When I was young, I followed my father in the mountains. Liu Bai ignored the wolf king, just reached out and tightened the hair on the neckline, and said to himself: "When I was in my twenties, I worked harder than everyone else, but I always lost to the brothers of the same family, I didn't understand why, one day, my father told me that the reason why I lost was because I didn't understand myself. When I was thirty years old, I understood my father's words, and since then, all the brothers in the mountains have never won against me again!"
"When I won everyone, I went down the mountain, traveled all over Kyushu and continued to learn from the masters, but I still kept losing, which made me very distressed, after a few years, I returned to the mountains, and asked my father about the doubts in my heart, and my father told me that the reason why I lost was because I didn't know the height of the sky, and I didn't know the thickness of the earth. โ
"I went down again, to see the highest mountain, to see the most beautiful water, to walk the most difficult road, for many years, I did not do it again, I listened every day, watched, listened to all the sounds I could hear, looked at everything I could see, and when I was forty years old, I understood my father's words again, and I picked up the sword in my hand again, and the feeling of invincibility was found by me again. โ
"When no one could beat me anymore, I went back to the mountains, because my father was going to die. At that time, he was very old, and I knew that he would die at any time, but I did not expect it to be so soon, and I went to his bed in a sad way, and held his hand and told him that I had defeated everyone in the world, and that I was the strongest swordsman. I asked him if he was proud of me. โ
"I didn't expect my father to say anything, just kept shaking his head, and nodded, I was very anxious, very angry, and asked him why he shook his head, am I not the strongest swordsman. After a long time, my father used his last strength to tell me that I was the pride of his life, but that I was not the strongest swordsman in the world, because I still had one thing to do. โ
"What's the matter?" Everyone didn't speak, quietly listening to Liu Bai's story, and when he heard that his father, who seemed to be full of wisdom, was about to die, the wolf king, who also regarded himself as a wise man, twitched inexplicably in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "Is there a more powerful warrior that you haven't defeated?"
Liu Bai shook his head, his expression was a little gloomy, and he was silent for a while before he sighed lightly and said: "Father told me that in the past few decades, I have seen myself and known the heaven and the earth, but I have never thought of understanding the world and the world, and the vast number of sentient beings outside of myself do not understand the suffering of all sentient beings, how can I know the peak of martial arts!"
"My father has been dead for more than ten years, I have been following his last words to find, before today, I have not been found, nor understood, until the death of Wei Guogong, at the last moment, he also saw me, I also saw him, but I was looking at him, but he did not look at me, I saw from his eyes, I saw what I had been pursuing all my life, and I instantly understood what my father said to me when he was dying, on the way here, I slowly dissipated my life's cultivation, forgetting every move that I had studied hard for decades, and after decades, I could finally feel the biting cold again, I was very happy and sadIn my lifetime, I finally found something worth protecting with my life, but I also saw my sister become a widow. โ
"Hahaha! Okay!" The wolf king on the city tower suddenly laughed, looking a little crazy, he understood Liu Bai's words, looking at Liu Bai's firm eyes, he was suddenly a little confused, a little angry: "Liu Bai, what do you want to protect?
The warm light of the morning sun hung behind Liu Bai, he put away his smile, his expression slowly became solemn, his loose figure began to become straight, and his shoulders were no longer rickety, for a long time, he leaned the long sword on the ground, and held the hilt of the sword with both hands, with the dazzling edge, he began to move, step by step, and rushed towards the direction of Hangu Pass, the long sword drew a deep mark on the ground, and the splashing sparks accompanied by Liu Bai's roar completely ignited the most beautiful morning sun in the sky.
"I should be aware of all beings with my heart. I should use my sword to suppress my mountains and rivers!"