In the 16th year of Jingtai, Xia Yunshen looked at the group of hungry soldiers who were pale and thin but still swearing to be loyal to him, and smiled heavily.
After several years of conquest, from the beginning, he was unstoppable, until after Xia Jue's death, he was struggling.
At first, he thought he could successfully recapture Xia Jue's power, but who knew that the barbarian tribes in the border were simply a group of madmen who ate raw meat and drank blood.
When fighting, he was not restricted at all. He would do whatever he wanted. After conquering the city and territories, he was not satisfied with his title as the king and the prime minister. He still wanted to divide the country with him, and only had annual monies every year.
It's fine. From the beginning, he was under the banner of Emperor Li's cruelty and incorruptible. But once his subordinates, these wild people, would inevitably slaughter the people and humiliate women, once they attacked a city, they would inevitably slaughter the people and humiliate women.
, the elderly, weak, women and children, will not let go.
As a result, his reputation was greatly damaged among the people, but Jie Xia relied on the continuous transport of food and grass from the middle of the capital and Jiangnan. Even when he used his army to siege the city, he would ensure that the people in the city had no food and clothing.
worry.
This is exactly what he is most in short supply.
I heard that the food and grass, especially the supplies for the past two years, were all hers in the south of the Yangtze River and persuaded the wealthy businessmen in the south to voluntarily donate. What Xia Jie had to do was to give these wealthy businessmen one after the quellion.
A small title was erected to establish a merit monument for these people, engraved the names of these people on it, and it was famous in history.
What a good idea, a businessman has a low status.
Being able to have a title can also be praised by later generations.
In this way, there is no need for the government to force the collection of grain or forcibly hold fundraising meetings. Those rich and wealthy people, who have accumulated countless rice and grain at home, are scrambling to take out the food, grass and property at home, for fear of falling behind.
And he could have done this, but even so, he had lost the opportunity.
After the worries of having no food, grass and supplies, his morale was like rainbows and public opinion rose sharply, and he took several important towns from him in one fell swoop. His strength was damaged, and among the several prefectures he occupied, the wealthy businessmen had already seen him.
When he showed his defeat, he transported his property to the deep mountains and hid it, for fear of being related to him. Such titles and promises he had won were nothing but empty words and could not play any role.
One wrong step, one wrong step!
Now, he has retreated one after another, and has not won a single battle in half a year.
Every time the soldiers under his command took advantage of the two armies to pretend to be defeated and were captured, and more and more people took the opportunity to surrender to the enemy.
Until three months ago, he was besieged in the city of Chan with only 50,000 remaining people. The retreat route was cut off by the right-wing troops sent by Xia Jie, and in front was Xia Jie's personal leadership.
There is no way out for advance and retreat, and defeat in the battle is an inevitable ending.
During these three months, the entire army had no food to eat. In the military camp, some people secretly brought back the corpses of soldiers who died on the battlefield to satisfy their hunger.
He saw it, but he was powerless.
The lay Buddhist Qingshan looked at Xia Yunshen's silence, took a deep breath, knelt on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, please leave quickly with the thirteen Iron Guards in Yunyi."
Xia Yunshen closed his eyes and opened them again, there was a sarcastic look in his eyes, "Leave, where to go, like a wild dog, hiding from place to place, or hiding incognito, and living a life of no human or ghost!"
If he was doomed to lose, he would rather die than be like this.
A soldier stood up and shouted loudly: "Your Highness, you are the eldest son of the late emperor, with a noble status. Now the heaven has no eyes to protect the demon concubine of Li Emperor. You should leave first, wait for the opportunity, and then come back to take back the country.
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Xia Yunshen looked at the city wall in the distance with his eyes floating, and there were soldiers with rosy and energetic faces. On his side, he was full of weak people.
The soldiers on the opposite side should know that they are about to win.
Xia Jie and her were in the room, hugging each other, waiting for the good news of his defeat.
Yifang, Yifang...
These words were echoing in my heart, and I couldn't remember clearly. When did her face gradually become blurred. It turned out that time was the most powerful woman in this world, even if she loved so much.
Such a woman who is so charming in the country will be beyond recognition by the sharpness of time.
But why, her name is still echoing in his heart, day after day, year after year.
Even when he waved his butcher's knife to slash at the enemy on the battlefield, he would recite this name and wonder if the woman would see her most cruel face.
In recent years, the lay Buddhist Qingshan has seen Xia Yunshen's expression in such a daze and indulged manner as if he was drunk too many times.
He felt bitter in his heart.
Sure enough, the children he trained had gone on his path.
Half a lifetime of love and a lifetime of missing.
Time is fate!
The woman named Dou Yifang was indeed a demon concubine, but it was not that Xia Jie had destroyed, but that Yun Shen had destroyed, and that Xia Jie was fulfilled.
If it weren't for this woman, Yun Shen would have lost all his reason for a while, and even disrupted the harem pattern until he touched the previous dynasty. Perhaps, the battle between Yun Shen and Xia Jie might not have been resolved in a war, and Yun Shen might not have been able to
lose.
But Yunshen still didn't hate her after all. He even executed Hua Yunqing in that way for her.
The soldiers in the military camp said that Yun Shen felt guilty and executed his first wife in such a slanderous way, so he had to find a monk to seal Hua Yunqing's soul, and be imprisoned forever for generations and cannot be reborn.
Only he, the master, understands.
Yunshen was not worried about himself, but about that woman.
I lost the country and everything. Now, I am about to lose my life and pride, and I am defeated by the person I hate the most, and I still think about her.
If I had known that Yun Shen had such a deep obsession, I might have seen the signs of Yun Shen's affection for that woman, before Emperor Li had favored the woman, he also had a true love for him.
The woman was brought out from the palace and sent to Yun Shen.
Now, everything is too late.
Thinking of his former promise, Qingshan lay Buddhist stood up and waved his other people away. Looking at Xia Yunshen for a long time, he suddenly said lightly: "Shen'er, you go, go far, no matter whether you stay in Qingshan,
Or it’s better to hide from the world from now on, you will always have to leave your own life.”
Xia Yunshen smiled, pointed to the sky above his head, and said sadly: "Master, the world is so great that there is no place to be alone." He paused and his eyes were chilly, "What's more, Master, can't you remember it?
Since childhood, you have taught me that I must ascend the throne and be the emperor. In this way, you and I can be worthy of my mother's wishes, and I can be worthy of my mother's endurance for so many years, and the years of cold palace."
Qingshan lay Buddhists were stunned, "Shen'er, your mother is for your own good." At that time, if Shen'er was the eldest son but had no ambitions, I'm afraid Emperor Jing'an would not have left Shen'er long ago.
After all, the reason why Emperor Jing'an was willing to protect Shen'er was because of the last emperor's will. Only Shen'er was the legitimate heir to the throne and could confront Jie of Xia. If Shen'er was not here, the throne would be
It will always be from the Jie lineage of Xia.
Therefore, if Shen'er had expressed his unwillingness to be the crown prince at that time, I'm afraid the first thing that could not be introduced to Shen'er would be Emperor Jing'an.
Who would have thought that after many years of planning, Dou Yifang would have the destined disaster in Shen'er's fate?
Moreover, the rain and rain are turning, Shen'er just can't escape.
Xia Yun narrowed his eyes and smiled lowly, looking at the opposite side. He had often stood here for the past three months.
In the past, he often looked like this. When the two armies were fighting each other, he knew that she was living in the opposite city. He stared carefully and looked at it with his life. He hoped that even in a blink of an eye, she would appear.
On the city tower, he can take a look.
But in the past, he was mostly resentful and unwilling.
I was resentful of God's injustice and was unwilling to be unable to get her.
Now that he was trapped here and the defeat was decided. He looked at the city tower opposite and calmed down.
He no longer expected her to appear, after all, the city tower was too dangerous, she shouldn't have appeared. He just wanted to look at the place where she was living, in the highest place, looking at her most likely to appear, and it was him
I can watch quietly at the place closest to her, inhaling the same breath as her, and exhaling the wounds that linger in my heart.
"Master, what do you think she is doing at this moment?"
The lay Buddhist in Qingshan was speechless.
Xia Yunshen seemed to need the response from Qingshan lay Buddhist, and he kept talking on his own.
"I used to think that in this life, as long as I have a country, I can get anything, so it doesn't matter what I sacrifice or lose for the country."
His lips stretched out, showing a far-fetched smile, "Later, when I met her, I thought again, it's no big deal. As long as I don't care about her chastity, I wait for me to sit on the dragon throne and snatch her back. No matter whether it's a placement
It’s okay to be inside the palace or in the villa outside. I won’t think of her day and night, and it’s hard to rest.”
"But I later learned that there are some people you cannot use, sacrifice, or give up. No matter what the reason is, even the country cannot."
Xia Yunshen said in a quiet and quiet manner: "Master, you said, at the beginning of this battle, I told Xia Jie that if he gave her to me, I would take her away and fly away again and never get along with him again.
He fought, would Xia Jie agree?"
The lay Buddhist Qingshan was still silent, but Xia Yunshen had already answered himself.
"Xia Jie must not be willing. He regards her as much as anything else. How could she be willing? I am not as good as Xia Jie, nor as good as Xia Jie. At that meeting in the Eastern Palace, I still want to use her."
Xia Yunshen closed his eyes, and the pain of contraction in his internal organs became clearer and more frequent.
This is good. With Jie Xia here, he can still feel at ease even if he dies!
His eyes suddenly opened, Xia Yunshen looked at the lay Buddhist Qingshan and said calmly: "Master, I have already made a suggestion on whether to leave. You can go down first."
When Mr. Qingshan looked at Xia Yunshen like this, for some reason, a strong smell of sourness surged in his heart.
He could vaguely guess the decision made by Xia Yunshen, but he was powerless to stop it.
Even if he was talented all over the world, he could not change the end of this battle. Yun Shen was a royal family member. He was arrogant since childhood. Even though he had been living in the cracks, his blood still inherited the pride and conceit of the Daxia royal family.
It is obviously not something that the true royal family members can tolerate.
So that choice, even if it is cruel, is really the only choice.