Hearing this, Yunyang glanced at the smiling Liu Mingzhi in panic, took out his telescope and stood up to look towards the camp outside the city.
After a long time, Yunyang sat down on his knees in shock.
"The morale of the one hundred thousand soldiers and horses is completely different from the morale of the other half of the one hundred thousand or so soldiers and horses. They are not the real six guards of the New Army."
“Of course!
One hundred thousand soldiers and horses among them were the 100,000 soldiers and horses put together by the Forbidden Army and the soldiers and horses under the command of Haining Hou An Jianghe.
Of the 300,000 tiger and wolf troops under my command, only 100,000 of the real elite came, and the remaining 200,000 had already been distributed on the official roads leading to the capital to ambush.
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Just wait for the Six Guards of Northern Xinjiang under your command to capture them all on their way to Beijing!
Including the 50,000 soldiers and horses under General Dongfang Ming who obeyed your instructions and temporarily surrendered to me."
Liu Mingzhi looked at Yunyang’s fallen chess piece, and followed it with a piece.
“However, due to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city who were watching eagerly, you did not dare to personally lead all the soldiers and horses into the capital. You only sent a group of soldiers and horses to the capital to support the orthodox.
You want to support orthodoxy, but also want to guard against the hundreds of thousands of unknown soldiers and horses outside the city guarding the country. You want to be a person who has both loyalty and justice.
But you can’t save anyone!”
After Liu Mingzhi finished speaking, he took out a bamboo tube from his sleeve and gently pulled it towards the sky.
The sky immediately bloomed with a gorgeous flower.
In the New Army camp that was being set up outside the city, hundreds of carriages drove slowly out and headed towards the city gate.
Around the time of tea, thousands of soldiers and horses full of evil spirits escorted thousands of brocade robes from carriages. Crowds of men, women, old and young approached the south gate of Yingzhou City.
It turned out to be a group of Li clan members from the Zongren Mansion, and the leader among them was the King of Zhao, Li Tao, who was kidnapped by the Five Flowers.
“Old man, all the direct bloodlines of the Li clan are here. Whether the soldiers and horses of the Six Guards of Northern Xinjiang can enter the capital is a matter of doubt, even if they can get there by chance.
They support orthodoxy, but who are they supporting?”
Yunyang was dumbfounded as he looked at Liu Mingzhi, who looked like he had a winning chance and kept smiling.
"you you"
“Old man, among the thousands of direct lineage relatives of the Li family, see for yourself how many of them are worthy of your efforts?
King Qing dares to do so. King Yun and others have long since lost their qualifications because of their rebellion. What can you do if you forcefully support them? There is no way to make everyone in the world surrender.
Among the three generations of descendants, except for the child Zhao Wang Li Tao, there is still a chance to come forward.
But do you think I will give you this chance?”
“Sister Ya!”
"Um!"
Qi Ya stood up, took out a flag from Liu's waist, and waved it gently a few times according to the steps Liu Mingzhi gave her.
The moment the soldiers and horses under the city wall saw Qi Ya waving the flag in his hand, their swords clanged out of their sheaths and slashed straight at Li Tao. Li Tao, who was tied up with five flowers, instantly fell to the ground motionless, his blood dyeing the dust red.
Qi Ya’s delicate body trembled and she looked at the scene under the city wall in astonishment.
She had no idea what the flag that Mr. Dafu taught her meant.
The white jade neck swallowed a few times, Qi Ya silently retracted the flag and knelt down on the futon beside her with a complicated expression.
Yunyang held on to the fence, looked at Li Tao lying in a pool of blood with trembling eyes, and cried out.
“Your Highness!”
Liu Mingzhi seemed not to care about the situation under the city wall. He held a chess piece and gently rubbed the stubble on his chin, staring intently at the chess pieces on the board.
“It’s better to go down here.
Old man, who else can you save now?
In other words, which member of the Li clan do you still want to support the orthodoxy?
Go on and play chess with me. If you don’t play chess with me to the end, they will all die!"
Yunyang suddenly turned around and looked at Liu Mingzhi excitedly: "You are so cruel!"
“Sister Ya!”
The hesitation in Qi Ya's peach blossom eyes was self-evident, but looking at her husband's kneeling back as steady as a mountain, she silently stood up and waved the flag a few times.
The sound of arrows piercing the air reached the city wall. Hundreds of Li clan members in the front row were hit by the rain of arrows like fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind, and fell to the ground without any movement again.
“Stop! Stop! I’m going down, I’m going down with you!”
Yunyang's hunched body silently knelt down opposite Liu Mingzhi, picked up a chess piece and dropped it tremblingly.
“Old man, you want to save everyone, but you can’t save anyone!
You want to support orthodoxy, but you also want to guard the country and gain a reputation for both loyalty and righteousness.
Having both loyalty and righteousness, who doesn’t want to have this reputation, and I want to have it too.
But old man, life in this world is 90% unsatisfactory.
There is no such thing as loyalty and justice.
The only thing I ever hear is the phrase "loyalty and justice have been in dilemma since ancient times."
Yunyang didn’t reply, but silently held the chess pieces and moved them one by one.
About two-quarters of an hour later, the chess piece in Liu Mingzhi's hand hit the chessboard hard, killing all the dragons on the Yunyang chessboard, and he picked up the tea cup and tasted it.
“Life is like a chess game, old man. The dragon you insist on guarding will be killed by me after all!”
Liu Mingzhi’s words can be described as a double entendre, which is of far-reaching significance.
Yunyang stared blankly at the chess pieces on the chessboard. The chess pieces in his hand slipped quietly and rolled a few times on the chessboard with a clang.
The placement of a chess piece instantly messed up the chess game.
“Old man, bow down!
Stop killing people!
You can’t have both loyalty and righteousness!”
Yunyang looked at the chaotic chess pieces on the chessboard with his lips curled up, and looked up at Liu Mingzhi's sighing look.
“If I don’t surrender, what are you going to do with the Li clan members outside the city?”
Liu Mingzhi silently took the teapot next to Wenren Yunshu, and without saying a word, he leaned forward and poured a cup of tea for Yunyang.
Yunyang looked at the tea in the cup silently and shook his head quietly.
“It has come to this point, even the best tea is tasteless!”
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyebrows, reached out and took off the wine bag from his waist and handed it to Yunyang.
“Du Kang, why can only Du Kang relieve your worries?
I hope, old man, you can get rid of all your worries."
“I’m willing to give it a try!”
"please!"
Yunyang silently pulled out the stopper, raised his head and drank.
The drink slid down the corner of his mouth, wetting Yunyang's gray beard, Yunyang's lining collar, and even the tiger-striped and dragon-yun armor on Yunyang's body.
A full wineskin drips the last two drops of wine.
“Good wine! Good wine!”
Liu Mingzhi looked at Yunyang expectantly: "Has the old man figured it out?"
“How about giving me a day to think about it?”
"sure!"
“Don’t send it!”
“Sister Ya, Shu’er, let’s go first!”
“Well! Husband!”
Liu Mingzhi and his wife got up and walked towards the bottom of the tower.
The city tower with only Yunyang left was instantly empty.
Yunyang stood up unsteadily, glanced around at the soldiers and horses on the city wall and the army outside the city, and narrowed his eyes slightly at the rising sun.
After pondering for a moment, Yunyang lowered his head and looked at the neat armor on his body, and then he knelt down towards the floor.
Kowtowed heavily to the floor several times, Yunyang gently took out the sword from his waist, raised his head and looked lonely at the clear sky.
“Ruizong, I have failed to live up to your majesty’s entrustment on his deathbed, and I no longer have the dignity to live in this world.
Brother Jin Yi, brother Deng Kaicheng, and old man Wan Buhai, I won. I have lived longer than you!
Old brothers, I have devoted my loyalty to the country today!"
Yunyang stood up straight, the sharp sword in his hand placed on his neck.
“Your Majesty, I am incompetent!
Your Excellency! You really tried your best!
The old minister is here to find you and your brothers!”
There was a soft pop sound, blood sprayed out, and the sword fell to the ground. Yunyang's slightly withered hands held on to the railing tightly and did not fall down.
“Commander, do you want to use a hanging basket to push the commander side by side?”
The shrill shouts from the city tower caused Liu Mingzhi, who was standing on the city wall to get down, to change his face and fly towards the city tower.
"Step aside!"
Running into the tower, Liu Mingzhi happened to see Yunyang's figure falling down helplessly.
“Old man!”
“Give me the order quickly, quickly”
Liu Mingzhi looked at the blood foam at the corner of Yunyang's mouth and trembled.
“Old man! You are confused. Those people are all impersonations of death row criminals, and they are not real members of the Li family!”
Yunyang’s dim eyes suddenly relaxed, and he tightly clenched Liu Mingzhi’s palms tremblingly: “Pass the order to them, they are all fatal orders.
Don’t kill each other”
Before he finished explaining a sentence, the old commander Zhongwu Wang Yunyang's eyes disappeared and he was exasperated on the spot.
Sacrifice yourself for your country for your own loyalty!
“Old man, why are you suffering! What are you suffering from!”