The night is so deep that I can't even see my fingers...
But, it's not peaceful.
Because, in the dark Chang'an City, a noisy sound soared into the sky.
Because, for the rulers of Chang'an, today is a day worth celebrating.
In a rather "arduous" tug-of-war, they defeated the enemies who tried to challenge their throne, hung the head of Dong Cheng, one of the rebel leaders, on the city wall, and also let the ministers Sun Rui, Yang
Zan and others accompanied him. Although several other rebel leaders such as Wei Xu, Hou Cheng and others escaped, they also succeeded in capturing the seriously injured Hao Meng and also chopped off his head.
The most important thing is that after this battle, several forces near Chang'an that had always made Li Jue and Guo Si unhappy were completely eliminated, thus making the troops stationed near Chang'an more "pure". After Li Shushi's army
Being able to purify your troops when you are in a situation will obviously have a positive impact on future battles.
Of course, Li Jue and Guo Bang also successfully recruited several rebel troops, but there is a question mark as to how useful the defeated ones who have lost their courage can be on the battlefield. However, at this moment, as long as
If you can stand on the city wall, you are a good soldier.
Therefore, even if there are menacing enemies hundreds of miles away, tonight will still be a pleasant night.
Not only was the supply of wine freely available, but meat could be eaten with open arms, even those soldiers who had made meritorious service could even be given some delicate women - stolen from the homes of ministers related to the rebels, and those who took advantage of the chaos.
Collected from the homes of ordinary people and merchants in Chang'an - anyway, things that do not have enough power to protect them in this war-torn era will end up like this.
This is a crazy time.
Various noisy sounds were constantly heard in Chang'an City. There were shouts, loud talking and laughing, and obscene laughter and gasping mixed with screams and desperate cries.
Chang'an, it seems that I am destined to have no sleep tonight.
A dark figure escaped from the dark passage and listened quietly to the distorted noise coming from Chang'an City. His dark eyes that merged with the night stared at the still towering walls of this ancient city.
, as if everything in front of you is imprinted in your mind forever and becomes a part of your body.
After a long time, he sighed softly, turned around and left without saying a word, followed by several silent figures.
There is no light tonight.
So the road tonight is particularly difficult.
He didn't know how many times he had been scratched by dense branches and tripped by the muddy ground. His delicate body had obviously never experienced such a harsh environment, and his poor physical fitness had never experienced such a harsh environment.
test.
This difficulty almost gave him the urge to give up.
After all, compared with the difficulties at hand, although his previous life continued to torture his nerves and even his life was more or less affected, at least he was able to have enough food and clothing. He would not have to suffer this kind of thing either.
Torture from sex.
Should I choose to continue to accept mental torture or continue to endure physical pain?
"Is this my future? But now that I have taken this step, I have no intention of regretting it."
Thinking like this, he felt that the face that made him grit his teeth seemed to appear in front of him again.
What also emerged at the same time were the words he had said to him before leaving:
"Leave here and go to the Central Plains. There you should be able to find someone who can restore the glory of the Han Dynasty. If you stay in this city, you may never see that day come."
"No, you seem to have missed someone."
"Ah, you are talking about Bingzhou Mu Li Xue. Well, he may indeed try to help you complete your idea, although I don't know why he is so keen on this kind of thing instead of using this opportunity to achieve other ambitions
.”
"But you don't seem to want me to wait here for his arrival."
"Indeed, because in my opinion, such a result is a worse choice for you and him. Although neither he nor most of his subordinates care about this, and those sober-minded guys seem to
There is an ulterior motive, but I can’t stand it anymore, I don’t want what happened to Eun Sang to happen again to him.”
"You seem to attach great importance to him, or are you actually serving him?"
"Sure enough, as Enxiang once said, you are a smart man, and your brother can only become a trouble for you, or even a tool used by mediocre people to destroy this dynasty."
"Stop talking, you should answer the question I just asked."
"Oh? Unknowingly, you have gained a bit of the majesty of an emperor. Maybe Enxiang will be happy when he sees it? But if you want to ask about the relationship between me and that person, it's a bit complicated. But you
You can also simply think that I hope that person lives a better life, because only then can I have the opportunity to complete the task left to me by the grace minister."
"After arriving in the Central Plains, will my role be any different from now?"
"Well, maybe there will be, but maybe there won't be an essential difference. It depends on your skill and your intelligence."
"In other words, you just think that if I continue to stay in Chang'an City, it will affect the person you support, so you find an opportunity to drive me away. I think you are right."
"Haha, this is your freedom, Your Majesty. I am not a benefactor. I can forcefully change your mind."
"Let me ask you, will this big man die in my hands?"
"As long as you don't cause trouble for that person, it probably won't happen. Because if you are by that person's side, he will be the second benefactor, the best legion in the world, and the title of commanding the world, the princes
They would not want a guy who could fulfill His Majesty's orders to appear, just as they didn't want to see a guy like him in the first place.
They ordered the 'reckless man' they didn't like. And if His Majesty is not by his side, then his existence will be an insurmountable obstacle for any careerist who disrespects the big man. Of course, the premise is that His Majesty can understand what he should do.
What is this world doing? I don’t know if Your Majesty understands what I say..."
Does he understand?
Liu Xie didn't know.
It was as if he couldn't tell whether Li Ru's words to him were Li Shushi's instructions or just Li Ru's own decision - perhaps this man who once hid behind Dong Zhuo and made Dong Zhuo almost dominate the world will be
His eternal nightmare, or maybe all the chaos in this world are actually under his control.
He only knew that he could not disobey that man, because the man hiding in the shadows had already decided everything.
Just like Dong Zhuo in the past, or even closer, those court ministers and careerists like Dong Cheng who thought they had their own tricks, and the followers of Li Jue and Guo Si who thought they had overcome all obstacles.
It seemed that they all just followed the script designed by the man, performed on stage, and then waited for the curtain call.
The only thing that confused and disturbed him was that he, the emperor of the Han Empire, played a role in that man's script.
Let him bet his life to find this answer.
As long as the emperor Zuo of the Han Dynasty does not end in his hands, as long as the emperor Zuo of the Han Dynasty can continue. It doesn't matter if he is allowed to follow that man's script.
The night is long and the road is difficult.
A young emperor is trying to summon up the courage scattered in his body, hoping to gather these "stragglers" to become the driving force to support him moving forward.
But the result of doing so seems to be just making the body more tired.
Although a certain lost snail once said something like, "Add courage at the end, and most of your words will become positive." However, that was just verbal coolness.
If you really want to do it, it will still feel so difficult that you want to give up.
Especially since the road ahead is still so dark. There is no light at all.
Father, is my choice... right?
When the Xiliang Army planned to go to the emperor to seek a new reward the next day, they discovered that the emperor they had originally held in their hands had disappeared without a trace. Even the palace officials and spies placed in the palace
They also had no idea where the emperor was going.
Even if they turned Chang'an upside down because of this, they couldn't find any clues. In the end, they could only kill a few courtiers who were usually not very pleasing to their eyes, but what kind of waves it caused in their hearts cannot be known by outsiders.
.
As a result, the whereabouts of Li Ru, who left a letter in the mansion and then left, became insignificant.
Okay, let’s not worry about the impact of the emperor’s disappearance on the Xiliang army for the time being. Let’s turn the camera to look at another group of people, a group of strange people galloping on the muddy land but walking on the ground.
"I said you, shouldn't you be leading the army in Hongnong? Why did you appear in my team? By the way, when did you come out? Are you not called Xiaoqiang, but the elusive Beifeng?! No!
ah!!!"
"Why do I feel so much malice from you, Shushi? Don't think that I won't dare to beat you because you have someone to protect you!"
"Come here, come here, I promise I won't let Tamago-chan beat you to death~"
"Don't stop me, don't stop me! What is Xiaoqiang and what is Beifeng? I always feel that my life is gloomy!"
Although the ground was either muddy or in an inlet filled with stagnant water, the cavalry team seemed completely unaware of it. The galloping horses kept splashing mud and stagnant water, but it was only a thin layer.
There is no feeling of being trapped.
It was precisely because of being in this magical state of walking on flat ground that Li Shushi and Lu Bu were in such a hilarious mood.
Well, at times like this, perhaps only Xiaoqiang, whose personality is very Erha-like to a certain extent, would ignore Li Shushi's "majesty". Even if a certain loli hadn't been watching eagerly from the side, maybe he would have been able to ignore it.
As Xiaoqiang himself said - if you beat Li Shushi, he will be beaten into a pig's head if not to death.
Xiaoqiang's behavior may be a bit "offensive" to Li Shushi, who is the leader, and from time to time he will abandon his troops for a duel - just like now, he definitely seems to be a stupid person without friends.
However, Li Shushi did not find it annoying, because at least in terms of mentality, he felt that he could not be a loner, especially those friends around him who had been traveling and playing together since they were young.
A special feeling.
Of course. It’s also because every time Erha Xiaoqiang does something like this, he will be raped by Su Xiaololi. Look at the arrogant Xiaoqiang in the army being ravaged in all directions and three-dimensionally by Su Xiaololi using various means...
Even thinking about it is very touching.
Without his capricious political attributes, Xiaoqiang seems to be surprisingly reliable.
Well, it would be better if you could be gentler when coaching your martial arts every day.
"Gongming, where are we now?"
"Reporting to my lord, according to the guide provided by General Fan, we have now passed the martial arts and are still about fifty miles away from our destination."
"You can see some smoke from the kitchen in front, we can go over and have a rest."
"My lord, please be sure not to be so rash. We are deep into the middle of Guanzhong. There may be enemies all around. You must be on guard."
"Gong Ming deserves to be commended for being so careful. However, he is not overly cautious. There are only a few smokes there. It is expected that even the enemy is just a small group of sentinel thieves. Do we think we are still afraid of each other?"
"What my lord said is true. Akira is a little too worried."
Regarding Li Shushi's statement, Xu Huang was very "sincerely convinced". Well, it's absolutely true, as evidenced by Li Shushi's ability to read people over the years.
But it's no wonder that Li Shushi is so confident. In his team, not only does Su Xiaoluoli, the hidden boss behind the scenes, serve as his final trump card, but he also has Dian Wei, Xu Chu and many other guards, plus the fierce general Xu Huang and a certain general.
He is a mysterious person who calls himself "
Zhang De's guys, as well as Lu Xiaoqiang and his bodyguards who broke in at some unknown time, as long as they weren't the ghost soldiers suspected of being Xiang Yu's bodyguards that they encountered that day, Li Shushi felt that one against five, no, even a fight.
Ten of them are probably no problem.
It seems that this kind of combat effectiveness is due to the existence of Li Shushi, a guy who is holding back.
Just thinking about it makes me think that they should have a moment of silence for their enemies.
The battle Xu Huang was worried about did not happen.
Although it looks a bit dilapidated, the place where the smoke rises is not a gathering place for bandits, but a relatively small residential area.
This village is mainly composed of people surnamed Deng and Fu. The former was once a military household. According to his claim, his ancestors were subordinates of Deng Yu, the leader of the twenty-eight generals in Yuntai. His identity is probably the same as the Deng family that Li Shushi once met in Zhangye.
Similar. And the ancestors of the family surnamed Fu
They are refugees who moved from other places. They respect Kunyang Hou Fujun, who is also the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, as their ancestors. It is a habit to climb high. If there is no special figure, no one will care too much about this one.
The problem of counterfeiting in a small village.
The chaos in Guanzhong has lasted for more than a day or two, so the people here are always wary of unfamiliar troops. Although they cannot pose any threat to Li Shushi's team, it is also impossible for Li Shushi to lead his troops to rush in to kill people and set fire, just for the sake of
Find a place to rest.
Li Shushi said that he is not a scumbag yet, and he still has some bottom lines.
However, they finally walked into this small village, and were politely invited into this dilapidated but still tenaciously living village on this land as the most distinguished guests.
The reason is naturally a certain goddess doctor who once gained such a great reputation in Guanzhong.
Well, maybe others need to spend a lot of words and time to prove a certain identity of theirs, but Su Xiaoluoli doesn't seem to have to do that at all, as long as she stands there crisply, with a smile full of love and tolerance on her face
, those villagers regarded her as the legendary miraculous doctor who treated the dead with bones.
I always feel that Su Xiaololi like this can definitely become the standard template for the image of Guanyin Master in the future.
Here we provide the troops with hot meals, hot water and a room to rest, and there they give away some dry food and medicines that they can carry with them. Then they let Su Xiaoluoli go around the world, getting what they need, and also give Li Shushi some gifts as a gift.
There is a lack of intelligence that they didn't care much about before - the local people may not understand those high-level things, but some of the details they have mastered have made up for some of the blind spots in the Bingzhou Army's intelligence to a certain extent.
For example, some latest news about their trip destination.
"...But my lord, Huang doesn't think it's a good idea for us to rush to Yi County like this. The relationship between Ma Shoucheng and Han Wenyue is well known. Although the two of them were alienated by Dong Zhuo, he is definitely not friendly to us.
I have heard Jia Liangdao say before that we have sent people to test the other party before, but the other party's response was very resistant..."
"But aren't the horses now at the end of their rope? As you just heard, the current Xi County is not the same Xi County when Dong Zhongying built Xi Wu. The current Xi County is not only dilapidated but also doesn't have much food in stock. The horses
Before, we had been trying hard to ask Li Jue and Guo Si to switch defenses, and we had not carefully managed Xi County. Originally, we expected that even if we didn't show up,
, they will definitely not survive next spring, but now, whether they can persist until the first snowfall is a question. The most important thing is that they have almost nowhere to go now. Well, maybe Zhanglu in the south will be a good place to go.
, but can Zhang Lu allow the tens of thousands of troops in Ma'er's hands to enter Hanzhong together... Gongming, what do you think you would do if it were you?"
"Ma Shoucheng's thoughts are unpredictable. Even a small Hanzhong cannot accommodate two hungry wolves."
"This kind of thing is not easy to say, but if it is easy, maybe it is not so difficult after all."
"My lord means..."
"Ma Teng is not Han Wenyue, Bian Wenxin. He was born in a poor family. His family was already in a difficult situation, but he didn't expect that his father died young. He may have read some books intermittently, but in order to support his mother, he could only raise his elder brother.
He spent most of his time chopping wood and hunting. This experience certainly cultivated his hard-working and persevering character.
personality, but this kind of person is prone to a considerable sense of inferiority to a certain extent. This mentality will make them either extremely dependent on the advisers around them for advice, or they have strong confidence in themselves, and may not be able to deal with small things.
I can listen to other people's opinions, but when it comes to key decisions, I may not be able to."
"Well, according to the news from Mr. Wenhe, Ma Shoucheng should be more inclined to the second type of person mentioned by the Lord."
"Zhongde and I think so too. Such a person is either headstrong or indecisive, but either way will not allow him to make a decision that is beneficial to us. However, if we just say that Ma Shoucheng is not impeccable.
, if the information is correct, even if Ma Shoucheng is like this, there are still two people who can influence his decision."
"Huh? This kind of person who is unwilling to accept the opinions of those around him can also be affected? Well, it must be his close relatives."
"Gongming is really powerful and he hit the nail on the head. So if we want to achieve our goal this time, the most critical thing is not Ma Shoucheng but his two sons."
"son?"
"The eldest son Ma Chao and Ma Meng Qi. His adopted son is also his follower Ma Dai and Ma Bozhan."
"So speaking of books, the little guy named Ma Chao must be left to me~"
Lu Xiaoqiang, why can I see your face everywhere? Be careful, I bribed Su Xiaololi to turn you into a girl!
Pan Sen: Actually, we think the idea of turning Xiao Qiang Niang away should be very good... (To be continued...)
