Under the tall city wall, amidst the deafening shouts of killing, Sima Zheng stood up holding the long spear in his hand, but found that his body was heavy and his vision was blurred. He tried hard to look forward, but could only barely see countless people in the smoke and dust.
The final figure, mixed with true energy, steel, and flags, was rushing toward him.
Sima Erlong was not a timid person, and he was clearly in a certain predicament at the moment, so he roared loudly, injected radiant energy, danced his steel spear, advanced instead of retreating, and charged straight ahead into the smoke and dust.
How could the ordinary people of that generation be Sima Erlong's opponent? When the swords and swords met, those figures just rolled to the ground like real smoke and dust. Only Sima Zheng was charging all the way, and despite being invincible, he also felt that his body became heavier and heavier.
And finally, as he fought his way along the city wall and defeated countless besiegers, he felt his body gradually become numb, his limbs gradually became weak, and it became difficult to support him, and then he finally sat down on the ground.
At this time, a gust of wind blew away countless smoke and dust around him. Sima Zheng, who was full of pain, looked around, but felt his heart sink again, because behind the smoke and dust, a group of soldiers and horses were in tight formation, moving slowly like a forest, heading towards him.
Coming from the side.
It's like a mantis stalking the cicada with the oriole behind.
Soon, Sima Zheng also saw clearly who was coming - in the middle of the team was a flag with the word "deposed" on a red background. The image of the leader gradually became clear. It was the thief Beidi Zhang who had had some friendship in the capital.
three.
There were also Xiong Bonan, Li Shu and others surrounding him.
"Zhang Sanlang! Do you even want to take my life?" Sima Zheng struggled to get up and blurted out, but he felt a little weird. Why did he ask this?
What situation have you fallen into?
"Everyone in the world can take it, why can't I take it?" Zhang San urged the yellow gelding under his crotch and moved forward boldly. "Besides, until now, don't you know that the basic talent of your luck comes from Sanniang?
Stolen! My house is just an empty shell!"
When Sima Zheng heard this, he felt as if he was struck by lightning, but for some reason, he had no intention of refuting it.
"It's just an empty shell, and you also visualized the armor stomach, isn't it just an empty shell versus an empty shell?" Zhang San continued to laugh when he saw this. "Do you really think you can cultivate the armor stomach into a human being? You can visualize people with Chong and the stomach.
Oops, I am wholeheartedly dedicated to cultivating for others, and if you visualize the Jiawei, you can only make wedding clothes for others... Wedding clothes, wedding clothes! Sima Erlang, sooner or later, your Jiawei will be worn by others.
Yes! We are here today to snatch your armored stomach!"
When Sima Zheng heard this, he shouted back as if he was out of control: "I just have a stomach, who do you think you are? Are you qualified to collect debts for Sanniang? Aren't you also a villain who stole Sanniang's luck?
?Aren’t they also the puppets of Black Emperor and White Emperor?!”
Zhang Xing looked up to the sky and laughed: "So what? They regard me as a puppet, and I also regard them as clay sculptures. If I take away your foundation today, I can become a transcendent and a saint. I will settle accounts with them in the future... In other words,
There is a road ahead of me, and I can go on. No one can look down on me in the future, but you can only stop here... In this life, you are just a joke played by those things!"
Sima Zheng was stunned for a moment, and was about to blurt out something else, but suddenly his blood surged up, and he became furious on the spot: "Zhang San! Life and death have their own branches, and I can give back the luck and talent that I stole from others, but I
Is this half of my life just a cultivation practice? As a minister, as a descendant of others, and as a military and political leader of a place, I have no regrets. I have never used these cultivation practices to do evil. Do I have any meaning in these decades?
Since the people around me have the final say, do you alone have the final say?!"
Hearing this, Zhang Xing suddenly became quiet, and then stared over.
And Sima Zheng also gradually felt that the surroundings became quiet. Not only that, the surrounding scenery of soldiers and horses gradually became illusory, but his body was heavy and his breathing was rapid, which eventually turned into an unbearable sense of oppression.
The next moment, Sima Erlang woke up from his dream, sweating profusely, and turned over to sit up.
At this time, the window was already slightly bright, and Sima was stunned on the spot after looking away from the window where the strong south wind was blowing - in the attic where he was resting, opposite the bed, there was a relatively familiar person sitting.
Sitting on a chair, his face was pale and his figure was slumped, and then he looked at himself with a complicated expression.
This person turned out to be Cao Lin, the uncle of the current emperor and the great master.
"I had a dream." Sima Zheng actually did not ask about the other party's situation immediately. Instead, he talked about the strange dream demon just now. "Did the emperor's uncle do it?"
"I don't have that ability." Cao Lin slowly untied his robe and exposed his chest. There was no blood or dirt on it, but half of his ribs were deeply dented, as if they had been hit hard by some cylinder.
Normally. "Not before, not even now...are you a dream demon?"
"Yes." Sima was staring at the other person's chest, and it took him half a day to come back to his senses. "I don't know where my actions and words in the dream came from... It seems like someone said it for me, for Zhang San."
"Did you dream about Zhang Xing?" Cao Lin loosened his robe and asked seriously.
"yes."
"What did he say in the dream?"
"Speaking of Bai Sanniang, speaking of Taoist Chonghe, speaking of Black Emperor, White Emperor..."
Cao Lin was slightly surprised, and then slowly shook his head: "You are already a stable grandmaster. With your level of cultivation, you still have such a dream, and I am so seriously injured. I came here without you noticing... I'm afraid.
It’s really strange.”
"It seems like someone deliberately wants to say something to me." Sima Zheng swallowed on the couch, as if he hadn't come back to his senses yet.
"I'm afraid it's not a human being." Cao Lin sighed. "This is Xuzhou City. There are people inside and outside the city. It would be difficult for ordinary real dragon gods to do such a thing. It's either the four emperors, the three radiances, or even the sky...
"
"I understand the three radiances and the four emperors, but Tian?" Sima Zheng was slightly puzzled. "Isn't Tian the Supreme Lord? How can he manipulate me like this?"
"God doesn't come to mess with you, but you can interact with God's will..." Cao Lin explained calmly. "In other words, it may be that you have glimpsed the secret of heaven and evolved it in your dream."
Sima Zheng was stunned for a long time, and then asked: "If you say this, there may be some hidden secrets in the words in the dream?"
"That's right." Uncle Cao Huang smiled bitterly. "But it's still elusive, because until things happen, you don't know which sentence is the secret."
Sima Zheng nodded, suddenly no longer mentioning his nightmare, and just looked at Cao Lin on the couch: "Why are you here, uncle? Where did the injury come from?"
"Did you know that I marched into Hebei before?" Cao Lin asked slowly.
"Of course I knew it, but I just knew it, and then the emperor's uncle came."
"When I marched into Hebei that day, I actually had two military plans. One was, naturally, to defeat Zhang Xing head-on if he overestimated his capabilities; the other was to lure Bai Hengqiu to march westward, so after defeating Old Master Zhang, I kidnapped Li
Determine, enter Hongshan, leave Shangdang, and enter Taiyuan. In this way, you can kill two birds with one stone. At the same time, the Bai and Zhang families will be defeated, and you can breathe a sigh of relief for the Wei Dynasty." Cao Lin responded with a sigh. "Of course, it doesn't matter if you kill one stone and kill one stone.
, I even half-accepted it. But I didn’t expect that Bai Hengqiu was superior and controlled me at every turn... In the end, I was blocked by him and Chong He in Hongshan."
"What kind of cultivation is Mr. Bai?" Sima Zheng narrowed his eyes.
"The Grand Master...the serious Grand Master has not yet completed the construction of the pagoda. He must build the pagoda in the Western Capital." Cao Lin couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly. "He is the only one in Hongshan, Hebei.
Then they can control each other with me, let alone Taoist priest Chonghe who may be the real number one on the heavenly list... That battle was a clean one, and I had the intention of fighting for my life, but in the end, although Chonghe was injured, I was also injured.
He suffered a fatal wound, and now he just waits for his true energy to run out and the gods and humans to decline."
Sima Zheng opened his mouth, and then exhaled: "But if this is the case, why did Zhong Cheng come to Xuzhou?"
"I wanted to go to Jiangdu." Cao Lin said with a bitter smile. "But I can't cross the Huai River."
Sima Zheng looked at the other party, obviously a little confused: "Is the injury to this extent? Then I will send a boat to send Zhong Cheng across the river."
Cao Lin slowly shook his head: "If I go to Jiangdu with this attitude, not only will I not be able to accomplish anything, but I will humiliate myself, bring humiliation to myself, or even intensify the situation."
Sima Zheng was suddenly enlightened and smiled bitterly: "We can't keep this matter secret for a few days, right? The war in Hebei has intensified in a few days, and everyone will know about it."
"It's only a day that I can hide it. At this point, I just hope that nothing will happen during my lifetime... Not to mention, instead of going to Jiangdu to cause trouble, I have now thought of a new idea, which may help me maintain my decency." Cao Lin said on the side.
As he spoke, he managed to cheer up and look at the other party. "Sima Erlang, I have no hope in Jiangdu. I just want you to lead the Xuzhou army back to the Eastern Capital."
Sima Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he felt that his heart was beating wildly, and even the great master could not calm down.
Because he has realized that this decision will directly affect his destiny for the rest of his life.
"The Eastern Capital is in the world." Sima Zheng said slowly. "The Wei Dynasty is out of date again. If you go to the Eastern Capital, you will definitely be besieged from all sides by the world!"
"So what?" Cao Lin suddenly smiled. "It will only be more difficult for you in Xuzhou..."
Sima Zheng opened his mouth but said nothing.
"I don't know what the specific situation is in Jiangdu, but if I lose, there will definitely be a big chaos. This is why I went to Jiangdu before, and if there is a big chaos, it will definitely be caused by the Forbidden Army. At this time, whoever is the leader of the Forbidden Army will come to cause chaos.
"It has nothing to do with whether this person is willing or not, whether he wants it or not, and what his abilities are." Cao Lin said with a smile. "And the reason why your fathers became leaders of the Forbidden Army is because they are waste and the slowest to cause chaos;
Secondly, it's because you are in Xuzhou and are known as loyal ministers all over the world... These days, you have received countless personal documents and old letters, including seeing many messengers in person, right? They all say that Cao Che's fellow is in Jiangdu.
How can I break my heart and make you make plans in advance, right or wrong?"
"Yes." Sima Zheng did not lie.
"They are waiting for you to respond. Once you respond, rivers of blood will flow in Jiangdu." Cao Lin continued to laugh. "And now, when my defeat is passed on, even if you don't agree, they will do what they want... then you
What can we do if we are still in Xuzhou?"
"I...I will lead troops to Jiangdu to rescue him!" Sima Zheng blurted out, as if he had already had an idea.
"It's too late." Cao Lin said with a bitter smile. "And believe it or not, once you cross the Huaihe River, your troops will lose control... They all want to go back to Dongdu, not to Jiangdu, and the Forbidden Army is colluding with each other.
If there is communication, your prestige alone cannot determine their management for several generations."
"Then let's cross the river together now and welcome the saint back to the Eastern Capital?"
"That is self-destruction... He will definitely not obey, and the Imperial Army will immediately start a rebellion after hearing the news. I have no deterrent effect. Your age, seniority and cultivation are not enough to suppress the entire army, and you will even be coerced by them... Sima
Erlang, he doesn't want to go back, and would rather die than go back. The Imperial Army wants to go back, and they want to go back even if they risk their lives. This is a deadlock! Even I couldn't do it before, let alone you and me now?" Cao Lin sighed. "Don't want more.
Think about it, go to Dongdu! Go along the Huai River, Du Po Formation is exhausted in the upper reaches, you can easily defeat it in one battle, and you can also take Wang Daiji with you, and then go north along the Ru River to Yingchuan and return to Dongdu. Don't
Going to the east border, Zhang Xing is now at a disadvantage in Hebei. If you break the east border and the gang is dispersed, Bai Hengqiu will be unstoppable."
Sima Zheng sat still and said nothing.
"Cao Che, I'm sorry for everyone in the world, but for some people, it's good enough." Cao Lin continued. "Sima Erlang, there are some things I don't want to say, because I will inevitably have to argue with them.
Most of the things in this world cannot withstand dialectics, but even if they cannot withstand dialectics, things are still the same, and they always have some meaning... Sima Erlang, you make your own decision. Anyway, I am no longer able to do anything. I am only in Xuzhou.
Suffering hard and waiting for destiny."
Sima Zheng was in a state of confusion.
From childhood to adulthood, my grandfather’s teachings, the praise of people around me, the Cao family’s favor, the family’s glory, the support of my subordinates, the success of my practice, and of course the grief and anger of my grandfather before his death, the antics of his father and uncles, the Wei Dynasty
The chaos, Zhang San’s ridicule.
It is inevitable to avoid those strange messages from the dream demon just now and the current chaotic situation.
Cao Lin, the great master, could not even cross a river. The Wei Dynasty had lost its last pillar. Now it seemed that he wanted to make this new pillar by himself... but it was not the pillar of the entire Wei Dynasty, but only the eastern part of the Wei Dynasty.
The backbone of the city.
"Sooner or later, your armor and stomach will be worn by someone else!"
Sooner or later, Dongdu City will fall into the hands of others!
But does that make no sense?
Since everyone is bound to die, can we act unscrupulously and ignore the principles of nature and humanity?
"I'm going to Dongdu." Sima Zheng only thought for a moment on the couch, without even arranging his clothes, and then gave the answer. "But it's not for Cao Wei, and it's not for any reason, it's just because it's right to go to Dongdu...
...There are still millions of innocent people in the Eastern Capital, but they are unarmed and need to be defended. Moreover, there is food and fodder in the Eastern Capital to support people. Going there will also make the people of Xuzhou more relaxed, not to mention that everyone in Xuzhou wants to return to the Eastern Capital...
…Only return to the Eastern Capital to stabilize one side, and ignore the rest.”
Cao Lin felt relieved, but blood oozed out from his chest.
The south wind outside the window also suddenly stopped.