In the wild mountains and forests, a group of people ran out of breath. They looked back from time to time, then raised their heads and continued on their way.
This group of people was Song Bokang and his party who escaped from Liangzhou City. In addition to Song Bokang's wife and daughter, there were also civil and military officials from Liangzhou City.
In fact, when he escaped from Liangzhou City, Song Bokang did not want to escape to one of the three cities of Jincheng, Wuwei, and Haojia to regroup and regain the land he lost.
The reason is that he is afraid that Liangzhou City is located at the junction of Liangzhou and Jingzhou. If he goes deep into the hinterland, he may be caught by Cheng Dalei's men. Then his end will definitely not be good...
So, between regrouping and escaping, Song Bokang chose the latter.
The world is big and your life is important. If you lose your life, you will have nothing.
A group of people embark on the road to escape, which is naturally not a pleasant thing. They have to travel through mountains and rivers all the way, and they have to worry about the pursuit of soldiers behind them.
Fear, hunger, illness... these are tormenting the nobles like Song Bokang. Even in a bitter and cold place like Liangzhou, they are pampered and have suffered this kind of suffering there. So they complained endlessly along the way, complaining a few words from time to time.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Lu Luo called out several times and said, "I really can't walk anymore. Let's take a rest."
Song Bokang was also exhausted. He looked around and said, "Okay, let's rest where we are and continue on our way later."
When everyone heard this, some fell to the ground. One can imagine the torture they suffered along the way.
Song Bokang sat on a big rock, naturally feeling uncomfortable. After bypassing Sanshui Pass, they had now entered Jingzhou. The road ahead was still long, and they didn't know how much suffering they would have to endure before they could reach Chang'an.
When he thought of this, his mood became even worse.
And returning to Chang'an does not mean that everything is over. After all, he lost Liangzhou. If today's emperor lets him go, I am afraid that even Cui Xiang will not forgive him.
However, these things are not a big problem. Song Bokang has already thought of an excuse. He can completely shift the responsibility for this defeat to others. He can say how brave he is, how cunning the enemy is, and how stupid his companions are.
Before he became the King of Liangzhou, he spent a lot of time in Chang'an City and was quite experienced in doing these things.
What really made him unhappy was this defeat.
Why did you lose the city of Liangzhou in such a stupid way? You had a great chance to unify Liangzhou, okay...
After suffering so much along the way, the dignified King of Liangzhou was driven like a lost dog. It was not that he had never thought about why he lost this battle.
After thinking about it, I still feel that I have done nothing wrong. Who would have thought that Cheng Dalei would attack Liangzhou City at night and break through the city gate. What can I do if I don't run away if the city gate is broken? Could I stick my neck out and let Cheng Dalei kill...
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There is a reason for every choice and every step is correct. But why did you make the right move and push yourself to this ending?
This is one of the things that Song Bokang couldn't figure out.
Looking at the companions in front of me, they are all nobles of Liangzhou City, and most of them are supported by aristocratic families. Usually everyone is well-dressed and well-fed, but today they were sighing and feeling so spineless.
Song Bokang thought that if he was really at fault, he had misused these people. The children of aristocratic families had more resources, but they were so useless at the critical moment.
Song Bokang suddenly had an idea in his mind: Maybe such an empire should have ended long ago.
When he was thinking this, he didn't know that someone right here had thought this way not long ago.
There was sudden movement in the mountains and forests ahead. A group of people were like frightened birds, and everyone looked panicked.
Could it be that some jackals, tigers, and leopards came here? Everyone walked here exhausted, so maybe they became food for the jackals.
Fortunately or unfortunately, what came was not a beast, but a human being.
A group of ferocious men sprang out from the dense forest and surrounded Song Bokang and his party. They were like big bad wolves seeing a little white rabbit, showing their arrogant smiles.
Song Bokang finally calmed down, cupped his hands and said: "You heroes, if you want money or silver, you can take it as long as you don't hurt our lives."
A man riding a black horse separated from the crowd and walked in, and his eyes met Song Bokang's. Song Bokang's face suddenly changed drastically, and he was as pale as paper without any blood.
"Master Song, long time no see."
Song Bokang's eyes darkened and he fell to the ground. Before he fell into unconsciousness, he uttered three words:
"Bai Li Sheng."
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Today's Liangzhou City is in dire straits, but after a series of events, the current situation has finally been stabilized.
Gao Lishi and Xu Ling'er were brought back from Luoyuzhai, and Gao Lishi began to deal with things in Liangzhou City. At present, the existence value of Luoyuzhai is not great, it is better to give up directly, use Gao Lishi's ability, and let him help
Deal with some things.
Even Su Ying came to Liangzhou City from Toad City to use her abilities and help with some things. Whether or not, Cheng Dalei had put his focus on Liangzhou City. After all, Toad City was too small, and Shuofang City had not yet
In comparison, Liangzhou City is more suitable as the main base during development.
In this way, Su Ying has a little more energy. She is usually raised like a canary, which is indeed a bit boring for her.
Even Fan Lihua helped to close some things. It can be said that Cheng Dalei's available personnel were used.
After concentrating everything, most of the messy things were solved.
Heshen comforted the residents of the city, and Cheng Dalei issued strict orders. Anyone who dared to harass the civilians would be severely punished. Those criminals who took the opportunity to cause trouble would not be lenient. There were security teams patrolling the city every day. Such strict orders
This temporarily stabilized the mood of the civilians.
After that, Heshen returned to Shuofang City. There were many things to deal with there, and he also had to worry about others attacking Shuofang City.
Liu Bei handled military affairs, surrendered some troops and let some go, while leaving some behind. There were probably more than 10,000 poor people who were willing to stay.
These people have just surrendered and are not yet considered Cheng Dalei's soldiers. It will take some time for them to truly become one of our own.
In the past ten days or so, Cheng Dalei has been extremely busy, and only now can he finally take a breather.
Today, He Shen is in charge of Shuofang City, Yang Guozhong is in charge of Toad City, and Cheng Dalei, Liu Bei and others are in charge of Liangzhou City.
What makes Cheng Dalei strange is that in the past ten days, there has been no movement at all in the three cities of Wuwei.
They neither raised troops to attack nor sent anyone to express peace.
Cheng Dalei dispersed his troops, with Qin Man guarding Toad City, Guan Yu guarding Shuofang City, and the remaining troops gathered in Liangzhou City.
Now, if the three of them want to cause trouble, Cheng Dalei doesn't need to worry too much.