"Have the people in the city been evacuated?" Li Danqing and Lu Shude walked side by side at the top of Dafeng City, directing everyone to reinforce the city's defenses while asking about the progress of what he had told them.
Lu Shude frowned when he heard this and said: "The attack by the Purple Sword Guard army came suddenly. The situation was urgent at that time. We did not have time to evacuate the people in the city. Besides... we were also afraid that after these people left Dafeng City, it would be difficult for them to survive.
A way to survive.”
After hearing this, Li Danqing stopped and looked sideways at Lu Shude.
Li Shizi, who was always laughing and joking, had such intense gaze at that time that Lu Shude's heart went crazy. He lowered his head in fear: "It's freezing cold outside Dafeng City, and the Purple Sword Guards are working for the tiger. I really can't bear to see the people displaced...
…”
Li Danqing smiled bitterly and shook his head: "In the final analysis, I didn't think well about this matter. I never thought that the Qin family would defect on the battlefield, which led to many mistakes in the plan. The death of Qingyun Army,
I cannot escape the blame for the death of Dean Yang and all of my colleagues in Yangshan..."
Lu Shude hurriedly said: "The prince is not from Yingshui County, but he is willing to stay and go through the disaster with us. His courage and kindness alone are enough to make me and the people of Yingshui County grateful. How can I blame him?"
He said, "You and I are neither saints nor saints, so how can we predict everything like a god? Your Majesty, you don't have to blame yourself!"
Lu Shude's words were sincere, but Li Danqing, who heard this, shook his head and said: "Enough people have died, and no one else will suffer misfortune because of this..."
Having said this, Li Danqing was silent for a while, and then said: "At least I will try my best to keep this kind of thing to a minimum. Sir, do you understand what I mean?"
The old man was stunned and seemed to understand something: "Dean, do you think Gale City cannot be defended?"
Li Danqing smiled when he heard this and said: "Sir, do you really think that I am a god? How can we compete with Youyun's nearly 400,000-strong army with just over 20,000 people in our hands?"
"Then Dean..." The old man was confused. Since Li Danqing knew that there was no hope of winning, why did he still defend this windy city?
Li Danqing has done a good enough job. As long as he orders the army to withdraw, no one in the world of Wuyang can say anything wrong about Li Danqing.
As if he had read through the old man's thoughts, Li Danqing said: "So many people have died, and I want to stay and give them an explanation."
"Sir, you have a righteous heart and don't want to see those innocent people suffer. I understand this feeling, but staying in Gale City will only lead to death. Sir, you can go to the granary to take out some of the rice and distribute it to the people, so that they can take the rice with them on the road.
, it should be enough for them to reach Yanma County."
Lu Shude's heart sank when he heard this. At first, he thought that Li Danqing wanted to disperse those people so that the food reserves in Da Feng City could last long enough so that they could stick to Da Feng City for a longer period of time.
But at this moment, Li Danqing actually ordered the opening of grain distribution, and prepared the grain for the tens of thousands of people in the city to go to Yanma County. As a result, the grain depot in Dafeng City was empty, and I am afraid it can only last for less than half a month. So let's put it this way
Come on, Li Danqing has long been determined to die and is ready to live or die with Gale City.
To be fair, even now, Lu Shude still found it difficult to understand why Li Danqing had to do this for Yingshui County.
Is it because the death of Qingyun Army and Yang Tong completely angered His Royal Highness, making him want to have a fight to the death to bite off a piece of Youyun's flesh, or is it because he couldn't bear to watch Yingshui County being eroded by Youyun, and the people were in dire straits?
After all, he had long heard of the Youyun people's treatment of the people of Yingshui County. People who had fled from Ma Tuo City and surrounding cities that had been invaded before spoke of this with gnashing of teeth.
Lu Shude didn't know, but he respected Li Danqing's somewhat stupid and even motivated decision from the bottom of his heart.
Not everyone in this world has to be a smart person.
And often those things that make people's blood boil and bring tears to their eyes mostly start from some decisions that seem extremely stupid at the time.
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"I understand, I'll do it now." Lu Shude thought of this and no longer hesitated. He nodded heavily and said at this time.
"Sir." Just when he was about to leave, Li Danqing suddenly stopped him.
Lu Shude was stunned for a moment and looked at Li Danqing, then heard Li Danqing say: "The old gentleman is old. He has been working hard for Dafeng City these days and has achieved great results. If you are willing, you can follow the people..."
Before Li Danqing finished speaking, Lu Shude interrupted with a glass of wine. The old man looked at Li Danqing with a smile and said: "I am sixty-five years old this year. The first half of my life was muddled. He was just a teacher. He talked loudly every day, which made the children boring.
It’s hard even for an old man to talk.”
"Later on, when there was a great disaster, it was Prince Li who came to my aid, which allowed my old body to survive."
"Now that the country is in trouble, the old man's shoulders cannot carry the burden, and his hands cannot lift the sword. Fortunately, the prince has not given up, so he has a place to use his talents."
"Children go into battle to kill the enemy, how can the old man survive in vain?"
"Being able to work with the Crown Prince...the old man..."
"How can I be proud of you?"
After the old man said this, he bowed respectfully to Li Danqing, then slowly turned around and left.
Li Danqing watched the old man's back leave. When the old man's figure disappeared, he sighed and walked slowly down the city gate.
Under the city gate, there were still people busy collecting the corpses, and the identities of the deceased people had to be checked one by one. It was impossible that they had risked their lives for Gale City, but in the end they could only erect an anonymous monument and then throw them all together.
Living in this world, a person has been very tired all his life. Only after death can one be alone in a room and finally be buried in peace.
Li Danqing stood there, returning salutes to those who saluted him one by one. Then he looked at the corpse lying on the ground with a gloomy look.
Looking at the faces that were once familiar or unfamiliar, lying silently on the cold ground at this moment, just looking at such a scene is shocking, let alone being in it, not to mention these guys are doing it for him and for the strong wind.
The city died.
Thinking of this, Li Danqing took out something from his arms. At that time, a short sword with a sharp edge hidden in a sheath was only three or four inches long, but the workmanship of the scabbard was exquisite, and someone carved a strong-sharp "Ji" in the middle.
"Character.
This was something given to Li Danqing by Mo Qingqiu, the senior sister who imprisoned Longshan, and it was made by Master Ji.
Li Danqing stretched out his hand to touch the lines on the scabbard, frowning, and murderous intent surged in his eyes, but then disappeared.
"I suddenly felt a little sad." At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in Li Danqing's mind.
Li Danqing, who was also immersed in sadness, was stunned when he heard this. The voice came from the blazing star spirit in his body. This guy has always regarded himself as extraordinary. The most common comment he gives to anyone including Li Danqing is that they are stupid and insignificant.
Li Danqing didn't expect it when he suddenly said these words.
"Are you also sad? I thought that the star spirits don't care about the life and death of mortals." Li Danqing whispered, there was no ridicule in his tone, just pure confusion and incomprehension.
"I thought so too." Star Spirit's voice came again, in a low tone.
"Mortal life is short and mediocre, fleeting like a white horse passing by. On the top of Yangshan Mountain, I have looked down at thousands of creatures. Watching them busy, coming and going, I always feel that they are trying their best.
, but in the end it still returned to nothingness, always feeling stupid, always feeling hard to understand.”
"Only stars are eternal, only stars can shine forever. But..."
As he said this, Li Danqing's body suddenly trembled, and a bright golden light suddenly emerged from his body, condensing into a blurry golden figure in front of him.
The golden figure raised his eyes and looked around, and his eyes fell on the group of Yangshan disciples lying on the ground. He walked forward slowly and glanced at them one by one.
Li Danqing was shocked when he saw this. Although he understood that the existence of star spirits was something beyond mortal cognition, the scene of a golden figure condensed in this way was still too magical in Li Danqing's opinion. He looked around
Looking at it, I saw that the people in front of the city gate were still busy with their own affairs, and did not show any strange color to the golden figure transformed by the star spirit.
Li Danqing suddenly realized that he seemed to be able to see the golden figure transformed by the star spirit.
"This guy's name is Liu Chenghuan. He is twenty-seven years old this year. I remember that he came to Dongqingyuan eighteen years ago. When he just left his parents, he hid in the house and cried alone for a long time. When he was eighteen years old, he fell in love with a man.
The girl named Xu Xian'er, it's a pity that the girl later married a young master from Yanma County, so he cried alone in the room for a long time. Well, he should be the guy who likes to cry the most in the past ten years.
." The golden figure stood still in front of a corpse, lowered his head and looked at the other person, and murmured in a calm voice.
After saying this, he walked forward for a while.
"This guy's name is Guan Qu, he's nineteen years old."
"He is the son of Guan Shanchun. Guan Shanchun died of illness seven years ago. This child followed Zhao Quan. He is usually timid and cowardly. What he fears most is walking alone at night. I thought such a guy is not good at all.
He dares to go into battle to kill the enemy, but it looks like he fought the battle beautifully."
The star spirit looked at the corpses on the ground like a treasure. He could name every disciple of Yangshan and tell their emotions. It was probably like what Yang usually said, the stars in the sky were always watching the corpses on the ground.
people.
"This guy must be Yang Tong." Finally he walked up to Yang Tong, looked at his blood-stained sun white robe, and stood still.
"The last time he came to Haoyang Wall, he was about the same age as you. He had a jade face and a green shirt, and his appearance was no worse than yours. In just a few decades, the handsome young man turned into a white-headed corpse on the ground. Human life is short.
Mediocre, yet inexplicably exciting..."
"He always thinks about Zhongxing Yangshan. I heard him talking to Sun Qiu'an's memorial tablet at night more than once, swearing that in fact the stars don't care... at least I didn't care once."
"Mortal emotions are too complicated and ridiculous. I always find them ridiculous and not worth mentioning."
"But now I have some understanding..." Xingling knelt down and reached out to gently touch Yang Tong's cold cheek.
"If the stars never care about mortals, then why would they respond to mortals' calls and project starlight from the starry sky hundreds of millions of miles away..."
Xing Ling murmured to himself, as if he was asking himself or Li Danqing.
"I don't know." Li Danqing hesitated for a while, but decided to take the risk of being sentimental and replied: "Maybe, it doesn't know it itself. So it sent you to help it find the answer."
Xing Ling was stunned and turned to look at Li Danqing in astonishment.
"Looking for answers?" he muttered to himself.
"Then... when you humans face such a thing, when there is an unspeakable sadness in your heart that you don't know how to get rid of, what will you do?" Star Spirit asked, no longer in his tone.
Instead of being arrogant like before, there is a sense of humility and sincerity.
Li Danqing thought for a moment, then smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"True sadness cannot be forgotten. It is like a pearl hidden in the soil. It lies quietly without touching it, but as long as it is touched, it is still unforgettable."
"All we can do is to place it as much as possible there, occasionally remembering it, occasionally thinking about it, and then use every possible means to send its creator into the abyss. Only by letting the deceased feel at ease can the living be at peace."
Star Spirit was stunned: "Are you talking about revenge? Have you thought about how to do it?"
At that time, Li Danqing clenched the dagger in his hand, stared at the star spirit, and whispered through gritted teeth.