Heaven

In the desolate wilderness, there is not even a tombstone...

Zhao Zheng sprinkled three cups of wine in honor of the departed heroes.

I heard from a familiar general that after the death of General Gu Lian, in order to preserve his remains, the generals who had received great kindness from him secretly stole the body and buried it here.Because he was afraid of being discovered by others, he dared not erect a monument. He only left nine piled stones here as a mark.

Zhao Zheng still can't believe that the great general who taught him martial arts, the art of war, and even the principles of loyalty to the monarch and the country would collude with the enemy and treason the country!

The three generations of Gu's family were loyal and loyal, but they disappeared overnight like this, and they were cast aside forever.

King Zhao was indeed so fatuous that he robbed the old general's daughter-in-law in public and forced his only son to commit suicide that night.Zhao Zheng can understand the sadness of the old general who sent a white-haired man to a black-haired man.

But the choice between family and country... and the more than [-] soldiers who died in the civil strife...

Zhao Zheng only hated that he was not in Julu at the time and could not prevent this tragedy from happening.

Sighing, he walked towards Jing Mingrui's bed on the morning sun, and he still had to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy today.

"That's very good. His Majesty will personally lead people to lead the battle, and our army will be responsible for responding at the rear at any time." Zhao Xin heard that Jing Mingrui did not object to his proposal, and his face flushed red.

Jing Mingrui nodded, and pointed to a point on the map: "Finally, our two armies will use the terrain to attack the Jing army back and forth, and the overall situation will be settled."

Jing Mingrui's plan was to break the enemy's line of defense directly by using force, and cut the Jing army into several sections with interspersed tactics, and then counterattacked and flanked the Jing army with Zhao Jun.This is because the Chu army is best at concentrating troops to win more with less, and secondly because the Jing army's local response command is weak.

In the end, there was only one possible escape route for the Jing army, which was Li Di's marching direction.Jing Mingrui calculated it in his mind, and felt that there was no defect.

The generals of the two armies discussed the details of how to respond and cooperate before ending the morning meeting, and the generals went back separately to prepare.Tomorrow, I had breakfast three hours earlier and raided the Jing army camp before dawn.

"Zheng'er, you go back with me first, I have something to say."

Zhao Zheng just wanted to go back to the camp, but was stopped by Zhao Xin.He nodded, guessing that his father was also a little worried that it was his first time participating in such a large-scale battle, so he needed to explain something extra.

In the early morning of the next day, the Chu army took the lead in sneaking out of the city gate under the cover of night.

Zhao Zheng sat on the horse, looking at the vaguely recognizable figure in the darkness in front of him, the palm of the knife holding the knife was full of sweat.

What his father said yesterday echoed in his ears. He never thought that he would have to make such a difficult choice between home and country.

Unfortunately, he didn't really have a choice.

Zhao Guo... Does Zhao Guo really exist?

He suddenly thought of the person who always smiled and did morning exercises with him. The sweat dripping from his temples under the sun seemed to be still vivid in his memory. Perhaps doing so would at least benefit him a little bit?

Fortunately, he will not appear on today's battlefield...

Zhao Zheng tried to find a reason to convince himself.

After having that terrible heart palpitation, Ji Kongqing was almost filled with all kinds of worries.

They didn't meet Muruo in Shuramen, Ji Kongqing felt that Muruo should have gone to sneak attack Jing Mingrui no matter what he thought, could it be that this ominous premonition had something to do with Muruo?

After another day of driving, Jing Mingquan finally received the news from Xinniao that Muruo indeed attacked the king's tent of the Chu army, but fortunately Jing Mingrui was unscathed, and Mu Ruo was wounded and left.

Ji Kongqing's worries slightly eased.He reckoned that Jing Mingrui might have been injured at the time, but Youshenhua's protective body should recover soon, that's why he received such news.

On the third day, Ji Kongqing and his group finally met Li Di who was going to outflank the Jing Army's rear.

After briefly exchanging information, they finally learned the details of that night from Li Di.

When he heard that the Liquan gun had broken off a small section of the blade, Jing Mingquan suddenly changed his expression: "You...what are you talking about? The black lines on the gun are gone?"

Li Di nodded.

"It seemed to fly out suddenly, and disappeared after entering His Majesty's body." Lao Gao added.

"Help me take care of Yue Ren." Jing Mingquan's face turned pale, and he rushed out quickly, "I suddenly remembered something urgent, I need to discuss it with Brother Wu first."

Ji Kongqing's heart skipped a beat, he asked a few words absent-mindedly, took a team of people and chased in the direction of the giant deer.

I have never seen such a frightened look on Ah Quan's face...

Worries suddenly surged in his heart.

It was evening when Ji Kongqing arrived at the foot of Julu City.

Looking at the battlefield full of broken limbs and wreckage, he felt that his heartbeat was extremely irregular, and the blood in his whole body seemed to be congealed.

There were still sporadic battles going on, and Ji Kongqing keenly noticed that the Chu army seemed to be fighting on two fronts, not only stuck with the Jing army, but also fighting with the Zhao army at the same time.

After driving up a small hill, Ji Kongqing looked at it for a long time, and finally found his target - Jing Mingrui's Wang Qi.

He whipped Chiji hard, shouted loudly and rushed forward with his brothers.

The closer he got to Wang Qi, the tighter his heart tightened.

Almost all of the guards under the banner were wounded, but the lethality was terrifying, bringing a rain of blood among the Jing army.Each of them seemed to be red-eyed, rushing forward without fear of life or death.

I didn't see Jing Mingrui...

A feeling of despair welled up in Ji Kongqing's heart. The main responsibility of the personal guards is to protect the emperor, but now they are rushing around like vanguards... This situation, this situation is just like...

He forced himself not to think about it.

"General Ji!" The person who saw Ji Kongqing with his sharp eyes shouted slightly crying.

"What about Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty, he... Your Majesty, he..."

"Say it quickly!" Ji Kongqing pulled him up from the opposite horse.

"Your Majesty was seriously injured and was taken away by Prince Quan."

Ji Kongqing took a few breaths, but luckily... Fortunately, Ah Quan arrived in time.

He bit his lower lip tightly, suppressed the worries in his heart, and immediately began to organize the Chu army to gather troops to launch a counterattack.

"What's going on?" Ji Kongqing finally took the time to ask about the previous situation after breaking up Zhao Jun and seizing a favorable terrain on the top of a mountain.

The Chu army raided the Jing army's camp according to the plan, and everything seemed to be going smoothly.Although the Jing army quickly began to defend and counterattack, Jing Mingrui's goal of disrupting the partial deployment of the Jing army has been achieved.

He rushed into the heart of the Jing army with the most elite troops, and the Jing army seemed to be caught off guard all of a sudden, and could not even launch an effective resistance.

However, things took a sudden turn for the worse.

Zhao Jun, who was behind the Chu army, suddenly shot a large number of arrows into the Chu army's formation.

Although the Zhao army is not strong in combat, it has a large number of people, and there are tens of thousands of archers.They were all deliberately transferred to the rear of the Chu army, and a volley came down, almost half of the unsuspecting Chu army was injured.

The original allied boy turned his gun, and the Chu army immediately fell into the situation of being attacked from both sides.

What was even more frightening was that the Jing army had already learned of the Chu army's plan of action, and they suddenly rushed towards Jing Mingrui from all directions...

"Fortunately, a general of Zhao State suddenly retreated later and made a hole in the encirclement, so His Majesty was able to lead us out of trouble. But at that time, the fight was all messed up, and His Majesty had already..." A relative Bing recounted the scene with some sobs, "Not long after he got out of trouble, His Majesty began to vomit blood, and could hardly ride a horse. I don't know where he was injured. A lot of blood oozes from the armor..."

Ji Kongqing bit his lower lip tightly. He saw that Jing Jun and Zhao Jun had merged into one group at the foot of the mountain. This was obviously a conspiracy against the State of Chu, but he didn't know why King Zhao was so stupid that he let Jing Jun fight against him. Launch such a conspiracy on the country's land...

Or is it true that the king of Zhao has already been emptied, and the Jing army has already grasped the situation in Zhao country?

How dare you hurt Ming Rui...

An unspeakable anger welled up in his heart.

After counting the number of the Chu army, Ji Kongqing found that the Chu army's casualties were not too great.

Although many people were slightly injured at the beginning, the special chain armor of the Chu army was very good at defending against bows and arrows, and not many people were killed by the arrows.In the subsequent melee, the Chu army actually had a lot of advantages, especially the lethality against the Zhao army who suddenly turned against the water was astonishing.

Now that the two armies are confronting each other, the number of the Chu army is less than half of the opponent's number, but Li Di's troops can arrive in a few hours...

Ji Kongqing pursed her lips and ordered to hold on for the time being.

What about Mingrui?Where did Ah Quan take him to heal his injuries?He was always restless.

Dongfang finally showed his fish belly——

"kill--"

Ji Kongqing shouted loudly, and rushed down immediately.

The blood-colored battle armor and red war horse pierced into the enemy's formation like a whirlwind.

Zhao Zheng's heart tightened, he was very reluctant to confront Ji Kongqing on the battlefield.

Even now, he is still holding out hope that Ji Kongqing, who was born in the royal family of Jing Kingdom, may one day stand on the same side as him on the battlefield, just like before...

He led his troops to bypass Ji Kongqing's attack direction, and instead attacked the Chu army's flank.

Lan Sijie smiled slightly. From the moment he saw that the commander was not Jing Mingrui, he seemed to see the dawn of victory...

Ji Kongqing, let me see you through the last stretch of the road!

He could hardly hold back the urge to go up to him.

I really want to tear him apart with the iron hook on my right hand...

Li Di did not disappoint Ji Kongqing, his [-] fresh troops suddenly appeared from the enemy's rear, and immediately decided the outcome of this battle.

The 30 attacking Jing army left more than 3000 corpses, and only [-] people fled back to Jing country to protect the coach whose left eye was severely injured by Ji Kongqing's arrow.

Most of the 15 Zhao troops were killed or injured. Although they did not want to accept their surrender, the Chu army finally spared the lives of the rest.

Li Di, who led the army into Zhao's palace, found that Zhao Wang had already been poisoned in his bedroom, and his body had already begun to rot.

The mansion of Zhao Xin, the Marquis of Dingxiang, suddenly caught fire. The fire burned for a day and a night, and burned down the continuous and magnificent abode, and no one escaped from the mansion.

The ministers of Zhao Guo found "evidence" that Zhao Xin was actually a spy of Jing Guo, who had sneaked into Zhao Guo for 30 years.He deceived King Zhao, usurped the power of Zhao State, and finally poisoned King Zhao.According to the investigation, Zhao Xin provoked the civil strife in Julu before, but after the incident was revealed, he blamed others, and at the same time, the grievances of General Gu Lian were cleared.

The ministers elected Meng Ben, the general who had released Jing Mingrui on the battlefield, as a representative, praying to surrender to Chu State from then on, hoping to be forgiven by His Majesty Chu Emperor.

Jing Mingquan accepted Zhao Guo's jade seal and surrender form instead of his elder brother.

However, all of this is not what Ji Kongqing cares about——

"You showed me this just to tell me that he is dead?" Looking at the familiar pair of blood-stained black armor, Ji Kongqing suddenly smiled, "Aquan, are you kidding me? You Do you understand the truth that you need to see people when you live, and you need to see corpses when you die?"

"Brother Ji...Brother Ji..." Jing Mingquan said with pain on his face, "It was already too late when I arrived, Fifth Brother... Fifth Brother, he couldn't hold on at all, although I tried my best to stabilize his body with internal force, but It's too late!"

"Haha... Then what are you talking about about his corpse?" Ji Kongqing seemed to hear some funny joke, laughing until tears flowed out.

"Fifth Brother's body has completely collapsed, there will be no so-called corpses at all!"

Ji Kongqing opened his eyes wide.