Ten thousand people think gloom is reborn

The news struck me like thunder after the rain.Although I know that the crown prince is not the emperor's son, I don't know the secret.

King Dongxuan probably also saw my astonishment, and realized that I didn't know, he said in a deep voice: "It seems that you don't know, and you don't know who passed it on, but it's good for us, the new emperor ascends the throne, The most important thing is to stabilize the hearts of the people. We will win this battle."

In the early winter of the 28th calendar year, King Dongxuan led the three armies to start the battle in Pingcheng, holding a jade seal, named Qingjun side, mountains and rivers, thousands of armies fighting, white knives rolling, mourning everywhere, bloody knives breaking and corpses, for as long as three months.

"General! Urgent report!"

A loud shout came from outside the tent. I was discussing with everyone at the table what to do next. When I heard the sound, I quickly stood up and said, "Come in!"

The person who came was a soldier specialized in delivering letters. He strode into the tent, knelt on the ground with a face full of joy, and offered the letter to me with both hands, "General, this is the good news from King Dongxuan."

Before I had time to say anything, I quickly snatched the letter from his hand. After skimming through it, I couldn't help laughing, "Great, Fuyang County has finally taken it."

Since he decided to raise troops, King Dongxuan sent troops from three routes, one led by Jiang Zhao, the other led by him himself, and the third led by two other vassal kings.

I went with Jiang Zhao.

During these three months of hard fighting, I ate and slept with the soldiers, and it was the first time I witnessed the cruelty of war with my own eyes.The colleague who was drinking and eating meat in front of me one day may become a headless corpse in the sand the next day.

This battle was bitter, but fortunately there was a turning point.

Fuyang County is the nearest town to the capital. The surrender of Fuyang County means that we are already approaching the capital.

"Gentlemen, Fuyang County has been captured by us!" As soon as I said this, the people next to me were cheered up, and what's more, they shed tears.

I lifted up the soldier carrying the message, and said to Niu Xi next to me, "Go and see when General Jiang Zhao and Song Nan will come back, and tell them the news as soon as possible."

Our side fought very hard, and the military rations delivered a few days ago were forcibly intercepted by the people of the court, so Jiang Zhao and Song Nan had to risk their lives and brought a group of elite soldiers to retaliate against the court's military rations.

Unexpectedly, today is still double happiness, Jiang Zhao and Song Nan snatched back more military rations than we lost before.

That night, all of us breathed a sigh of relief, and I couldn't help but sit on the sand dunes and drink in the moonlight, watching the people not far away laughing and dancing around the bonfire.

Three months ago, I would never have imagined that I would still live this kind of life, but to be honest, I don’t want to live this kind of life again, to be exact, I don’t want to see them live like this.

War has never been a good thing for the common people.

I drank all the wine in the flagon, and I was a little drunk, so I simply lay on the sand dunes, listening to the singing from the campfire.

I don't know how Concubine Zhuang and the Emperor are doing now, especially Concubine Zhuang, it's not easy to send messages while marching and fighting, and I haven't received a letter from her for almost a month.

In the last letter, she said she was worried about me.

So do I.

Suddenly someone called me from a distance, "General, come and play with me."

Others came up to me together and asked me to play with them.I couldn't resist my kindness, so I had to sit by the campfire too.

"The general is an elegant person, unlike us rough people. When we sing, we just shout at the top of our voices. Please sing us a song, general." Everyone started booing, and even clapped their hands together, calling my name together.

I got a little drunk, took a deep breath, and spit out the word "good".

I didn't sing, but found a leaf.Before putting it down, I would never play the song with leaves in front of so many people.

The clear brilliance of water enveloped this seemingly peaceful land, and the coldness between breaths was dissipated by the bonfire and the warmth of the heart. I looked into the distance drunkenly, until I found out that the song I was playing was taught by Lin Chongtan .

Lin Chongtan is proficient in the six arts. The first time I saw someone who could play music with leaves was from him.

At that time, I was not in Taixue, but in the Lin family in Gusu.The master always said how excellent Lin Chongtan was, and how stupid I was.I was always a little unconvinced, thinking that Lin Chongtan was smarter than me because he had studied a few years longer than me.

So one time, I sneaked to Lin Chongtan's yard to see how he usually studies.

No one knew that there was a dog hole at the bottom of the wall in his yard. I groaned and crawled into the dog hole. Just as I was about to find Lin Chongtan, I heard a group of people calling the second young master, which scared me back to the dog hole. hole.

When the sound was far away, I hesitated for a while, thinking that I should go back and forget it.If someone finds me climbing a dog hole, they will definitely say that I have a rustic spirit.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of someone playing a song.I had never heard that song before, and I thought it sounded good, so I couldn't help crawling back to Lin Chongtan's yard following the sound of the song.

This time, I saw Lin Chongtan without looking for him.

He even climbed up the tree and sat on the branch, with two slender legs hanging down from the hem of his clothes.The sun shines through the leaves and falls on Lin Chongtan. He held the leaves with his fingers and blew on them while meeting my eyes unexpectedly.

The moment we met, both he and I froze for a moment.

Lin Chongtan blinked, put down the leaf in his hand, and asked me warmly, "Did Xiaodi come to look for me?"

At that time, Lin Chongtan and I were both 13 years old.

I drill dog holes, he climbs trees.

"You didn't see me, and I didn't see you either. You, you don't want to tell my mother and them about my going through a dog hole." I threatened Lin Chongtan.

In order to scare him, I raised my fist deliberately, but my voice was stern, "Otherwise...otherwise I will say that you skipped class to climb trees here and play with dirty leaves."

He shouldn't think that I didn't see him sneaking away the leaf in his hand.

Lin Chongtan blinked again, then nodded for a moment, "Okay, I won't say anything."

I saw that the threat was successful, so I left with a guilty conscience.

Later, my relationship with him deteriorated further, and even if we met in the mansion, we were like strangers.Neither of us mentioned that day until we were fast.

On a summer afternoon, Lin Chongtan and I were lying on the bamboo mat, and when we knew it, we were screaming on the tree outside the window.It was noisy and stuffy, and I was sweating all over my body, but he still stuck to me.I didn't dare to make too much noise, for fear of being overheard by Bai Chi and Qing Qiu outside, so I could only kick him, hit him, and bite him with small movements.

"It's so hot!" I gripped Lin Chongtan's ear and complained.

Lin Chongtan was so tortured by me that he had no choice but to let go of me.I was still hot, so I fanned myself wildly with a fan, and after a while I got up to drink an iced drink.

Just after taking two sips, I heard music.Looking back, I saw Lin Chongtan took the leaves from the small green plant and put it between his lips.

He was casually wearing a robe, his brows and eyes were lazy, not like the old Lin Chongtan.I stared at him blankly, and he noticed my gaze, and he took me into his arms casually.

"Do you want me to teach you? This is a quick learning." Lin Chongtan said softly.

I forgot the heat for a moment and just nodded.

At this time, I always wanted to learn more about Lin Chongtan. I envied him, envied him, and wanted to be him, but I didn’t know that there was always only one Lin Chongtan in the world.

The singing stopped suddenly, and many people shouted.

"General, why don't you blow it?"

"General, this is the first time I've heard such a beautiful song."

"General..."

I threw the leaf in my hand on the ground, and waved my hand again, "I... I'm drunk and dizzy, I'll go back to sleep first, you guys keep playing."

I shouldn't think about Lin Chongtan anymore, I should forget anything about him.He and I are clean, and all kindness and resentment, love and hatred should be completely dissipated.

Back in the tent, I fell into bed and fell asleep after taking a full bath. Cai Weng's face suddenly appeared in front of me at close range, and I blinked slowly, "Huh?"

Cai Weng said something to me, but I couldn't hear it clearly. I was drunk and fell asleep, as if I heard it say I was sweet again.

I don't smell good, but why is the Gu worm behind me not peaceful tonight.

I seemed to be dreaming, but not dreaming.

The next day, I was hungover, and the bad news came unexpectedly.

King Dongxuan fell for it, and Fuyang County was a false surrender.Not long after the good news came out, King Dongxuan's men were ambushed. Even King Dongxuan was seriously injured and retreated to Fuyang County. Our people also lost a lot.

After news of King Dongxuan's injury reached us, Jiang Zhao and I had a whole day's meeting, and finally decided that our army must attack the capital as soon as possible.If King Dongxuan is injured, the imperial court will definitely find a way to counterattack. If the attack is successful, our chances of winning will become slim.

After another month of fierce fighting, we finally reached Shixi, another town close to the capital.Shixi is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the difficulty of conquering it is no less than that of Fuyang County, especially the general who sits in the town is the famous and mighty general Ping.

It was the first time I spent the New Year in the wild, and it was very cold, not to mention me. Although most of the soldiers under my command were young and strong, it was difficult for them to persist under the severe cold for days.

But the turning point came quietly, the other two feudal lords marched northward, seeing that the Three Route Army was about to besiege the capital, the mighty general Ping had to secretly leave Shixi, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, to force the two feudal lords back soldiers.

It stands to reason that if he left, we would not be able to capture Shixi smoothly and quickly, especially in this extreme weather.

I guess not only I didn't expect it, but the mighty general also didn't expect that he left Shi Xi to his son to guard him, and his son was kidnapped by Yue Feiguang's people when he turned his head.

Yue Feiguang rebelled, and led his men to open the city gate swaggeringly, saying that he was willing to surrender to me.He is afraid that if I don't believe it, he will order his own people to tie his own hands.As for the son of the mighty general, he was tied into a rice dumpling, cursing and cursing Yue Feiguang as a traitor along the way.

Yue Feiguang snorted and laughed, "A traitor? The one who follows Jingli is the one who is a traitor. He is not even His Majesty's child."

He still called my father His Majesty, and he didn't recognize the prince.

With the lessons learned from Fuyang County, we are much more cautious this time.After locking up Yue Feiguang and other important soldiers, we led our troops into Shixi.

When entering the city, Song Nan's knife was on the neck of the mighty general's son. As long as someone lay in ambush, Song Nan would let the mighty general's son's blood splash on the spot.

Everything is normal.

Yue Feiguang really brought people down.

My people quickly guarded the important checkpoints of Shixi's four city gates. After entering the city, I realized that even if Yue Fei's light did not fall, Shixi would not be able to last long.

There are less than a thousand soldiers guarding Shixi, and the imperial court has long been strong, otherwise there would not be only this few people.

Half a month later, the five-month-long battle finally came to an end, and the crown prince surrendered.

He had to surrender because he had fewer and fewer people under him, and those who were loyal to him later betrayed him.Those people had heard that he was not of royal blood, and they hoped that the crown prince would confess his relationship with the emperor by dripping blood to prove his innocence, but the crown prince still refused, so the rumors became even worse.

I saw the prince again after five months. To be precise, I shouldn’t call him a prince now, but he doesn’t have a jade seal in his hand, so he can’t be regarded as an emperor.

The prince is wearing a dragon robe and sitting alone on the dragon chair.When he saw me coming in, he drew his lower lip slowly on his soft and beautiful face, "Brother, you are finally here."

I didn't answer, but looked up at him.

I haven't seen him for five months, the prince hasn't changed much, not even the bruises in front of his eyes, but his face is radiant, just like the first time I saw him.

At that time, those princes, grandchildren and relatives all called him the third master, and life and death depended entirely on his will.He just lifted his eyelids lazily, which can make people feel frightened.

But today is not what it used to be.

Seeing that I was silent, the prince stroked the carved dragon head on the armrest of the dragon chair with his fingers, "Are you speechless now?"

"Yes, I want to ask where is your father? Where is the national teacher? And Chang Wang." As soon as I said this, the prince laughed out loud.

With a smile on his phoenix eyes, his eyes became more and more radiant, "The first thing you said when you saw me was that you were asking someone else, after all, you are an unfamiliar raccoon slave."