Three anecdotes

After the catastrophe, it is subjugation.

It's not just people's hearts that are subdued, but also fear.

At the moment when the Phoenix Mountain landslide, Cardinal Jin stood on the high observation deck, and he could clearly feel the deathly silence and the imminent panic below.

Cardinal Jin went to 27 cities on the 27th. The victory came too easily, and the respect will be much less.The surrendered general is called the Rebel Army, and they are actually waiting and watching—either pushing the boat with the current, or pretending to be a snake, or having no way to retreat, 3 horses, who really surrendered, except for the people of the four counties, who else?But now, Cardinal Jin clearly felt the fear in their restless silence.

They were afraid of him—there were many people who were afraid of him. When he pierced the girl's butterfly bone with a scimitar, when he burned Zhichen's cochlea with coals, he didn't even have to do anything, just sit in the middle of the business. When Bute looked at the steps below from his dragon seat and smiled—but among those fears, there was more disdain than fear.

Now, it is a servant with no ambition.

As for the rebels, they were really afraid. What they were afraid of was not death, but absolute power—a man who could manipulate the situation, strategizing, and 40 people buried tens of thousands of lives.

They followed him, tested him, even mocked him, watched him look at the stars and clouds and the moon, and occasionally teased him for being miserable, and even a little bit of sympathy was obscene.What's more, trapped in Phoenix Mountain, they watch the fire from the other side, what can you do if the mountain doesn't fall--if the mountain doesn't retreat, he will move the mountain!It turned out that on this man's steep spine stood a cruelty that could change the color of the situation.

Because of cruelty, so proud, because of pride, so silent.

He didn't show the mountain or dew the water, and he destroyed a city after eating a meal of mutton.Turning your hands to cover the clouds and rain, nothing more.

Cardinal Jin's gaze was still far away, he didn't look at it, he didn't look at Xuanshang's excitement, and he didn't look at the trembling surrender of the rebel army, he just said five words, "Detour to Chanzhou, kill!"

"Yes!"

When one person speaks, all voices gather, and all living beings gather.

Yu Tongxiang looked at Zhao Zhongping, "Cardinal Jin will not let us go."

Zhao Zhongping nodded, "This man is cruel and merciless, and he came here with momentum, and he will not give up easily."

Yu Tongxiang looked back at the pale-faced victims. He has already retreated here, do he still want to escape?

Zhao Zhongping clenched his fists, wanting to say, fight!Wherever you can see, there are all wounded soldiers.

They are so tired.Tired enough to escape with a life, exhausted.There is no food, no water, no weapons, looking around, it is desolate.How to fight?Zhao Zhongping kept turning his head, searching desperately, looking for his judge, his staff, and even domestic slaves. He looked all over the wilderness, but he couldn't find any.

Finally, he slumped on the ground dejectedly, "We have nothing."

Yu Tongxiang looked at the remaining two hundred soldiers, including the emperor's imperial guards, the old ministers of the Yu family, and the imperial troops transferred by Fengxing. When they were in Jing'an, each of them could count as ten, and now they still hold the sword in their hands. ——Those who can survive are heroes, and those who can survive are not afraid of death!

Yu Tongxiang looked into their bloodshot eyes, and there were two words written in each of them - revenge.It's just that he has lost more than 800 brothers, and he can't lose them too. "Everyone, sit down and rest—"

One of them boldly looked at Yu Tongxiang, "Major General, we should find a water source."

Yu Tongxiang smiled bitterly, "Sit down and save some energy. Soon, water and food will be here."

"The major general wants to surrender!" The person who spoke was Xue Bing, a general banner of the Luan Guards. After all, he was a hot-blooded man. The brothers who get along day and night, could it be that they are going to demote that courtier!

His voice was so loud that even the escaped civilians looked back, Zhao Zhongping also looked at Yu Tongxiang, and Yu Tongxiang only felt that his eyes were burning, like stabbing his flesh with a knife. He said, "There are still a thousand people here, exhausted, and there are still women and children!"

Xue Bing drew his saber, and the embroidered gold saber came out of its sheath. His face was so bright that he slashed off the floating mud on his shoulder, and said only four words, "I would rather die than be humiliated!"

Yu Tongxiang stood up suddenly, drew his knife as well, and laid it across his neck.

All around, there was the sound of a knife being drawn.

Xue Bing widened his bloodshot eyes, "You spineless wretch!"

Yu Tongxiang withdrew the knife, and the tip of the knife slid slowly past pairs of numb eyes, "Did you see that? These are all innocent people! We are soldiers, and as long as they have a life, we will protect them." If we live, we can’t die! You, me, and everyone here can’t die! We lost our soft food, our water, our parents, our sisters, and our homes to survive the mud flow , not to die!"

His words touched many people. Those soldiers who stood among the basils with empty blood began to sheath their knives and slowly sat down.

Yu Tongxiang looked at Xue Bing, his eyes were calm and unwavering, "Live, even if you live, you have to live, whether you obey me or not, as long as I am still the commander of the army, as long as the chess in my hand has not fallen, protect our son!" People, our sons and daughters, live, this is a military order!"

Cardinal Jin went out in person, leading the Yijun and Xueyiwei. He needed this big victory to consolidate his position, but he couldn't hand over his back to someone with rebellious bones.Cardinal Jin is not in a hurry because he has already won and won thoroughly.

Three thousand generals, five hundred snow clothes, dragging water weapons, detoured quickly.

The mudslide destroyed a city and also destroyed the original road. Cardinal Jin had no choice but to lead people to take the road from the back. The well-trained elite rushed forward with the victor's prestige. They traveled all night and finally saw the morning glow.

Marching late at night with a large amount of food and luggage, no one complained.

Dawn breaks, the sun rises, and the morning glow makes the faces of the victims more and more pale. Everyone is swallowing, too thirsty.

Yu Tongxiang ordered to form an array and use his soldiers as a human wall to guard the people who had escaped from death.The mudslide just now was so terrifying that even if life and death were separated for a moment, the people felt as if it was a dream.Only when the gradually gathering crowd at the rear enclosed them in a semicircular arc, until the enemies in battle armor held guns, and until Yu Tongxiang stood up with a knife in his hand, did they really realize that they were surrounded.

The front is the barrier lake, there is no way to retreat, and the rear is the enemy.They saw excitement in the eyes of the enemy.

Cardinal Jin stood upright in the team that divided the tide, and Yu Tongxiang held up his sword. The confrontational two sides were too close, so close that they could see the shadows cast by the rays of the sun on the opposite people.

The people of Chanzhou looked at Cardinal Jin's army as if they were walking on blood, while the rebels and Xueyi looked at the victims as if they were soaked in blood.

Yu Tongxiang, Cardinal Jin, looked at each other across the array.

Cardinal Jin looked up at the sky, for some reason, when he just raised his head, everyone here fought a cold war, no matter the enemy or us.

It was Yu Tongxiang who spoke first, "What advice does your son have?"

Cardinal Jin's voice was not loud, but full of internal energy, enough for the victims lying on the slope to hear clearly, "It will rain soon, and this new lake will definitely burst."

Yu Tongxiang also looked at the sky and remained silent.

The victims were overwhelmed, and those who escaped were farmers with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky. They were all energetic young people. Of course they knew that the sunset glow travels thousands of miles without going out in the morning glow.At this time, the sun was shining, and Zhao Zhongping even heard their breathing among the bushes.

Cardinal Jin raised his hand, and snow-clothed guards on both sides of the wild goose wings opened a path, "The tyrant has no way, and the sky is flooded. Everyone has a promising body, why don't you join the rebel army as soon as possible?"

Yu Tongxiang looked at the people in his team looking at each other, raised his eyebrows and sneered, "Cardinal Jin, you used gunpowder to trigger mountain torrents and swallow Chanzhou with mud, killing many innocent people in vain. You are the deep-rooted enemy of Chanzhou, how can you be brought down?"

Cardinal Jin did not answer, but ordered someone to set up a pot to cook the corn.

Yu Tongxiang had heard long ago that he boiled Sophora japonica and Liu Chengchou's internal and external cooperation, and now seeing him repeating his old tricks, he couldn't help sneering, "Cardinal Jin, why are you pretending, our fathers, old folks, didn't they die in your hands?"

Cardinal Jin didn't even look at him, he just looked at the sky quietly, waiting for the smell of corn to come out.

The rebels shouted cleverly, "Come here, come to this slope, there will be something to eat."

Yu Tongxiang remained unmoved.

Surrounded by soldiers, the victims had no choice but to swallow their saliva.

There was humanity in the rebel army, "So what if you surrender, I join the rebel army to fight against the tyrant, doing justice for the heavens!"

After all, the Forbidden Army was actually Shang Chengbi's personal soldiers, and when they heard the Rebel Army blatantly shouting treason and injustice, they immediately shouted and cursed.

The sweet aroma of corn wafted into the confrontation between the traitor and the tyrant. Cardinal Jin waited for the pot to boil, nodded, and asked Xueyi's leader, Wang Hui, to bring a cart of water and a pot of corn to the place.

The guards on the opposite side cursed even louder, "How many people have you killed, are you here to buy people's hearts now?"

Cardinal Jin said nothing, just looked at Yu Tongxiang.

Yu Tongxiang had already seen the anticipation on the faces of the victims, and he knew that this match was lost before he even made a move.

He raised the knife to his chest, "What do you want?"

Cardinal Jin finally said, "I want you to take back what you said."

Yu Tongxiang raised his saber, "What are you talking about?"

Cardinal Jin looked around at the victims of the disaster, "The tyrant has no way, and only the heavens will punish him. I led the army here, only to relieve the people of the people from their upside down."

Yu Tongxiang sneered, Cardinal Jin pointed to the big pot of corn, "I'm here for disaster relief, if you believe me, come and move it away, if you don't believe me—" He looked at the sky again, "I'll wait for you for an hour, and the sky will only wait for you An hour." After he finished this sentence, he smiled again, "You should understand now that I am the sky."

Yu Tongxiang was stunned, but immediately felt panic and fear among the people here. He raised his knife again and looked at Cardinal Jin in front of him. This man was so thin, so thin, yet so tenacious and powerful.In the battle six years ago, I heard that he galloped from Kunlun Mountain in the starry night, and he did not get off his saddle for nine days and nine nights. What he got was the news of the surrender of the King of Chu.At that time, as the son of the king of Chu, he untied his sword, took off his shoes, tied his hair and surrendered.Afterwards, everything about this young master of Chonghua was just like what was written in the storybook, the crown of the harem, the beauty of the country and the city.When he was lying under Shang Chengbi's body, when he stirred up the rain and clouds in the court, he acted like a demon concubine, so that people really forgot the word Chonghua.Yu's five generations of soldiers and horses, Yu Tongxiang's family has a long history of learning, after learning from Shang Quhan, he has a lot of experience in the formation of troops, and now he only sees the appearance of the Xuanpao army in order, like arms and fingers, and he knows that it was not achieved overnight. It turned out that my great-grandfather never misunderstood that Cardinal Jin was by no means the generation of money-losers and luxuries. If I had to say it, it could only be to hide my strength and bide my time, to try my best, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years.

Yu Tongxiang waved his hand, and eight members of the pro-army stepped forward. Zhao Zhongping saw that these people were actually walking towards Cardinal Jin, so he couldn't help shouting, "Young General, be careful of deceit."

Yu Tongxiang laughed, "Fraud? At this moment and in this situation, are we still afraid of fraud?" Here they are remnants of soldiers, poor men and horses, while others are strong generals, eager to try.If Cardinal Jin wanted to kill someone, he couldn't commit fraud.

Xuanpao and Yijun watched as someone on the opposite side removed the food they had laboriously transported in the starry night, and they hadn't tasted the fragrance of those large pots of corn yet.However, as soon as the mountain torrent escaped, Cardinal Jin's prestige increased greatly, and no one dared to speak out in front of him.

The food was brought over, but no one dared to move it.

Yu Tongxiang glanced at Cardinal Jin, Cardinal Jin nodded, and Yu Tongxiang said, "I'll eat first." He pierced a corn with a horizontal knife, and twisted a flower with a movement of his wrist, and the corn kernels fell out Falling, he stretched out his left hand, and it all fell on his palm.

Yu Tongxiang didn't even look at it, he poured it into his mouth and ate it, the palate was so hot that the skin peeled off.

As soon as he sent his arm, half a corn that had been shaved neatly like the tooth pitch was waved to Zhao Zhongping. Zhao Zhongping took the corn and held it in his hand. His hands were not afraid of being scalded, so he stood up straight and said loudly, "Are we still afraid of death at this point?"

He picked up the corn and put it in his mouth. At this time, Yu Tongxiang had already taken another sip of water and ate a piece of dry food.

After a life-saving escape, everyone was already hungry. Seeing that Yu Tongxiang and Zhao Zhongping had nothing to eat, they all swallowed their saliva and looked eagerly at the corn, dry food, and clean water, which was equivalent to Tongxiang's order.

Yu Tongxiang looked at Cardinal Jin, "What do you want?"

Cardinal Jin's eyes fell on the food, "Isn't it too late to ask the conditions now?"

Yu Tongxiang said, "The best is one death, and the worst is one death. What's the difference between sooner or later?"

Cardinal Jin glanced at him, his face was still very young, full of vigor, because he had made up his mind long ago to see death as home, and there was an awe-inspiring demeanor, Cardinal Jin sighed, "It's a pity that Shang Quhan will teach his disciples as expected."

At this moment, naturally no one would ask him what was the pity. Cardinal Jin sighed and immediately said, "Today evening, there must be heavy rain. Below Chanzhou is Yanzhou, which is rich in fertile fields and guarded by Jingkang. Jingkang is lonely and strong. He is not a person who fled the battle. It is just that the barrier lake broke through in an instant, and it is beyond human power to resist. You go to persuade him, and then withdraw from the city. Don't ruin the lives of the people in the city for his mere reputation. He is Your uncle recommended it, and he should be able to listen to your words."

Before Yu Tongxiang could open his mouth, Zhao Zhongping's blood surged with sarcasm, "Unexpectedly, Mr. Jin is still a person who sympathizes with the common people." Chanzhou was smoked in a short while, tens of thousands of people died, hundreds of years His home was destroyed, and he had more than one word of hatred for Cardinal Jin.

But Cardinal Jin didn't take him seriously at all, he just looked at Yu Tongxiang, "You should know that even if Jingkang has two points of ability, if there is a tough fight, he will just seek his own death."

Yu Tongxiang looked at him, "Why do you want to save Yunzhou?"

Cardinal Jin stood upright, proud and arrogant, "I have planned for many years, and I want to raise an army. What I want is the whole country. In the future, the king will rule the world, my country will be under my feet, and my people will be all around me. Don't you want Shall I start over again? If I don’t have the ability to care for the world and cherish the common people, what use is it for me to want the world?”