Selfishness

The weather is fine today, I am walking alone in the back mountain.Tired, lying on Xunfeng to rest, is also very pleasant.But this leisure time is short, and An Feng came to find him not long after.

"Little master, Lord Xiao is here." An Feng walked up to me and whispered in his ear, "She said she wanted to see you."

"Her?" I was a little surprised, because Xiao Guo was quite peaceful recently.The year-long war with Yuan State finally came to a truce, and Xiao State also had a chance to breathe.At this time Xiao Han came to the door, and he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

"She said she wants to see you. From An Feng's point of view, she seems very anxious." An Feng stood aside, frowning and said, "The Xiao Kingdom has not had any wars with the Yuan Kingdom recently, but the Nan Clan is indeed at war. She came Hucheng must be begging the master to fight against the Nan tribe!"

"General An's growth has made me very pleased." I joked with a smile.This made An Feng blushed instantly, and after recovering from a dry cough, he said: "An Feng is the deputy general of the young master, so of course he has to think about this."

Seeing the relieved nod, An Feng smiled proudly.But the smile was fleeting, and he frowned and said: "An Feng thinks, it's better not to see the little master. The survival of the Xiao country has nothing to do with us."

It was still smiling just now, but now it is vicious.As An Feng spoke, his expression became more ferocious.I know that An Feng just remembered that past event, so he was very angry with Xiao Han.

"Not too strange, let's go."

Regardless of An Feng's objection, I decided to meet Xiao Han, which made him very angry.The originally leisurely afternoon could only be spent in Anfeng's nagging.

"Little master! Don't go! An Feng, go and send him away." They had already entered Muxuan Pavilion, and An Feng did not give up lobbying.

"It's all here, how can there be any reason to go back?" I smiled, and ignored his obstruction, and walked towards the private room where Xiao Han was.

"Young General." As soon as I walked in, Xiao Han raised his head and greeted me with a smile on his face.

An Feng behind him snorted softly and turned his head away.This move made Xiao Han slightly frown.

"Anfeng, wait for me outside." After speaking, I closed the door, ignoring Anfeng's worries.

Only me and Xiao Han were left in the room.We sat opposite each other, she had a smile on her face, and I, with a masked face, was endlessly mocking.

"Master Xiao sees me like this, what's the matter?" I played with the teacup, but didn't look at her.

"Xiaomo..." She sighed softly and said, "Why are you so unfamiliar? Are you still blaming me for Beiluo's affairs?"

"I understand Lord Xiao, so I don't blame you." I put down the teacup and looked at her and said, "Speak directly if you have something to say."

Maybe my attitude was too cold, which made her frown a little dissatisfied.Immediately, she said with a wry smile: "I would like to invite you to the Youguan. The Nan tribe has been restless recently, and Yuan Ming is also eyeing it. I am afraid that when I deal with the Yuan Kingdom, the old pass of the Jin Kingdom will fall again. I hope the major general can do it. With a helping hand, don't let that Youguan fall into the hands of the Nanzu again."

"Hey." I chuckled softly, "What Xiao Guozhu said is really watertight. Border of Jin Kingdom? Is there such a place in this world? It is the border of your Xiao Kingdom, not Jin Kingdom and even less my Zhonghu City."

Facing my sarcastic words, Xiao Han seemed a little unbelievable.Her eyes flickered in surprise for a moment, and then she said with a cold face: "The major general has kept his filial piety for the old lord of the Kingdom of Jin, and morally speaking, it is normal to guard his old pass.

"Are you threatening me?" I sneered, "I, Mo Xu, are just a pawn to you, right? If you don't listen, you will be destroyed?"

She was taken aback, sighed, calmed down and said, "Xiao Mo, I sincerely beg you for help. Now that the country of Xiao is in danger, if it really suffers from the enemy, the people of our country will definitely be displaced."

"Xiao Han." I said softly, "What am I to you?"

"I..." Xiao Han opened his mouth, biting his lip and looking at me without saying anything.

"Your people are in danger, so you come to me to borrow troops? Then after my Mohist army is killed or wounded, who do I go to? Your people are important, but my Mohist army is not important?" I said with a soft snort in frustration , "For your country, I can sacrifice at will, can't I?"

"No!" Xiao Han roared, and the teacup in his hand shattered into pieces.

"Really?" I said with a sneer, "Aren't you here to sacrifice me?"

Xiao Han gritted his teeth, the fragments of the teacup made her bleed profusely.Seeing her holding back her anger, I smiled and walked over.She watched blankly as I took her hand, took out the fragments, and then wiped the wound on her hand with a handkerchief.When he came back to his senses, Xiao Han grabbed me violently, held my hand tightly and said, "I really didn't mean that!"

Through the mask, I looked directly into her eyes.After a long time, I hooked the corner of my mouth and said, "I can lend you troops, only 500 people."

Xiao Han laughed at himself and nodded in agreement.But she held my hand tightly and didn't let go.

"Master Xiao, there are so many people, you should leave early." I took out my hand and only kept the handkerchief in her palm.

Xiao Han saw that I was about to get up and leave, he grabbed me in a panic and said, "Little Mo, I really like you, it has nothing to do with everything in Zhonghu City. request."

"Is there any difference?" I sneered, "The little Mo you are talking about is the same person as the major general of Zhonghu City, and the person you want to use is the same person."

Xiao Han was speechless and lowered his head in frustration.I looked at her with some anticipation in my heart—looking forward to the day when she would know that I was the student of Mo.

I agreed to lend troops to Xiao Han, but An Feng first objected.He didn't want to lead soldiers to the secluded pass without saying anything, and even got into a temper with me, hiding in the house and refusing to come out, making me dumbfounded.

I don't have time to coax An Feng's petty temper, because there are still many troubles in deploying troops.

After Zhonghu City got on the right track, we reduced a lot of troops. After all, maintaining the army is also a huge expense.Excluding the Mohist army who volunteered for Yao Mi, there are roughly 2000 troops in Zhonghu City.There are three gates in Zhonghu City, and each gate consists of a team of Mohist troops as elite soldiers, plus a team of defenders, totaling more than 500 people.The city is guarded by a hundred-man city guard, while the remaining Mohist army guards the Mofu.If he wanted to lend troops to Xiao Han, he could only send troops from the main city.Although there has been no war in Zhonghu City for a long time, the heart of defense cannot be lost. I really dare not adjust the military strength of Sanguan.In the end, I dispatched [-] people from the main city to Youguan, led by Anfeng.

Before leaving, An Feng knelt down in front of me angrily and said: "Little master! You kill An Feng! An Feng will not lead the army to save that bastard!"

"Bastard!" I slammed my palm on the table and said, "Military orders are like a mountain! You can't control your temper!"

"Little master! How can we help her!" An Feng roared with red eyes, "She treats little master like that, how can I, An Feng, save her!"

"Who wants you to save her! I want you to guard the secluded pass! To protect the old pass of the Jin Kingdom!" I pointed at An Feng and said angrily, "My Mo family is an old official of the Jin Kingdom! It is only natural to protect the homeland! Nonsense! Just get out of my Mo family!"

"Little master..." An Feng burst into tears when he heard me say that he should be expelled from the Mo family.

"Why are you crying! When did my Mohist soldiers ever have cowards! Not to mention deserters who ran away!" I threw the tea cup out and said, "Go to Youguan immediately! If Youguan falls! You can come and see !"

"My little master..." An Feng wiped his tears and said, "I just don't want to..."

Seeing An Feng standing up straight and kneeling on the ground wiping away tears, I sighed and said, "Youguan is a promise made by my Mohist family. I can't break my promise. I will deal with my personal grievances with her."

"Little master..."

"Okay." I waved my hand and said, "This secluded pass trip, just treat it as my assessment of you, don't let me down."

"No!" An Feng said firmly with red eyes, "An Feng will never disgrace the reputation of the Mohist family!"

I nodded and said, "But if there is any trouble, please notify me immediately! I don't want my favorite lieutenant to die for that person for nothing."

An Feng wiped away the tears that kept falling, bit his lip and kept nodding.Seeing this, I smiled and helped him up.That night, I held a big banquet to see off the soldiers who went there.

The next day, I sent them all the way to the border before saying goodbye to Anfeng and the others.Looking at the army going away, I felt a little bit reluctant.Thinking about how many people can come back under the war?

"Go back." Su Yun said as she rode close to me.

"Hey, the Nan Clan is coming in menacingly, I'm really afraid..."

"Bah, bah, don't be unlucky!" Su Yun patted me on the back and said, "An Feng is no longer that crying boy, he can take care of himself, don't worry too much. In a few days, I will also go to the border to investigate Down."

I looked at the direction they were leaving, and sighed: "After a while, you will go to Dongguan and take three hundred soldiers disguised as merchants to the border. After that, you will fill the vacancy by changing defenses, and replace some of the Mohist army in the city to guard the border. .”

"You are crazy!" Su Yun yelled, "There are only more than 300 people in Dongguan. If you change it, at most a hundred people will guard it! Not only that, there will be no soldiers in this city!"

"Why not? Don't you still have a hundred-man army and Eagle Hall?"

"There are too many people in Zhonghu City, and the emptiness in the city will definitely be leaked! By then, many people will definitely come to investigate the whereabouts of the troops!"

I smiled and said, "So what? First, there are few battles in Zhonghu City, and the affairs in the city can be handled by the Eagle Hall and a hundred-man army. Second, to enter Zhonghu City, you have to go through three passes, and there are not many troops there. Changes. As for the whereabouts of the army, it is said that the defenders of Shuilibao went to practice. This matter should be told to Chen Hui in advance."

"You! You are really crazy! What's the point of doing this!"

I stared at the direction Anfeng left and said: "Intuition. I always feel that things in Youguan are not easy, so we should prepare in advance. Maybe I have to go to Youguan at that time."

"What kind of intuition!" Su Yun rubbed her head, and said, "You broke Beiluo back then, and this incident made the Nan people piss in fright. Now that the Mohist army is guarding the pass, they will definitely be scrupulous!"

"Scruples can't overcome greed." I sighed, "The Northern people hate me to the core. If they are the forwards, then the offensive must not be weak."

After Su Yun took a deep look at me, she flicked her whip and hurried back to Zhonghu City.And I finally glanced at the direction of Youguan, turned around and rode Xunfeng back to the city slowly.

Ten days later, we discussed it with Chen Hui.We disguised some Shengguo soldiers in Shuilibao as Mohist soldiers.Afterwards, Su Yun arranged for [-] soldiers to disguise themselves as businessmen and drive them to Youguan via the border of Yuan Kingdom.And three months later, Anfeng's military report came, saying that the Southern Clan's offensive was too fierce and that Youguan was in a hurry.

"Oh, it seems that I am right." I said to Yingqi with a wry smile, "It seems that I have to go to Youguan."

Yingqi frowned and thought for a while and said: "Now Zhonghu City is empty, and you have to leave again, isn't this..."

"It's okay, I have already sent someone to repair the book for Yu Chenhui and Chu Yuan."

"What? Why are you looking for them?" Yingqi asked in surprise.

I sighed and said, "This city will always be handed over. It is safest to give it to these two people. At least, they will not lose this city."

"But……"

"There's nothing wrong with it. The two of you have never been at odds, and it's good to restrict each other." I smiled and said, "Su Yun is currently in the Yuan Kingdom, and she says she wants to spy on the military situation. You might as well go too. After all, wait for the two Sending people here, the Eagle Hall is also dangerous."

"I'm leaving too?" Yingqi said with wide-eyed eyes, "Isn't there really no one in Zhonghu City?"

"It's okay. The military strength of the three gates is still there, and it doesn't matter if there is no one guarding Zhonghu City. In the past few years, we have been reducing our troops, and the city guards have been reduced by more than half. At this time, even if there are a hundred fewer people, they will not be affected." would be suspicious."

Yingqi thought for a moment and said: "Although the Four Kingdoms have no plans to attack Zhonghu City, there are people in the Jianghu who want to kill you. Now there are almost no people from us in the main city. Isn't it very dangerous when you come back?"

I sneered and said, "You think those two people will kill me?"

Yingqi opened her mouth, but finally chose to remain silent, sighed and left.

"Elder Sister Ying, after you leave this time, don't come back, take everyone from the Eagle Hall with you." Yingqi, who had just taken half a step, froze in place, and said in disbelief: "You are... ..."

"The ten-year period is only a little more than a year, so we'd better plan to leave." I smiled and looked at Yingqi and said, "This time, Youguan and his party will probably be the last battle of the major general. When the time comes, this The city belongs to someone else."

Yingqi said with some surprise: "Okay! I'll let Yingtang go to prepare the place. When the time comes, we will all leave together."

I smiled and nodded in agreement.All these years, everyone has been stuck here.Now is the time for us to be free.I also don't want to care about those intrigues and entanglements with those people.For revenge or something, wouldn't it be best for me to disappear?

After people from Sheng Kingdom and Chu Kingdom took over the affairs of Zhonghu City, I took a few personal guards and rushed to Youguan overnight.