[Qin] Qin Shi

In the meeting hall, Yanbei's generals looked at each other and looked at each other.

Perhaps it was because the silence was too long, but the one who broke the silence was the young man standing at the top with dark blue eyes: "You have the food." It has been winter for a long time, but the young man is not wearing heavy clothes, a little The thin Hu suit outlined his handsome figure, "I won this bet."

When this matter was mentioned, the room once again fell into a strange and embarrassing atmosphere.

Until a relatively young lieutenant finally couldn't stand the atmosphere and couldn't help but said: "Little general..."

"You lost." Bai Shu repeated slowly, and behind the raised eyelids was a sharp edge, pointing directly at the lieutenant general, "Yes."

Looking at such a young man who is silent and sharp, the older lieutenant general feels that he is old for no reason and can no longer keep up with the footsteps of young people: "Young general, how did you persuade them to take out the food?" of?"

Those merchants who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles only have interests in their eyes, how difficult it is, they have also experienced it when Lian Po and even Li Mu were the guards of Yanbei in the past.Even not so long ago, they were turned away by these merchants and sent out of the gate with a smile, but they were spectators who refused to provide food and money to the border.

Regarding this matter, Bai Shu was unwilling to talk about it: "I naturally have my own means," casually ignoring their curiosity, and turning a blind eye to those eyes full of doubts looking at her, "I have proved my own ability, So, do you also have to abide by the agreement?"

"Major General, you are still young—"

"Shu has been with General Lian Po in Yanbei for many years. Although he has not personally experienced the battlefield, he has seen many battles, big and small. It is not comparable to you veterans, but Shu believes that you have also taken one step at a time. From Shu's current situation Only those who come here can stand here for a few days, with the ability to overwhelm others with age and experience."

These words sounded really hurtful, but everyone present could hear the dissatisfaction and anger of the little general above that they did not intend to keep the contract.

Keeping silent and continuing his own silence, on the contrary, the frown that had already spoken became more and more disapproving: "Do you know what a battlefield is?" It's not impatience, but the connivance and concession of the elders to the younger children, " Your private decision to let those people go—"

"Enough!" This time, it wasn't from Bai Shu's interruption, but from the man who had served as Lian Po's right-hand man when he was in Yanbei, and now is the man who temporarily replaced Yanbei's chief general when there was no transfer order in Handan.

The man with gray temples looked at the young man standing on the main seat, but tried to straighten his body, and suddenly let out a sigh: "You found half a month's salary within ten days as promised, and we lost the bet." .” He ignored the shocked eyes of his colleagues and pressed the decision button for this contest.

"It's just that there are less than [-] guards in Yanbei now, and these soldiers are given to you. How can you drive away the barbarians and defend the territory of Yanbei?" While talking, he walked in front of Bai Shu, not knowing where He took out his engraved seal and knelt down in front of Bai Shu on one knee.

His act of surrender was tantamount to surrender, which attracted even more restless voices: "General?!"

The man turned a deaf ear, he knelt in front of Bai Shu and looked up at the little general with baby-fat cheeks and his pretty face, but he couldn't recall the past in his mind. What does the story look like when telling a joke.

Maybe it's really looking down on him, after all, he is too young and has a harmless face.

[It's a green name,] the system whispered aggressively, [Can you try to win him over? 】

"Take the initiative to attack," Bai Shu looked down at the engraved seal that was less than half the size of the man's palm, "We can't defend the city."

No one can refute this sentence, and it cannot be refuted.

Behind everyone's backs, they made the original intention of sacrificing the minority to preserve the majority. Didn't they just hope that the sacrifice of those people could be exchanged for the preservation of Yanbei's fragile border defense: "If we take the initiative to attack, how can we win?"

"Back then, if Qi hadn't besieged Wei to save Zhao, Zhao would have already been a border city of Wei, so how could it still exist? It's only been so many years, wouldn't you have completely forgotten it?" Fingers like iron The engraved seal in the middle-aged man's hand was locked like a hook. The clean and slender fingers of the young man were in stark contrast to the man's thick and scarred palm.

However, it was such a pair of hands that firmly grasped the seal that symbolized rights, and never let go.

When it came to the matter of besieging Wei and saving Zhao many years ago, those older soldiers who had heard about it or experienced it all gasped.

Not for other reasons, but if this matter is really going to "encircle Wei and save Zhao", what kind of bloody battle will it be?

"I'm still young," Bai Shu laughed amidst these panting sounds, his brows stretched relaxed, "someone told me that if you can't sing and drink while you're young, and get angry once, it will be a waste of time." It’s been a long time—poetry and wine are taking advantage of the time, right.”

"What if I can't come back?" After all, it is the child who I watched grow up, no matter how politically disagreed, no matter how disliked, there is still a bit of expectation and care waiting for the seedlings to grow up in my heart. Feelings.

As a result, the most relaxed person in the room at the moment is Bai Shu who is the person involved.

He maintained the smile on his face, and clasped the seal of the governor of Yanbei in the man's hand: "Then it will be gone forever." The cheerful tone did not seem to be talking about his own life and death, but everyone You can hear his firmness, "If you die, what does the trouble after death have to do with me?"

"If I die, even if the Yanbei after death is turned upside down, it has nothing to do with me as a dead person!" The engraved seal in hand is not heavy. You can play with your fingertips with only one hand, "Besides, you don't believe that I can succeed at all, do you?"

He calmly smiled at his own life and death: "So, if you don't have the slightest confidence in victory, how can you lead the soldiers to win a war?"

Putting the seal in his arms, his brows were full of moving innocence: "But it doesn't matter, I have confidence in myself and I will get better--you see, I have already won half of the bet between you and me. If I come back alive , then Yanbei will be mine from now on—should you welcome me back alive, or hope I die outside the pass?"

When such murderous words are mentioned in a relaxed tone, some people just shudder: "However, if I die, there must be someone who can guard Yanbei and deal with those who may be particularly annoyed because of my death." Merchants, clean up the mess I left behind, right?"

Xu Shi noticed the more serious expression on the other side, Bai Shu told him a joke, and then succeeded in making everyone else laugh out loud.

Then he changed the subject and added another chip to his balance: "Aren't you very curious about what kind of deal I made with them so that I can get food from those guys——When I die, You will know it—although it is better to suggest that you don’t follow my example.”

The young man's ending is upturned, playful and cheerful, coupled with his relatively delicate and unopened appearance, he looks very much like the seductive fairy in the story.But at this moment, everyone in the camp was looking at him, but no one was bewitched by Yan Yan's gentle laughter.

Even the lieutenants looked at the smile on the face of this well-behaved and quiet young man in the past, and felt that the hairs on their backs were about to explode. The intuition developed on the battlefield kept reminding them of the warning of 'danger, escape'.

If the senses also have warning lights, then at this moment they must have the red light up and scream to escape.

"But even if you count the food you brought back, the soldiers can only survive for another half a month, plus the food stored in the granary now, after one month..."

"No, those grains are not for soldiers." Bai Shu replied, "So, as your new generals—have you heard of the three fires when new officials take office~"

Half an hour later, the soldiers of Yanbeiguan gathered in the relatively empty martial arts arena. The crowd of soldiers crowded together and surrounded the newly built platform in the middle of the venue: "The general called us to gather here!" , why?"

The soldier poked at his colleagues beside him, looked around at the crowd of comrades around him, and asked the topic that countless people around him were discussing at the moment: "Could it be for the food and salaries brought into the barracks?"

As he said that, he couldn't help but licked his lips and salivated: "It's been a long time since I can let go of my stomach and have a good meal. If I can have a good meal, with wine and meat, then it's worth dying." gone."

"I heard that the food shipped back this time includes wine and meat, and it's worth hundreds of carts!" Another man standing next to him echoed, "I shouldn't have to worry about this winter, and I don't know where the generals got them from." I bought food, and the price of food has been ridiculously high recently, every time I go back, my mother-in-law keeps talking about it—I heard that it was not shipped from Handan."

"Then it must have robbed the granary of some prince or grandson." Gossip is always the topic of the lunch break, and someone else interrupted, "I heard that a villager died in the north a few days ago. If you eat something from a dead person, you might as well give us our last meal."

This remark attracted the echoes of other people: "I don't know which general is so courageous, don't care where the food comes from, just because he can get the food at this time-my first Convinced."

These words elicited a burst of small laughter from the surroundings, not malicious, but purely happy.

Just as they were talking, the discussion in front suddenly quieted down, and the soldiers turned their heads one after another, and saw a young man in black uniform appearing on the platform that had just been built.

"Huh? That's a student of General Lian Po's side?" Lian Po has just left the border for half a year, and the soldiers still have an impression of the handsome young man who has been by Lian Po's side and has been widely rumored to be Lian Po's apprentice. of.

"What did he come up for?" For a moment, there were small discussions, like countless ants crawling over fallen leaves, endlessly, "Could it be that you want to dance for us to strengthen our morale?"

The young man standing on the stage was unaware of the whispers below. He stood in the sun, with his hands behind his back, his feet parallel to his shoulders, and his chin slightly raised: "Eight days ago, the northernmost village of Yanbei was plundered by the Huns. , Less than one out of five people escaped from the village, cattle and sheep were robbed, children were looted, and houses were burned to ruins."

Such an opening immediately stunned everyone.Some people heard it for the first time, some people were shocked by the official confirmation after hearing the gossip, and some people felt bad about the boy's unexpected opening.

The young man on the high platform had his hands behind his back, like a boy in a school being named and endorsed by his teacher, mechanically and plainly referring to the villages that had been harassed, slaughtered, burned, and disappeared on this land. , one counts as one, unfolded in front of everyone.

When I saw it individually, I didn't think it. After all, the Xiongnu and Qiang people come every year, and the fixed "visit" in winter has almost become a small project at the border.But when the strings of names were laid out in front of them, when all the inconspicuous winter days were displayed in front of their eyes, what filled their hearts was full of disbelief and trance.

Those long-forgotten memories, the occasional glimpse of parents crying at night when they were children, the little friends who never saw each other when they went to the market in the town, and the occasional migration and escape in winter break out of the ice at this moment and jump into my mind.

People have always been such forgettable creatures. When no one mentions it, it is a great grievance and pain. Even if it is bloody or even rotten, it will never feel wronged or lost.

But when the wound was mentioned by others, the pain came as promised at this time. Those emotions that were suppressed to the point that they couldn't even notice it, in a simple question of "Are you okay?" After a long flood, I finally found an outlet to vent. No matter how uncontrollable it was, I realized that the pain was so piercing.

Bai Shu didn't seem to be aware of this bloody number, the unconcealable enmity behind these plain words.He stood on the high platform by himself, telling the forgotten and covered history of this land with his calm voice.

He is like an old-fashioned old gentleman, standing on the stage and telling the rotten past that makes the students drowsy, regardless of the students below who have already fallen asleep, immersed in his own world-until only the students left in the field His voice alone never stopped.

No one stopped him, and no one interrupted him. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the field, so quiet that he could only hear his own breathing. side.

"You should thank them." When the long list came down, the young man on the high platform judged, "If it weren't for their sacrifices, the appetite of those Huns would be filled, and the grassland would be blocked with their deaths and corpses." Hungry wolf, you and I will not stand here today."

Such words made some soldiers gasp, but after thinking about it, it seemed that it was true, and he said nothing wrong.The Xiongnu went south every year, always for the winter, the grassland was not suitable for planting, food or winter clothes were always looted.

How could they return to the grassland if they hadn't already grabbed enough of them to survive the winter.Such a simple and easy-to-understand truth, no one has ever clearly revealed the truth and facts before—maybe everyone is deceiving themselves, or it is really moistening things silently—until I think about it, I don’t realize it. In time, it has reached such a terrifying number.

"But you guys, are you willing?"

"Every year someone dies for you, just because they live in a place where Yanbei is already north. Like you, they have parents who need to be filial, and children who need to be supported. Like you, they are also parents for others, They are also other people's children. Stepping on their death, stepping on the tears and hatred of their blood relatives—what if one day they become you?"

No one answered, only silence.

"If one day, your home, your village, and your homeland block the way for the Huns to go south."

"If one day, your family members, your neighbors, and your familiar companions will be slaughtered and robbed just like those villages you turned a blind eye to in the past."

"If your children become slaves of others, if your women are despised by other men, if your parents watch your wife and children being persecuted by others, and die with grievances - will you regret it, will you hate it?"

No one responded, only silence.

"When Shu was young, he heard from the masters in the school that King Wuling admired Hufu riding and shooting, and strengthened the country's health, so that the six countries did not dare to look down on Zhao, and made the grassland nomadic tribes submit to Zhao. They went south every year to worship. Don't kill and loot less. Zhao Guo at that time, Yanbei at that time, how beautiful it must be!"

"But now?"

"Today's Zhao State, today's Yanbei, and the land under your feet, they come and go whenever they want. They bully your relatives and trample on your homeland, but you don't care?" The young man raised his voice, "What if One day, your children asked where your hometown is, how do you tell him that your home was burned by Kou?"

"How do you tell him that you are a lost dog? Do you use lies, deceit, and kindness to cover up your incompetence? If he asks you, why do you leave your homeland and return home while others die in battle to defend their home and country?" Living in someone else's country—does he still look at you with reverence?"

"You are soldiers, guarding Yanbei's spear and protecting Yanbei's shield. Behind you is your home, your country, your relatives and your friends. What you guard are your parents and wives, you Your friends and future. What you are referring to is your enemy. What you are protecting is yourself!"

"It is to let your descendants gallop their horses on the grassland unscrupulously, and play around in winter without any scruples. Don't worry about the invasion of barbarians in winter, don't worry about not having enough food, not enough warm clothes, how to spend the winter. They can Learning to read and write in this land, the biggest daily worries are 'what to eat' and 'what to do'."

"I hope that after us, there will never be any children who become slaves to others, no women will cry because of our cowardice, and no elders will die because of worries. I hope , the blood and flesh of the predecessors will not be buried in vain."

"I hope that after us, when the world hears the word 'Yanbei', the enemy will tremble and friends will cheer. I hope that as long as the world knows that the 'Yanbei Army' is still there, they will not dare to spy on the land of Yanbei." Land. Even more ambitious, I hope that wherever we go, it will become Yanbei."

"Hu people dare not go south to herd horses, and scholars dare not bend their bows and complain."

"Such a scene, how beautiful it must be."

"Confucianism teaches repaying grievances with virtue, but let me say blood for blood, tooth for tooth!" The young man raised his head, his voice impassioned, "We want to fight, even if we hit the last person, we must tell them—this is my wild goose!" The land in the north, how can you barbarians be allowed to peek at it!"

"You are dead, but there will always be people living who will remember your sacrifice and bravery. They will live with you and live on your behalf. They will live better, will be happy and grateful, and will live your life Looking forward to the life they lead."

"As long as spring doesn't die, there will be spring flowers every year."

The author has something to say: Is this article finished, not yet.

Why did the episode suddenly appear, because the main text cannot be written anymore and some plots are needed.

*The stalk of never returning has been mentioned before, it comes from the Internet, and the original origin cannot be tested.