For the emperor

At the beginning of autumn, the war planned by Cang Tiansu and worked hard for several months officially broke out.The location took place in Pingye City in the territory of the former Qi Kingdom.

After more than half a year, after experiencing no less than a hundred battles, the army of the Cang Kingdom finally broke a gap in the iron wall and drove straight in. Taking the line connecting Yulan Town and Yuanli City as the central axis, they marched triumphantly all the way.

"Deputy General Zhang led the troops from Pingye City to the Zangliang Mountains hundreds of miles away. We ambushed the soldiers here in advance... outflanking the left and right to cut off the rear." Cang Tiansu dipped a brush in ink and wrote on the military map Draw a heavy black line.

Li Renqiang rubbed his chin, and was the first to raise an objection: "The guard of Pingye City, Li Quanquan, is very happy, but such an obvious trap, even if he is dazzled by the victory, he may not be willing to step in."

Cang Tiansu was silent for a while, then glanced around at the generals who were staring at him eagerly, and then said softly: "That's why I sent Vice General Zhang to go."

Adjutant Zhang Qingfu from Cang Kingdom was persecuted from Qi State, and his family moved to Cang Kingdom. It took a lot of effort for Adjutant Zhang to win everyone's trust.And the Zhang family happened to have a blood feud with the Li family where the guard of Pingye City, Li Quanyu, lived. Both sides wanted to dig up the other's ancestral grave.

"Tomorrow we must fight to the death and never retreat. After nine out of ten of my subordinates are dead, I will arrange another small group of people to sweep through the surrounding towns and pass by to rescue them. Soldiers on the battlefield will leave their wounded and flee to Zangliang with Deputy General Zhang... I think he will be fooled." Cang Tiansu stopped talking at this point.

Zhang Qingfu took a deep breath.In other words, once this battle is over, the brothers who have fought countless battles with him may not be able to come back.

To fight a siege battle with thousands of elite soldiers cultivated by a veteran of our side for more than ten years, in order to win, kill one thousand enemies and lose two thousand at the expense of two thousand.

He raised no objections.Pingye City has always been known as a dangerous place, the terrain is steep, the equipment used to siege the city is useless at all, and the soldiers can't completely line up. In the past, only the Cang Kingdom army used corpses to pile up the city wall.

This time, in order to prevent the army of the Cang Kingdom from penetrating into its abdomen, Qi Guo specially deployed heavy troops to defend here. The famous general Li Quankui was also dispatched here from the capital.

I have no choice but to use [-] soldiers to earn the opponent's general. There is no other way.This is only the first step in capturing Pingye City, and it is not known how many lives will be taken for this in the future.

At the end of the meeting, the generals gradually dispersed.

Cang Tiansu lowered his head, looked at the khaki map on the table, followed the ink line he had just drawn over and over again with his fingertips, and gradually fell into deep thought.

Duan De gestured to his son who was waiting beside him to go out first, and then stared at the half-grown boy in front of him: "You always look like this, they will think you are too impersonal."

"...What?" Cang Tiansu was silent for a while, and looked up at him.

Duan De sighed, but finally said nothing.During the recent period, Cang Tiansu officially entered the military account and began to participate in the planning of various battles.

As a result, Duan De gradually discovered that this man who seemed easy to talk had a terrifying ruthlessness buried deep in his eyes. Whether it was the life of the opponent's soldiers or his own soldiers, when it came time to abandon him, he would never hesitate at all. .

Li Mi told Cang Tiansu that every life should be respected, but the family history of princes, generals and ministers told him that precious lives can be given way to politics.

In the heart of the young Cang Tiansu, two diametrically opposed cognitions were formed. In normal times, every life is the most precious thing. He is willing to respect the right of every individual to live, but when necessary, the dead are not It no longer represents the crying of children, the dumb crying of the elderly, and no longer represents the separation of wives and children of families. It is just a series of numbers, which are chips used by politicians to play tricks.

It's a non-fatal but horrific personality flaw.Just like Li Kui can kill so much that he swings his ax and chops at the heads of the onlookers. The horror of a person does not lie in his cruelty, but often in his cruelty without knowing it.

Duan De still remembered that Cang Tiansu, who had only three years to come of age, stepped into the main account for the first time, and many generals were a little bit embarrassed.

Young age is part of the reason, but more importantly, this young man is like the lingering spring water of the silk and bamboo water town, warm and clean, without the slightest edge or corner, and there is no killing spirit of a general in his whole body.

How could such a person have the ability to act as the dispatcher of thousands of troops?

When the bloody corpse is in front of him, will he hesitate, will he be timid, will he hesitate, will he be so frightened that he can't speak?

As a result, when the time came when he really needed to be ruthless, no one who looked at him didn't feel a chill down his spine.The huge difference between inside and outside made every general feel terrified when he saw it.

Duan De withdrew his thoughts, saw that Cang Tiansu had been staring at the map without speaking, thinking that he was still worried about whether tomorrow's battle would go well, and was about to offer comfort, but Cang Tiansu had already spoken before him: "I'm thinking that if we really attack After leaving this city, how should we deal with the ordinary people in the city.”

Duan De was stunned for a moment, and followed him to look at the famous war city on the Wuji Continent with a complicated expression.

Xue Pingye, the famous founding general of Qi State, conquered all his life and made great military exploits. Many of the land that Qi State is guarding now was taken from the Lord of Cang State by himself.

Xue Pingye retired in his old age, so he chose to live in seclusion in a small town at the border of Cang and Qi. The founding emperor of Qi specifically named him Pingye Town.

Over the past few hundred years, this small town that was originally inconspicuous on the frontier has continued to expand, and coupled with the changes in the two countries' territories, it is no longer so close to remote areas.

The current Pingye has changed from a small town to a big city, and it has become unparalleled in prosperity, and has become one of the most prosperous and famous cities in the southeast of Qi Country.The people of Cang Kingdom have gone through all kinds of dangers five times and successfully captured this city. But when the army rested and continued to advance into the interior of Qi Kingdom, without exception, the people who lived here would raise their swords and guns and leave the army behind. The thin defenses were wiped out.

The aborigines who believed that General Xue's blood flowed in their bodies enjoyed the special leniency of the emperor every year, and the corvee and tax collection were a whole lot better than those of the surrounding counties and towns.

The ubiquitous sense of superiority makes them look down on Cang people from the bottom of their hearts, and their loyal support for Qi is no less than that of the wealthy princes and nobles in the capital of Qi.

How can something that goes deep into the blood, engraved into the faith, and engraved in the soul be changed?

Qi Guo's previous emperor once said without complacency that it might not take three months for Cang Kingdom to capture Pingye City, but it would take a long-term plan of more than 30 years to truly conquer Pingye City.

But now, it is impossible for the invincible Northwest Army to stick to this city and stand still.Let alone 30 years, even if they stay here for an extra 30 days, the DPRK and China will definitely start a war of words over this.

Duan De looked at the red dot on the map for a while, carefully observed Cang Tiansu's face, and after a long time of deliberation, he finally opened his mouth: "We all understand that the only way to completely occupy this place is..."

After all, he didn't dare to speak.This is the tacit secret of the far-sighted generals in the military camp. Just saying it, the guilt welling up in their hearts can drown people alive.

In peaceful times, Pingye City had a population of more than 100 million people. Rich businessmen, frustrated scholars, tourists, and all kinds of people from the southeast of Qi Kingdom would gather here.Now that the war is approaching, judging from the news that the spies who sneaked into the city returned, the number of people is not less than 60.

60, the people who will stick to it in this season are usually native aborigines, that is, enemies who will not hesitate to take up swords and guns to resist.

The method Duan De mentioned was not unheard of by the generals in the past few times, but it is one thing to think about it, but another thing to dare to do it.

This is indeed a good way to get it done once and for all, but no matter whether you have great military exploits or a great reputation, if you give an order, you are destined to be infamous and reviled by all people.

After the army returned to the capital, not to mention the military exploits gained by fighting to the death on the battlefield this time, not to mention, the coach might be imprisoned for a lifetime.After a lifetime of exhaustion and exhaustion, if such a result is exchanged in the end, no one can bear it.

Therefore, without exception, the army of the Cang Kingdom conquered Pingye several times, and the general would rather immediately ask the emperor for orders to return to the court immediately, rather than waste time in Pingye City.The result is often that the people of Pingye City have risen up before the court's order has been issued.

"Everyone in the army now knows that all orders are directly issued by me." Cang Tiansu raised his head, raised his pointed chin slightly, looked straight into the distance, and the dark pupils in his eyes dizzy a lot, "If I can pull out this bone spur, I don't mind bearing the eternal infamy."

He was in a dilemma when he was beating Ye City, and he was still in a dilemma after beating it down. No wonder every time Cang Kingdom made several western expeditions, the army was always stuck here, with bones stuck in their throats.

This is a dead end.

As long as one day the people of Pingye City are unwilling to truly accept the rule of Cang Kingdom, as long as they have the ability to take up swords and guns to resist, as long as there is a day when Cang Kingdom cannot cross the Zangliang Mountain that spans thousands of miles, and Chengguo Homeland, bypassing Pingye City and swinging troops westward, this game is doomed to lose or lose. His son, who had been waiting impatiently, lifted the curtain and winked at him, instantly pursed the hesitation and entanglement on his face, patted Cang Tiansu on the shoulder, and walked out first.

Cang Tiansu stared at him for a while, Duan Yu rushed in to look at what he was doing, and said in a low voice, "Ah Yu, can you ride a horse with me later to relax?"

Duan Yu's eyes lit up, without even thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay!"

The siege continued for more than a month.

In the past month or so, Zhang Qingfu, the adjutant of the Cang Kingdom, led the few hundred people left in the headquarters, and Li Quankui, the guard of Pingye City, fought desperately in the Zangliang Mountains, and both sides died in the end; Arriving one step too late, thousands of soldiers broke through the city gates and entered the city. They were trapped in Pingye City, and finally died in street fighting with the residents of Pingye City.

Street fighting, what a ridiculous term, in all the cities and towns of the Promise Continent, every resident of the occupied city is his own enemy, I am afraid that it will only happen in Pingye City.

After the finishing work of the army, there were too many corpses piled up in the city, and they gathered together again. The city gate could not be opened from the outside, and the only way to transport troops was to climb the wall and hang ropes.

Cang Tiansu stood at the top of the city, watching the soldiers under the city wall coming and going to clean up the corpses.Duan Yu stood next to him closely, followed by hundreds of guards.Everyone was on guard, for fear that an aborigine would come out of nowhere and hurt this delicate and precious little ancestor.

"The accumulation of casualties in the two countries is enough to fill up the 16-meter city wall of Pingye." Cang Tiansu raised his hand and slowly drew an ellipse in the air, his voice neither happy nor sad.

Duan Yu scratched his hair and comforted in a low voice: "Susu, we are already the fastest army to break through Pingye City. Don't think too much, war always involves death and life."

Cang Tiansu turned to look at him, raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "I didn't think too much about it. Compared with the people who are dead now, the real attack on Ping Ye has just begun."

Duan Yu felt that his smile at this time was unspeakably weird, and even revealed a sinister taste, he subconsciously looked away, and after gathering his composure, he said: "Go back, Daddy ordered you not to stay outside too late .”

The two of them went back to the army's temporary camp, and the camp was almost set up.Cang Tiansu didn't go to see how his tent was arranged, but after coaxing Duan Yu away, he went directly to Duan De's main tent.

General Duan was indeed waiting for him. When he saw him coming in, he nodded his chin, pointed to the seat next to him, and said concisely: "Sit."

Cang Tiansu sat down as promised.

"I've thought about it for a long time, and I can't agree with your approach anyway." Duan De expressed his thoughts before he could open his mouth, "You are still young, so it is inevitable that you are not thoughtful enough when you do things. People scold you, and everyone criticizes you, isn't it? You can bear it. Your life has just begun, why bother to destroy yourself?"

Cang Tiansu shook his head, but did not make a sound.He planned for three full years to attack Qi State in the north, and he couldn't get rid of it even for a moment.

If he wanted to return to the imperial palace, he could only make great military exploits and return to the court with the army triumphantly. This was the only way he could think of.

It is precisely because his life has just begun that it is impossible to stop because of a bottle of Night City.

Once this opportunity is lost, I don't know how long it will be until Emperor Cang Jing remembers his son who is far away in the sky.

He can't wait.

Duan De saw that this person was recalcitrant, and was afraid that he would really say that desperate decision at tomorrow's meeting, so he said anxiously: "Prince, you have to wait patiently for a few more years, and when you come of age, you must If you have a chance to return to the palace... your ability is obvious to all this time, the emperor will definitely not give up on you easily."

He can.

Of course he will.

Cang Tiansu's long eyelashes trembled.

Duan De always thought that he was still young when he left the palace, and he didn't know much about the seemingly lazy man on the dragon chair. The father and son had only met each other a few times. After so many years, they should have almost forgotten about it.

This is not the case.

He remembered and saw clearly the man he should have called "Father."

The army was stuck in Pingye City and couldn't move forward. This was Cang Jinglan's expected ending. If he could only stage a scene where the other party could guess the end after reading the beginning, no matter how twists and turns the process was or how the actors were No matter how devoted he is, he can't attract Emperor Cang Jing's attention.

It's not that Cang Tiansu doesn't know what the consequences of doing so mean, but at the same time, he also understands that his father is faintly forcing him to accept the only option that is beyond redemption.

If nothing can be done, there is no need for Pepsi. At this moment, he has no choice at all.

Seeing this, Duan De understood his persistence and didn't say anything more to persuade him. He just sighed silently and avoided every possible way. Finally, this day has come. Is it really destined and inevitable?

"Eldest Prince, Duan De can give me all the five thousand soldiers under my command, the authority to lead the commander, the secret intelligence system, and the contact information with officials in the court." Duan De paused, "It's just that I Just such a son, I hope that he will inherit his father’s wishes and stay on the most unstable frontier of Cangguo forever, with the wind and sand and wolves. I hope that he will become a general admired by all people... instead of being jealous and competing for favor Spend the rest of your life in the wilderness."

On the Promise Continent, the atmosphere is open, and it is not uncommon for Longyang to love each other, and it is not uncommon for men to favor male concubines.The previous emperor of Qi State even took his brother in the harem, and even granted him the title of imperial concubine.

Duan De saw the two juniors getting closer in the past few years, and he felt a faint worry in his heart.His son should be an eagle soaring in the sky. How could someone break his wings, pluck out his feathers, and raise him in a chicken coop to eat and die?

Cang Tiansu was stunned, nodded and assured him: "I understand, the incense of the Duan family cannot be cut off. He has his own responsibility, and he can't get angry because of selfishness. I never meant to take Ah Yu into the backyard." It is obvious that General Duan spent 20 years raising his son, of course it was not for warming his bed.

Duan De finally laughed, and stroked his soft black hair like an elder: "Work hard, your future is still very long. I, Duan De, do not seek to be rich forever, but to be famous forever." After speaking, he took a step forward. He went out and went straight to Duan Yu's tent.

Cang Tiansu didn't get up, but folded his arms on the table, bent down, buried his head in the crook of his arms, moved the corners of his mouth, and was in a daze.

On the second day, despite the unanimous opposition of all the generals, Duan De proposed to patrol the city for three weeks to subdue the hearts of the people.

Li Renqiang's mouth was almost worn out, and he couldn't change the general's decision.He frowned and stared at the coach with whom he had been friends for more than [-] years for a long time. Seeing his unprecedented determination and resolute attitude, he had a bad premonition brewing in his heart.

Li Renqiang is very clear that now that Pingye City is initially set up, the residents are unbearable indignation, and their resistance is extremely strong. In addition, there must be mixed enemy soldiers inside. Any patrolling the city at this time will directly increase the difficulty of the guards by several levels. , in particular, General Duan did not agree with other generals to follow.

He didn't know what the hell this guy was doing, but one person definitely knew.After the meeting adjourned, Li Renqiang pulled Cang Tiansu back almost without any hesitation, and hinted at it with all his strength.

While talking, Li Renqiang shut up consciously.He can see that Cang Tiansu is also very wrong today.At this moment, this person has dark circles under his eyes, and his eye bags are blue. He must have not slept well last night, and he was out of his mind, with his dark phoenix eyes open in a daze, as if he hadn't heard what he said.

...Could it be?

Li Renqiang looked at him with a strange expression, fell silent for a while, and let go of Cang Tiansu's arm, the worry in his heart deepened.

Duan De announced to the people in the city that he was going to patrol the city in the morning, and it was not until after lunch that he took his time and arranged people to prepare for the departure.In the evening, Duan De's guards carried back Duan De who had been hit by three arrows with pale faces.

One arrow hit the left shoulder, another arrow hit the abdomen, and the deadliest arrow pierced Duan De's left eye, causing blood to flow continuously.

The military doctor just checked his pulse, then shook his head and walked away.

Duan Yu, who was guarding the bedside, was the first to rush up, clenched Duan De's hand, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word, tears rolled out directly.

"Stupid child." Duan De smiled at him peacefully after having been famous all his life in front of people, "Do you still remember what Dad told you?"

When Duan De mentioned the matter of marrying a wife and having children yesterday, his son gave him a blank stare.

At this time, Duan Yu remembered the scene of yesterday evening, wiped away his tears, gritted his teeth to hold back the crying, and nodded vigorously.

The corners of Duan De's eyes showed relief, and his voice gradually died down. After a long delay, the already dim eyes once again had light again.He turned his right eye, and finally took a look at the generals who were full of tents, and said with difficulty: "As the general of Zhenbei University... I will give you one last order... This time I... die in Ping Ye City... ...It's all because of Ping...Ping Ye City's ignorant people... Anyway...I want...I want...the whole city...to be buried with me..." By the end, her voice had gradually weakened .

Duan De looked at his son reluctantly, his lips moved slightly, but he didn't make any sound, he just pushed his slightly erect body back on the bed.

The sound of sorrow suddenly burst out.

Duan Yu let out a low growl, and tore the bed sheet forcefully, the veins on his forehead popped out, his face was blood red, he was so painful that he couldn't speak a word.

Standing at the door, Cang Tiansu silently lowered his head under the almost ferocious gaze of the red-eyed Li Renqiang.