What about Mr. Faint?

After all, the situation developed to a situation where Gu couldn't control it. No matter how confident the general was in front of Gu, it couldn't stop the southern army from being familiar with the terrain.Casualties gradually increased. Looking at the wounded being carried in and out every day, the mood can only be described as complicated.

However, the general didn't seem to take this impending defeat to heart. He still slept with Gu in his clothes, ate and lived together.Occasionally, when he came back from a battle, he asked Gu to bandage his wound, and then took the book of war he wrote down and read it slowly to the babbling little Agu, as if he was teaching a student.

For the small complaints in his heart, the general always smiled lightly, turning his head and hugging Gu Jue without mentioning the war.Even so, Gu couldn't hold back in the end, and held his hand on the eve of his battle one day: "I'll go with you," looking up at his sharp-edged face, "This world is Gu's responsibility." .”

The general probably didn't expect Gu to say that. He was clasping his hands, and looked at Gu with a smile in his eyes: "Your Majesty, today's battle will cost you your life. You are a weak scholar. It's better not to fight with us vulgar people. If you have any injuries..."

"But I'm just waiting here, I'm not reconciled." Grabbing his hand, "General, whether this world falls into your hands or returns to Gu's hands, Gu just wants to do something for himself." No matter how powerless and weak you are, I no longer just look at your back and wait for your return.

In the beginning, what Gu wanted to be was exactly what you are now, General.

"General," Gu looked at him, wanting to express all his sincerity, "The general once told Gu that there was a small town in the border area, and there were only a few hundred families in the beginning. so that every winter is the most difficult time for them.”

"They had no quilts, no fine clothes and fine food. They could only keep warm with thatch and cover themselves with dead branches. Later, the expeditionary army went, brought soldiers, contacts, merchants, and Labor. For ten years, we have recruited refugees, built the city and expanded the land, and cleared up the forces. After ten years, we have the important border city that we have today."

He looked at Gu, turned around and lowered his head. A pair of black eyes stared at Gu: "The general spent ten years building such a checkpoint to protect our country. Now Gu is still young. It only takes ten years to give the general a peaceful country!" Clutching his fingers, the words trembled beyond expectations.

"Gu is [-] years old this year. Waiting for Gu to stand alone. Gu will let the world have no more children to eat and eat. The tragedy of abandoning the family and abandoning children. So General, you teach Gu—" Gu has always wanted to be a man who is as upright as the General Ah, "You teach Gu how to become a person like you, okay?"

The general bowed his head, and opened his lonely fingers one by one.For a moment, Gu seemed to return to the small courtyard that was shaken that day, and the queen mother crawled behind Gu, staring at the gate of the courtyard with her out-of-focus eyes.Snow fluttered outside the window, the yard was deserted, and the whole world was very quiet, with no one answering.

The general walked past Gu with strides, such a silent refusal made people feel cold all over.

When he was dazed, a simple and unpretentious eight-faced Han sword appeared in his sight. A big hand with sharp bones grasped the middle of the scabbard, and placed the sword horizontally in front of Gu: "If you want to fight and kill the enemy, "The general's voice was very deep, "Showing fists and embroidered legs is not enough to look at." Such a response.

Raising both hands to hold the sword of the old brother, the sword is not as gorgeous as the sword in the palace, and it does not have a famous name in the world, but if you feel it carefully, you can feel the biting killing intent and blood on it.The big brother didn't know how many people he killed with this sword. Later, the sword got into the hands of the general and almost killed Gu.

When he stabbed Gu's body, Gu thought it was fate.But later, he escaped a catastrophe, only to realize that it was grace.

The general had already turned around and raised the curtain, and stepped out.Gu held the sword in his arms and chased it out. In the distance was the sound of beating drums and horns. Gu knew that there were thousands of soldiers outside the camp, which were overwhelming iron tools, but this was also Gu's starting point. , a lonely beginning.

Before, I was only close to the main battlefield at close range, but now I am on the scene, watching the soldiers rushing up the distant city wall, watching the climbing ladder being pushed down and then erected again, watching the iron claws being thrown on the city wall, watching me Han The sons and heirs killed each other, and only then did they know what was buried under the righteousness they thought.

The current chaos, although it can be calmed down in ten years, is better than the decadent chaos in a hundred years, but what can it explain.However, it is still a peaceful and prosperous world piled up with human lives, and it is still prosperous with blood that should not be shed: "Why don't you use heavy weapons?" The general beside him looked heavy, and the lieutenants also had bad expressions.

While talking, arrows rained down on the city wall, and they rushed towards the soldiers of the expeditionary army densely. The corpses piled up under the city, but formed a new ladder, step by step upward.Such a difficult upward movement, such an appearance of never retreating and never being afraid: "Wouldn't it be better to just blow up the mouth?"

"It's hard." The general's expression became so calm that he became cruel. "Not to mention it's hard to control, the heavy equipment is difficult to transport and difficult to assemble. If you bring siege equipment, you may not come here in half a year. And what's more The boulders I need are too hard to find in the south." The general patiently answered Gu.

Under the strong smell of blood, the sun shines on the earth: "They only defend but not attack?"

"It's not them who are worrying about food and grass." The general's tone was loose, and he squinted at the blood-stained city wall.

... Such a heavy topic was spoken by the general in this way, no matter how lonely Gu was, he knew the importance of morale before the battle.But the surrounding lieutenants seemed to have not heard the general's words, they just focused on the fight on the battlefield, without any eyes or attention.

The offensive of the expeditionary army was fierce and decisive. Every moment, some people fell down, and some people staggered and stood up again.The gongs and drums beside him were booming, and the roaring in the distance was endless. Even the voice of the past became hard to find: "What if we lose?" Grasping the hilt of his sword, "The expeditionary army can't hold on anymore."

"En." The general's attitude was somewhat perfunctory, Gu even suspected that he didn't hear what Gu said just now, and was just dealing with Gu casually.Because he was staring at the city wall intently at the moment, as if there was some beauty on it that he was very concerned about, concentrated and focused.

"Relax." The scribe in green clothes stood next to Gu at some point, "The general never fights a war that he is not sure about."

These words did not comfort Gu, but made him even more disturbed: "What if this time...is an exception?"

"If you insist on saying that, this time is indeed an accident." The scribe in Tsing Yi smiled and raised his hand to touch his own chin, "This battle is really the first since the student joined the general. time."

Even more disturbing.

"Why didn't you make a general attack?" Gu looked at the soldiers behind him who were ready to go, and couldn't understand why the general did this. "These people staying here are just lowering their morale."

"Wait for someone." The general explained in this way.

"These delays for the past few days are all about waiting for an accurate news." The general put his palm on the horse's mane, looked at the battlefield where the sound of fighting was reduced, and looked up at the sky like a horoscope, like a magic stick, "and That person, calculate the time, he should be here soon." His tone was unhurried, no different from when he said he was going out for a walk after dinner.

Gu was in a hurry, but the scribe in Tsing Yi had the same calm look as the general: "Why should your majesty care so much?" His eyes could be called indifferent, "At the beginning, if your majesty said no to a big country, then you don't want it. Haven't you ever thought about how these soldiers who are pawns think?"

How can this be the same: "But the general he can't be..."

The rest of the words were interrupted by the messenger soldier who rushed over. The little soldier was only sixteen or seventeen, and he was a little staggering because he ran too fast.He grabbed the people behind him and pushed away all the soldiers who blocked him: "General, General!" He shouted excitedly, "Catch up! Catch up!"

Catch up with what?

The general looked at the man who was pulled over, and pulled up the gun that he had inserted on the ground with his backhand: "The rest of them, follow me into the battle to kill the enemy! Today's capture of this city will give you a reward!"

As soon as these words came out, Gu felt the morale of the surroundings shake, and the soldiers who were still a little downcast became awe-inspiring and uplifting.They looked at the city wall that had stuck them for so many days, and their eyes were full of desire to conquer.

"General," Gu saw the prime minister's haggard face but couldn't hide his joy, "Fortunately, he didn't disgrace his life." He glanced at Gu, and the accident and luck inside were exposed in front of Gu without any cover.

And the general stood straight in front of Gu, turned on his horse, held the gun in his hand until the crumbling city gate in the distance: "All officers and men listen to my orders!" Suddenly, "Follow me forward, attack the city!"

And the prime minister grabbed Gu who was about to move forward together. It had been a long time since he saw Gu and Gu. The soldier beside him rushed forward, "How much do you remember about your mother clan?"

The mother's... mother's family?