Those things about fighting wits and courage with the little grudges

"General, water."

"Luobei, did Hei find it?"

Luo Bei shook his head.

The marching team wandered round and round, and the crows who had been following them all dispersed. It was almost half a month since they left Wenyuan, and the news could not be sent back now.

After several battles, several of them were more or less wounded, so they would havetily bandaged their arms, leaned over and asked, "General, how should we march next?"

Gu Nanzhao looked up at the sky. Now that it is late August, he thought for a while, and poked here and there on the ground with a branch. "In this way, Wenyuan can't be empty, you go first, and I will meet you before winter."

Yun Shu tilted his head and glanced at what Gu Nanzhao had drawn on the ground, and understood immediately: "Does the general want it?"

"good."

If the lords of the Twelve Cities don't die or drop a few, the situation is not broken.Although Zhehe opened the gate of the Quxia Kingdom at the beginning, the Twelve Cities were subordinate cities of Zhehe, and most of them were divided and ruled by the original Quxia princes, who paid taxes and tributes every year.

Things are not over until the end of autumn and winter, whether it is the flood season or the snow season, there will be a truce, which is a good time for Zhehe to breathe.

Yun Shu understood what Gu Nanzhao meant, and with a straight face, he was thinking about how to open his mouth and follow along, but he also knew that he had to take the team back.Luo Bei didn't understand, and asked what he meant, but Gu Nanzhao didn't answer, so he pulled Yun Shu aside.

"Yunshu, what does the general mean?"

"Siege the city alone."

"No! General, please bring your subordinates with you." Luo Bei rushed to Gu Nanzhao, folded his fists and knelt down on one knee.

"Luobei, you have to remember that all the orders you get are according to my orders."

"Your Majesty asked me to follow the general. I will be dereliction of duty if I go."

"Luobei, you need to know that most of you only have the ability to inquire and convey news. The vanguard has trained me for many years just to fight this kind of battle. It is useless for you to follow me, and Hei has not caught up. The news cannot be communicated to His Majesty in time. If you communicate with each other, you don’t know how much trouble will happen.”

"You go back to garrison Wenyuan together. Your majesty, you can tell me that I am in Maocheng. Before you leave the king's city, your majesty knows the tactics. You can go back and tell your majesty, so that I can march better. Your spies pass the battle report. Much faster than the scouts, I give my life to you, you understand!"

Gu Nanzhao turned around and got on his horse, and went to ride the vanguard. Luo Bei wanted to chase him, but he was killed by Yun Shula. "Carrots, military orders are like mountains!"

Luo Bei struggled to break free, Yun Shu was afraid of hurting him and hugged him tightly, unexpectedly this move made Luo Bei go limp.

This action frightened Yun Shu, he usually drags people like this, how could he make people paralyzed.

Gu Nanzhao also noticed the movement here, he knew it, and hurried over to drag him aside.The matter of Mingmen must not be revealed, but there is no other way if it is already like this. "Yunshu, get him there right away, you guys watch the time and leave."

"Yun Shu takes orders."

Immediately, the Pioneer Cavalry was ready to go, and went straight to Maocheng.

Day and night, I don't know how many nights have passed. This day, the vanguard set off in the evening light, and the waning moon came. Maocheng fought against it a few days ago, but now it is shrouded in bloody flames.

Maocheng suffered heavy casualties, so they took advantage of their illness to kill them.

The vanguard cavalry lined up and threw their hooks and claws up the city wall to climb in. Some were responsible for dealing with the defenders, and some came down to open the city gate, and they could go straight.

Gu Nanzhao held his long sword and entered the city with a smile. His hearty smile was extremely inconsistent with the sinister eyes, and the team rushed straight to the innermost part.

Maocheng, the old capital of Quxia.

If the moat hadn't been filled, there would still be a battle, but Zhehe was afraid of that moat. After Liuyuan Quxia guarded Maocheng, he filled that moat to prevent future troubles.

The former majestic royal city was burned to ashes long ago, and replaced by a city lord's mansion.

Gu Nanzhao's eyes turned red early, he shook the blood off the sword with one hand, and walked into the city lord's mansion step by step with the head of the city guard in the other.

Passing through the front hall, I saw the Mayor of Maocheng trying to escape, there were not many soldiers in the Mansion of the Mayor of the City, and a few scattered people guarded the Mayor of Maocheng behind.However, it is the end of the crossbow, and it cannot withstand a few tosses by the vanguard.

"It's been a long time."

The city lord of Maocheng looked at the man in white armor, as if he saw a life-threatening impermanence crawling out of a fierce prison.

"Qi..." Before Lan Jia could say the word, the Lord of Maocheng had died.

After cleaning, confiscating, and counting, the wing rooms in the main courtyard were not searched. Gu Nanzhao went in and listened carefully. There was still breathing in the inner room. He went in to check, and then laughed loudly. The shackles that bound the man's hands and feet.

"Gu Nanzhao!" The man's pupils dilated and he forgot to breathe for a moment.

"Don't be afraid, son, the arrogance of the past is gone." He was still smiling, watching the man fall down and crawling all the way outside.However, the man had lost strength in his hand after being imprisoned for a long time, let alone his hamstring, and stopped there without moving a few times.

"I remember that the young master is excellent at playing the piano, how about asking the young master to play the piano for me?"

Gu Nanzhao rummaged for a long time, but luckily there was a piano.He dragged the piano with one hand and the person with the other, and went up to the high city wall.The flag of Maocheng was too obtrusive, so Gu Nanzhao took it off with his own hands and threw it into the brazier, then took out a flag without words from his arms, and wrote the word Yuanqi with his bloodstained hands as a sword formula.

"Gu Hou! You are really loyal to Yuan Qi!" The man yelled these words.

"Young master is too famous." He straightened the man's posture and put the qin on the man's lap. "I remember that the young master can play nine music."

After finishing speaking, Gu Nanzhao sat down cross-legged in front of that person, with an attitude of listening attentively.

"So what, what if you don't, Gu Nanzhao, you killed me, you killed me!" The man's face twisted, and he was no longer gentle and elegant.

Gu Nanzhao sighed, a little regretful: "It's a pity, young master is a pair of masters that others can't ask for. If you study the piano skill with more heart, you can be called the best in the world. It's a pity, it's a real pity. Young master is too hostile to play now. To play nine music, let me play the piano."

Close your eyes and meditate, the sound of the piano overflowed from Gu Nanzhao's fingertips, his fingering is not neat, but the faint sound of the piano is full of emotion.

The flame flickered and reflected Gu Nanzhao's face, and when the last note fell, the strings snapped.

"Tsk, why did it break?"

What was broken was not only the strings of the piano, but also the heart strings of that person.

"Gu Nanzhao, kill me! Kill me quickly!"

"Young master, why don't you commit suicide? Oh, look at my memory." Gu Nanzhao opened the man's mouth with his hands. "It's so pitiful. I have no teeth, and I can't even bite my tongue. I'm afraid you won't be able to climb up the city wall and jump down. In this case, you should take a good look at what Zhehe did to me back then. .”

"Gu Nanzhao, what are you talking about?"

"My lord has been naming me for a long time, don't you understand?"

The man gasped in shock, moved his lips and read out: Qi, Lan, Jia.

"It's down."

"Impossible, impossible!"

"Gu Nanzhao, it's absolutely impossible! Hahahahaha!" The man was already insane, and kept yelling at Gu Nanzhao. "You are Qi Lanjia? You are actually Qi Lanjia! I'm afraid you are not stunned. Knowing that the little emperor is in love with Qi Lanjia, he will deceive himself." The man's laughter faded away, and he was dull stand up.

"Impossible, you can't be Qi Langjia."

"Young master, let me tell you a big joke."

"From the first day of entering Yuanqi court, His Majesty secretly called me Brother Lanjia behind me."

"Impossible, impossible! So what is the matter of using the city to exchange people with me!"

"It's not a loss to exchange the city for my mother and concubine."

"Your Majesty has been listening to the piano in my garden for many days, but you spend the day in dire straits, you don't feel it, you don't feel it! The little emperor just wants to use your hand to do things, you are really pitiful, dying for others here , In the end, you won't get anything, so what if you are a Marquis, you don't even have real power."

"Gu Nanzhao, you are a joke. Even so, you are still utterly devoted to the little emperor. I'm afraid that after you go back, what awaits you is another cut of title, another talisman of surrender, and another prison sentence."

"So what." Gu Nanzhao said very flatly.

"If you are really Qi Langjia, you are not afraid that the little emperor will send troops to encircle and suppress you if you use Yuan Qi's troops to take back the old city of Quxia?!"

"Everywhere I go, and the city I fight, I will give it to him. My son, is this a good joke? By the way, let me tell you another joke, the commander of Zhehe Yunkun, died in the hands of his lieutenant general. hands."

The last straw for that man was also broken.

"The joke is over, son, you have to live well." Gu Nanzhao patted him on the shoulder. "Young master is available, live well."

After that, Gu Nanzhao supported the man for a good life, and used Maocheng as his base to go to the surrounding areas to make troubles every now and then, raising him while fighting.

……

After the little emperor received the news that Luo Beichuan reviewed Nanzhao's stay in Maocheng, there has been no movement for more than a month.

I couldn't stand it any longer.

"Your Majesty! It's just too ridiculous!" The Queen Mother led people to surround Nanzhao Hall.

"Also ask the queen to let the son go out." He was dressed in hard clothes and stood in front of the door with a sword in his hand.When he moved a step, the guard stopped him.

Those people belonged to the Empress Dowager, and the little emperor drew out his sword to confront them. "Get out of the way for Gu."

"Your Majesty!" The Empress Dowager walked up to the point of the little emperor's sword. "The war is not in a hurry. Why do you need your majesty to go on a personal expedition? You want to go to the whole Yuanqi and where."

"The crown prince has been established, why should my son be sorry for Yuan Qi?"

"Your Majesty, if you really go, with no one in the court under control, who else do you think will help Gu Nanzhao? Even if the food is not a problem now, he has already had the reputation of defecting once. Your Majesty still wants to Will the officials charge him with unwarranted charges?"

"Father, you don't need to provoke me. It's because the war is raging and the heroes are divided. The war outside the pass will not subside. Sooner or later, the cholera will reach Yuanqi. Winter is about to come. If Gu Nanzhao can't come back, he will have to die outside the pass. He is my Yuan General Qi Liang, my son said that if he died outside in battle, my son will definitely drag his body back with his own hands."

"Now that life and death are uncertain, my father will stop me later, for fear that he is really going to die outside. The new general has not yet come out, and General Pang is almost sixty years old. The father thinks that the son is so impulsive for him alone, and he is impulsive for Yuan Qi's soldiers. Forget it! My son is going to go out of this royal city today to gather troops."

The Empress Dowager was in a hurry, grabbed the guard's knife with both hands and pointed at the little emperor: "Your Majesty really wants to go out today, the Ai family doesn't mind attacking His Majesty."

Even though those people didn't dare to really hurt the little emperor, he was still in a panic when he escaped.The little emperor had experienced firsthand how Gu Nanzhao was forced to climb up the high wall of the palace gate on the day of his escape from the palace for rebellion.

Taking the army from the southwest to Maocheng, they finally arrived on the day of winter, and the fallen leaves were crushed by the sound of horseshoes, and several parties were fighting.Regardless of General Pang's obstruction, the little emperor took the lead and rushed to the forefront.

There were constant fighting sounds from the four corners, both defending and attacking, the formation took a "v" shape to engulf the tide of soldiers little by little, the little emperor was not Gu Nanzhao, he only killed and never let go, and those who surrendered were also killed with a single sword.Under the strong attack, they were able to enter the city, stepping on the corpses, and killing them from night to dawn the next day.

"Gu Nanzhao."

"Gu Nanzhao."

"Come out, Gu Nanzhao." His tone was very calm, but the knuckles of the sword holding the sword were whitish.

Shouting all the way to the city lord's mansion, I heard movement in the inner room, something seemed to break out of my chest, I pushed open the door full of hope, but what I saw was not the person I was looking for.

"Where is Gu Nanzhao?"

The wind was blowing, and the man was lying on the desk with his bare back, and the little emperor turned his head to the side not to look. "Where is Gu Nanzhao?"

The man smiled sarcastically: "Your Majesty, why don't you dare to look at me? I don't know how many people want the treasure map of the Quxia Kingdom on my back. Your Majesty doesn't want to read it, because he knows it's fake, hahahaha."

The little emperor ignored it and was going to look for it in the next place.

The man yelled, "He's dead!"

There was a churning in the abdomen, the sweet rusty smell went straight to the throat, and traces of blood spilled out of the corners of the mouth, the little emperor just wiped it off calmly: "Where is the corpse?"

"Who knows, I'm afraid it will turn into mud."

"Then I'll scoop it up in handfuls and bring them back."

"Kill me! Kill me!"

"Do you think you don't want to be alone, but he said that you can live well, and life is interesting." After finishing speaking, the little emperor left the room and began to search for the corpses one by one.

General Pang couldn't stand it, and tried to persuade him for a while, but he couldn't persuade him, so he had to bring others to search together, but the little emperor they had searched was also worried, and had to search again.

After rummaging through Maocheng, the little emperor noticed the Yuanqi flag on the city wall. He could no longer suppress his suppressed emotions, and roared over and over again: "Gu Nanzhao", his roar echoed in the wind.

When he found "Zhao Qing" on the city wall, he knelt down straight, covered his eyes with his hands and let out a "Ka Ka Ka" laugh.

Snowing.

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The author has something to say:

Originally... there are several w-words here to write about how this battle was fought, but I guess you don't want to read it, so let's condense it.