Luo Yao didn't seem to be angry, as if he was used to this person's slightly disrespectful tone. In the entire Left Front Guard, this person seemed to be the only one who dared to chat with Luo Yao in this way. The first person under Luo Yao, the left forward, Zhan Yao, the head of the ten heroes of Luomen, was respectful and respectful in front of Luo Yao, and regarded Luo Yao as a mentor. Wen Xiaodao only dared to pout and show his temper when he was alone with Luo Yao.
And this person spoke like Luo Yao's old friend.
But it doesn't look like the two of them are friends.
"You should stay in Yongzhou."
Luo Yao withdrew his gaze from the man in black, and continued to read the half-turned book in his hand.
"Why?"
The man in black turned to look at him and asked.
"You stay in Yongzhou, huddled in your own room and tinker with any weird things you want. If you don't come to provoke me, I don't bother to talk to you. You just want to go north with the army. You are not afraid of killing me when I am in a bad mood. about you?"
"The general wants to kill me, not once or twice a year or two."
The man in black smiled and said, "I'm still alive and well? People who have followed the general for so many years will get a lot of favors as long as they don't die. For example, Zhan Yao is like Wen Xiaodao, so I can't die either. Wait until When General Long Deng Jiuwu sat on that big golden seat, if I hadn’t died, I might have been rewarded with great wealth. So I have to wait, I’m so greedy, how could I be willing to die.”
"If I want to kill you, why don't you give up?"
"The general is willing?"
The black-robed man followed up with a question, Luo Yao glanced at him and was speechless.
Seeing that Luo Yao didn't answer, the black-robed man didn't seem to want to provoke him any longer. After a pause, he changed the topic: "The matter of Huang Yangdao should be resolved as soon as possible. Although Yang Yanye dismissed Minyong, he has a very high prestige in the local area. If there is no guarantee that there will be no mistakes in the long run, although there is someone in the court who will help you, but that person is also a useless person, the most unreliable."
"You're wrong about that..."
Luo Yao said indifferently: "The most reliable relationship in this world has never been family and friendship, not brotherhood, monarch-subject relationship, but interests. People you think are not reliable, but I think they are the most reliable. Because he is very smart and knows Be prepared for everything. When I was strong, he was more loyal to me than anyone."
The man in black smiled and said: "If the general's trusted generals hear this, I'm afraid most of them will be chilled."
He walked slowly behind Luo Yao, looked at the huge map, stretched out his hand and stroked the map slowly: "How many people fought for the sake of pointing out the country on this map, how many people fought for it Holding the map with one hand and fighting to the death. Some people say that the most beautiful thing in this world is the rouge on the face of a beauty, but it seems petty no matter what. Looking at it from a distance and looking closely, this magnificent river and mountain is still the most beautiful However, it can be said that the most beautiful thing is the word "Quan" in the final analysis."
"General, how does power taste?"
He asked very seriously.
After being silent for a while, Luo Yao asked him: "When you get what you want most, you can experience that feeling."
The man in black sighed faintly: "Me? Hehe... I am doomed not to get what I want in this life."
Luo Yao's expression changed slightly, and he fell into silence again.
"If the general really wants to use Yin Poshan, what will Li Yuanshan say?"
The man in black changed the topic for the second time, which was just right.
"say what?"
Luo Yao raised his jaw slightly: "Do I need to explain to him? It's always just him begging me, not me begging him. I'm not interested in the exhausted land in the northwest, but he treats it as a treasure. With such a small ambition, how can I have the qualifications to deal with me. If there is one person in this world worthy of my admiration, that is His Majesty the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty... It's just that his luck is bad. If he was born in troubled times, his achievements He may not lose to Taizong, the great ancestor of the Sui Dynasty. He was too ambitious and too smart, but he misunderstood himself."
"The general always likes to set the ending for his opponents like this?"
The man in black asked.
"I have no opponent."
Luo Yao sighed slightly: "If the emperor was not seriously ill and lived as long as the late emperor, I would not dare to do what I want to do. But he is a person with a short life, so he has already lost the qualification to be my opponent. If it wasn't because he knew that time was running out, he wouldn't have rushed to fight against Meng Yuan in such a hurry. If the dream in a man's heart can't be realized before he dies, how regretful it is before he dies?"
"I never felt that the emperor did anything wrong... Although he lost the battle against Meng Yuan, the emperor may not have any regrets in his heart. After all, he fought this battle."
"You know the emperor well."
The man in black sighed and said: "The most fortunate thing in my life is that I didn't stand in front of the general. If you want to do something, no one can stop you. If you want to kill someone, no one can stop you. "
"you?"
Luo Yao shook his head: "You don't belong in the struggle, you are suitable for guarding your things and devoting yourself to cultivation."
"That was before."
The man in black changed his tone, a little sad: "Now what I'm guarding, change it to something else..."
"Don't say that!"
Luo Yao interrupted him: "You should go back to Yongzhou as soon as possible. No one in the mansion is watching. I am afraid that something will happen. Zhan Yao is an all-rounder, but because he respects me too much, he respects my family members so much. The same respect. If someone messes with power, he may not be able to control the scene."
"You can trust me?"
The man in black turned his head to look at Luo Yao and asked.
"letter."
Luo Yao answered with one word.
"I'm not going anywhere."
The black-robed man was silent for a while and said lightly: "I always feel that I can't wait until the day you put on the dragon robe, and maybe I can't survive this war either. So I will stay in the army and watch as long as I can."
Luo Yao was startled, opened his mouth and finally said nothing.
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On the north bank of the Huangniu River, a hundred miles away from the rebel camp. More than a dozen Huanglong clippers stopped in the middle of the river, and dozens of centipede clippers transported the soldiers on the Huanglong battleship to the north bank back and forth. These soldiers wore brand-new battle uniforms, and the crude weapons in their hands were uniformly replaced with the standard horizontal swords of the Sui Dynasty.
General Duan Zheng of the navy stood on the bow of the big ship, looking at the soldiers who were excited because of new clothes and equipment, but their faces were a little worried.
The lieutenant general beside him looked at the soldiers, and his eyes were also full of doubts: "General, with these people, can such a big thing really be achieved? You must know that the rebel camp has at least 200,000 troops, and among them There is no lack of elites. Yin Poshan is one of the seven heroes under Li Yuanshan. Since Li Yuanshan entrusts him with such a large property, Yin Poshan is definitely not a rich man. With these untrained civilians, they are really capable. ?”
Duan Zheng shook his head: "Maybe this is an opportunity... When Fang Jie came to me, I didn't think he could do it. But when I saw these soldiers, I realized that I was wrong. Maybe not as good as our soldiers who can fight and kill people, and not as good at commanding and dispatching as our soldiers. But compared with our soldiers, they are more pure... "
A few days ago, Fang Jie secretly found him and discussed a big matter with him. When Duan Zheng just finished listening to Fang's explanation, he felt in his heart that this young man was simply whimsical. But seeing these vigorous Min Yong, he knew why Fang Xie's confidence was so abundant.
"These soldiers are all local people of Huangyang Road. To be honest, we soldiers who are paid by the imperial court can accept defeat because we have a way out, and we can fight back if we lose. But they can't, they are defeated, they family, relatives and friends will fall into disaster, and their homes will be destroyed... "
The lieutenant general sighed: "I still don't believe that the rebels and Luo Yao's people can fight with these thousands of people's bravery?"
"Whether it is possible or not, Fang Jie and these brave people are worthy of admiration!"
Duan Zheng looked at Minyong who landed one after another, and his tone was full of respect: "Fang Jie is only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he is more courageous than you and me. It doesn't matter whether he can do it or not, he dares to do it." Doing it is better than you and me. You and I both know that Luo Yao, Chen Bing, and Huang Yangdao are not necessarily for the rebels, but they can only watch helplessly and can’t do anything. If it is done, then the great cause of countering the rebellion will immediately become smooth Shun Shui, if it doesn’t work out, at least they fought for it.”
The deputy general was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "When I first heard about Fang Jie, I didn't feel that he was worthy of respect if he was outstanding in the nine disciplines or a genius. Now I know why His Majesty values him so much. .”
"I hope he succeeds."
Duan Zheng clenched his fists: "Our navy has been useless for so long. We can't move ourselves, so we can only hope for Fang Jie. The navy wants to cruise the river, and there is not much support for him. Four thousand sets of armor I can still take out weapons, give them as much hard bows and crossbows as I can, and give them as much supplies as I can... No one knows how many of these four thousand people will come home alive."
When he said this, Duan Zheng's tone was a bit sad.
yes
These four thousand Minyong who crossed the river in order to defend their homes, how many people will die for the four words of defending the soil? The south bank of the river is their hometown, but how many people will bury their bones in a foreign land across the river and never go back
"Bon voyage, brothers!"
Duan Zheng clasped his fists with a solemn expression.
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After Fang Jie returned to Shanziying, he asked Chen Qianshan to assemble Shanziying without delay. No matter what Luo Yao's plan is, he must cross the river. It would be great if Luo Yao had originally planned to attack the rebels. If Luo Yao is unwilling to use troops, then at least he can leave.
When he walked out of Luo Yao's big tent, Luo Yao said that even if he left, he would still go back sooner or later. But from the moment Fang Jie planned to leave, he never planned to come back. Luo Yaoxu gave him a very beautiful future, but what Fang Jie got was not what Fang Jie wanted.
By Luo Yao's side, Fang Xie always felt that he was not a loving father but a fierce tiger. This feeling became clearer and stronger especially when Luo Yao was kind to him. There seemed to be a voice in his heart constantly reminding him, don't believe Luo Yao's words, you can't believe a single word!
Does a person like Luo Yao really value family affection so much
The biggest contradiction is Luo Wu himself. If Luo Yao really cared about his son so much, why did he have to kill him in the first place? In order to show his loyalty to the emperor, he could kill his own son. To put it bluntly, don't you want to protect yourself? If such things happen in the future, will Luo Yao hesitate to kill people
And Fang Jie always felt that there must be other reasons why Luo Yao was so obsessed with resurrecting Luo Wu.
So he won't give up if he has a chance, and he has to leave.
If the Sui Dynasty was doomed to chaos, Fang Jie was never afraid of chaos.
The 1,200 soldiers from Shanzi Battalion assembled and rode their horses to line up on the south bank of the Yellow Niu River. Putting on his iron armor, Fang Jie rode a red horse and slowly walked to the front of the queue.
He pointed to the north bank of the river and asked loudly: "Do you dare to kill people?!"
Chen Qianshan took his head and answered loudly: "Dare!"
The neat shouts resounded through the sky, full of murderous aura. Over the past few days, the soldiers have recognized the solution. They knew that this young general was someone worth following, although most of them did not think that Fang Jie might be leading them on a one-way street with no return path.
When you utter the dare word, you are doomed to move forward.
Fang Jie nodded: "Then kill me."