"I haven't figured it out yet..."
Mou Liangbi looked at the pipe hanging by Fang Jie's waist, and stretched out his hand to hand it to him. Fang Jie didn't refuse either. He untied it, stuffed the tobacco and lit it. He took a puff and handed it to Mo Liangbi: "I don't want to understand what?"
"You obviously didn't know that I was going to kill you, so why did you suddenly realize it? It's only a day, and my advantage is fleeting. How did you think of it? I did seem a little anxious to invite you to the cottage for a drink, but it doesn't prove that I was determined to kill you. Why did you win even though the advantage was in my hands?"
"Because you don't know your opponent."
Fang Jie smiled lightly: "I have a question for you, do you know how many people in this world can reach the ninth rank or higher in martial arts?"
Mou Liangbi shook his head: "I don't know much about martial arts, but I've heard people say that there are probably no more than a hundred people above the ninth rank in the whole world. If a practitioner reaches the ninth rank, he has the power to move mountains and fill seas." , has the ability to travel thousands of miles in a blink of an eye, kills like a backhand, and takes a life like a bag, even His Majesty must treat each other with courtesy."
"It's not that exaggerated, but the ninth-rank masters are indeed very strong. I don't know how many people in the world have reached the ninth-rank masters. I only know that I have two ninth-rank masters under my command. You send people to guard against it, and you can prevent the army The scouts in the village, but they can't prevent the ninth-rank masters from visiting the camp. On the night you sent people to invite me to the stronghold, my people went into the stronghold to investigate and found that you imprisoned Mo Liangbi. And my subordinates are not only martial arts A strong man, and a wise man named Sun Kaidao. He saw at least three doubts from the fact that you invited me to drink, and thus deduced that His Majesty may have a purpose."
"You imprisoned Cui Zhongzhen, which is the biggest mistake. If Cui Zhongzhen is still free, maybe I will really come to the appointment."
Mou Liangbi was stunned, and then shook his head: "Then you send someone to contact Wanyan Chongde, and make an agreement to let him play a show for you to hold me back. Then let someone pretend to be an imperial envoy to announce the decree in public. This is the truth in the art of war." Really attack its unpreparedness, admiration."
"You're welcome."
Fang Jie said: "If you don't want to kill me, why would I want to kill you? I took people to retreat to Fan Gu, but I didn't want to get into trouble with you. I had persuaded myself not to do it about the rebel army's West Camp. You care about it. But you just feel that I don’t feel at ease if you don’t get rid of it, so you can’t blame yourself. These four words are most suitable for you. "
Mou Liangbi laughed at himself: "If Your Majesty's will is not fulfilled, I have no intention of killing you. You should know what I am most looking forward to, so it is indeed forced by the situation to kill you. I am different from you. You are still young and I am already fifty years old. If you can’t make a comeback on the Northwest battlefield, even if you return to the capital, you will end up as a commoner. I have been in prison for more than ten years before I have the chance to revive my old ambitions. Maybe give up?"
Fang Jie said: "What do you mean by that, I have reason to forgive you?"
Mou Liangbi said seriously: "What I mean by this is that I have a reason to kill you."
Because of the cold, Mou Liangbi took a puff of his pipe, but his body trembled even more: "Now I finally know what the former sages meant when they said that there are talented people from generation to generation. I am not old yet, and I am already inferior to you young people." Li Xiaozong is vicious enough, and you are decisive enough, I am inferior in both of these two points."
Fang Jie said: "Don't blame yourself, this is a waste of your few time."
"I want to be a sensible ghost."
Mou Liangbi was silent for a while and tentatively asked: "It's useless for you to kill me, why don't you let me advise you. Even if I'm in a cage, as long as I don't die, I can still help you understand many things. And the soldiers will say that you are lenient." Ren, what do you think?"
Fang Jie sighed: "How much I want you to point at my nose and yell at me, and then die generously... In that case, I will think of you occasionally in the future, and I will praise you for being a character."
Mou Liangbi shook his head: "Who is not afraid of death?"
Fang Jie hummed: "I will be a little disappointed because you didn't die generously, but I won't look down on you because you are afraid of death. There is only one life, don't say you really die, just think carefully about death in your spare time This will scare a lot of people.”
"If you were me at this time, would you beg for mercy?"
Mou Liangbi asked.
Fang Jie said with a smile: "The first thing I want to tell you is that I am also afraid of death. If I think about it carefully, I may be more afraid of death than you. But the difference between you and me is that when I know that death is certain, I will never die. Will beg for mercy. Human dignity has been trampled on and there is not much left, if you can't die in a dignified and solemn way, what a pity?"
Mou Liangbi was silent and said nothing more.
Fang Xie stood up, handed the small bag containing shredded tobacco to Mou Liangbi, and then took off his cloak to cover him: "I will send someone to bring food and drinks later, you can tell me what you want to eat now."
"You can have wine and meat."
Mou Liangbi answered.
Fang Jie nodded, turned around and walked out of the cave.
"Fang Jie, can I ask you something."
Looking at Fang Xie's back, Mou Liangbi said.
Fang Jie stopped but didn't look back: "You ask."
"Do you really have no desire for military power? With this military power, you really only serve for the court? Are you really loyal to His Majesty? Do you really have no ambition in your heart?"
Fang Jie laughed and walked out.
"you guess?"
He smiled and said two words, and strode away without talking to Mo Liangbi.
Mou Liangbi watched the figure of the young man disappear from sight, and after a long silence he let out a long sigh of relief: "I lost, is it because my wish is too small?"
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Mou Liangbi is dead.
After all, he still didn't make up his mind to hit the rock by himself, so he asked the Feiyupao who was guarding the door for help. The flying fish robe looked at him with some contempt, pointed to the large and small stones in the cave and said: "You choose one yourself, this is the only thing you can choose now."
Mou Liangbi searched for a long time, the more he looked at it, the paler his face became. At the end, his hands and feet were trembling uncontrollably, and he vomited out all the food and wine he had just eaten. Seeing how badly he vomited, the Feiyupao couldn't help but shook his head: "I wanted to scold you for committing suicide, but after all, you are a big man, and it would be against morality to be humiliated by others before you die, so I resisted not scolding, but the way you look so fucking makes me angry... The more reluctant you are, the more frightened you feel, you might as well just be happy."
Mou Liangbi wiped his mouth, and after a while pointed to a stone the size of a watermelon and said, "That's it."
Fei Yupao nodded and said, "Well, if you're afraid, just close your eyes, it's only for a moment."
Mou Liangbi took off the cloak Fang Jie gave him, then sat up straight and closed his eyes: "Please be quick, thank you!"
"You're welcome."
Fei Yupao walked over to pick him up, and slammed his head against the stone wall twice.
Blood spurted out immediately, staining a large piece of red on the stone wall.
The Fei Yupao threw Mou Liangbi's body on the ground, and said to himself, "You fucking think I'm stupid. How can someone who commits suicide choose to be hit by a rock as big as his ass to death? Idiots can see this kind of thing." It turns out that there is a problem, if I fall for your tricks, won't the Feiyu robe be worn for nothing these past few years?"
He clapped his hands, turned and left.
It was too cold in the northwest. Although the wind in the cave was not strong, the corpse soon became cold and stiff. Lying there upright, the blood on his head soon turned to ice. Sustaining life is a very long process, but losing life is so short, just a second.
On the second day, Fang Jie had the troops re-registered and made a list. After counting the number of soldiers in each battalion, he asked all the officers of rank six and above to gather in the school grounds. There are tens of thousands of people in the team, and there are hundreds of people above the sixth rank. According to the military system of the Sui Dynasty, the brigade and brigade were all officers, but they were not admitted. Lieutenant Guo Yi, who leads a regiment of 300 people, is from the seventh rank. This is registered by the imperial court and receives the imperial salary.
Because this team is a collection of disabled soldiers, the number of officers is much larger than that of a normal army. After all, in the massacre back then, the survival rate of generals was far higher than that of ordinary soldiers. This is a very cruel fact. The most basic reason is not only that the generals have higher personal qualities, but also because they have better armor. The leather armor on Lieutenant Guo Yi's body is more than twice as thick as that of ordinary soldiers, and it also has a protective goggle.
The world is full of hierarchies, and it's easy for those at the bottom to live with complaints. There are extreme people who think that they are all the same. Why do you enjoy much better treatment than me? Such people often live in such complaints all their lives, and even become more and more unbearable. They ignore that the reason why others enjoy these treatments is because others work harder than him.
This world is ruthless, so it is relatively fair.
Fang Jie stood on the high platform and looked at these people, these people who would follow him through life and death in the future. He was silent for a long time without opening his mouth, so that the people below looked at each other and wondered what the new leader was thinking.
"I haven't experienced that war, but I know that it is not easy for each of you to survive."
After being silent for a long time, Fang Jie finally spoke, his tone was very low: "You are all officers. After thinking about it carefully, you may find that the reason you are alive may be because your former subordinates desperately rescued you. Therefore, you must first do The most important thing is to treat your soldiers well. And now I am standing at the top here, and my life and death will be decided by you in the future, so... I will treat you as you treat your own subordinates."
"It has been nearly three years since that great war. During this time, many people have died, and someone will die in the future. Maybe it's one of you, or maybe it's me standing here. Those who saw the imperial decree yesterday At that time, I suddenly felt very panic, because I was afraid that I would not be able to lead you and protect you. I thought about it for a long time, and told myself that the best way for you to survive is to stay here and wait until the imperial army recovers the entire northwest."
"However, waiting for someone to save you is always just hope. You have been away from home for three years, are you homesick?"
he asks.
The people below fell silent, and after a while, a captain said a word in a low voice: "I want to!"
Fang Jie nodded: "I don't have a home, but I also miss Chang'an City. If we want to go back, we have to do something to make this rebellion end as quickly as possible. When I was in Fan Gu, what I thought was that I I must guard this small city, because those Mongolian barbarians must go here when they retreat, and I have no other ideas about these beasts who killed my relatives and took my property, except to speak with a knife."
"But now, I have more people like you under my command, so I have to think about your life and death."
Fang Jie was silent for a while, then raised his head and said solemnly, "If you can trust me, follow me to fight a few beautiful battles. Then return to your hometown with all the glory and reunite with your relatives."
"General, tell us what to do!"
Someone shouted.
Fang Jie looked at these people and said seriously: "Just one thing... wherever I point the horizontal knife, you will follow me to kill. I promise, that is the direction you will go home."