Chen Heng squatted beside the huge footprints, gestured, and grinned: "Fatty, who is better than you and Xiao Yijiu?"
Xiang Qingniu looked at his stomach annoyed, and he found that the golden belt would slide down under his stomach soon after it was fastened, and it was useless even if it was tied tightly. Seeing that he was only playing with the belt, Chen Heng couldn't help being curious: "Why do you insist on letting the belt be on your stomach, even if it slips under the stomach, so what..."
"Because I can't see under the belly!"
Xiang Qingniu said with some emotion: "I didn't pay attention to this belt when I was in the Sui Dynasty, because I didn't have to care about my status as a Daoist. But it's different when it comes to the grassland. I always want to make this belt more eye-catching. There is no need to show that you are different in your own family, but you can’t be fooled by your identity in front of outsiders, especially in front of the enemy. What I represent now is not myself, but a kind of dignity, do you understand?"
"so deep."
Chen Ha shook his head to express his incomprehension.
In desperation, Xiang Qingniu could only hold the harness with one hand and get on the horse, and then said to Chen Hun: "You ask me who is better than the senior brother, it's really hard to answer you. Before the senior brother was not crazy, I I definitely can't beat him. After the elder brother went crazy... I still might not be able to beat him."
He paused and said, "But I always feel that it is not madness, but a kind of detachment."
Although Chen Hun and Chen Ha were enlightened by Xiang Qingniu with his Dao heart, the things in his temperament still cannot be changed after all. Chen Heng couldn't help but chuckled and said: "Our brother was also crazy before, is it also detached?"
Xiang Qingniu frowned: "Bah, you are also crazy now."
Chen Hadao: "Fatty, you are being unreasonable. Our insanity is insanity, and your senior brother's insanity is detachment. According to you, our farts are farts, and your senior brother's farts are fragrances?"
Chen Heng said dissatisfiedly: "You use the word wrongly. Fart is one word, and fragrance is two words. It's not neat."
Chen Ha nodded in agreement, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't help becoming annoyed: "Then you want a word that corresponds to fart? Don't you just say it is gas? Fart is gas, and it is impossible for people to know the comparison of smell and smell. Do you want to use A word for fragrance? But when you say a word for fragrance, who would know that you are talking about Qi?”
Chen Heng looked at him like an idiot: "Idiot, can't you say two words? Fart and fragrance, this is neat."
"Brother is so knowledgeable!"
Chen Ha gave a heartfelt compliment.
Xiang Qingniu slapped his forehead: "I regret bringing you out now. If I stay with you for a long time, I'm afraid I will be stupid too."
"fart!"
Chen Heng said angrily, "It's crazy, not stupid!"
Chen Ha nodded: "Yes, is it crazy or not stupid... But brother, what is the difference between crazy and stupid?"
Chen Heng thought for a long time and opened his mouth a few times but didn't think of the right words, then he caught up with Xiang Qingniu: "Fatty, what's the difference between a lunatic and a fool?"
"The first word is different!"
Xiang Qingniu answered directly.
"Fatty, you are so knowledgeable!"
Chen Heng and Chen Ha both praised in unison.
Xiang Qingniu said in pain: "I feel like I've gone crazy... I'd better ask you two one thing, ask it very seriously, so you should try to answer me seriously. Because it's very important to what I'm going to do next. Decisions matter, so I need the truth from both of you."
"You ask."
"This westward journey was originally my own business, but I selfishly pulled you two together. Now that I have just realized my Dao Xin, I should let you go back to find Xiao Fangjie according to the logic, but I have never said it... because I After all, I’m still afraid of being alone. But I can’t bear it, because the path I’m taking now is very likely to lead to my own death, and if you continue to follow me, you’re also sending yourself to death…”
"He's crazy!"
Chen Ha looked at Xiang Qingniu with pity and said to Chen Heng: "Xiao Hum, he actually asked such an idiot question, he seems to be crazy? Does this need to be answered... Although you are going to kill the Buddhist sect The person in question has nothing to do with us, but we promised you, since what we promised, we must finish it, right?"
Chen Heng nodded: "Do I still need to ask, what do you think of our two brothers?"
"Be... friend... friend!"
Xiang Qingniu replied.
Chen Heng couldn't help laughing, and said to Chen Ha in a low voice: "I thought he would say that we were crazy, if he said that and we turned around and left, he must be an idiot."
"But he said he treated us as friends."
Chen Ha seemed a little depressed: "I'm most afraid of this answer."
Chen Heng nodded: "Me too... It's really troublesome. If you treat us as friends, we have to treat you as friends. It's too troublesome. We have to help you do what you want to do. It's even more troublesome..."
Xiang Qingniu sighed: "Can't you give me a more reliable answer?"
Chen Ha was silent for a long time, looked up at Xiang Qingniu and said seriously: "Your Dao heart is very powerful, you let us brothers understand many things, and you also remember many things you did before. When we were in the Central Plains, we killed A lot of people did a lot of evil, but in the end the person who could kill our two brothers didn't kill us, why?"
Chen Heng said: "Because we are pitiful."
Chen Hadao: "That's right, because that person thought we were crazy and foolish, and thought we were pitiful, so he didn't kill us. We are really lucky."
"but!"
Chen Heng said: "If you do something wrong, you are doing something wrong."
Chen Hadao: "So, we have to do something right now to make up for the wrong things in the past. If the two of us died, in the past, people in the world would say oh, what a happy event, those two lunatics Died at last. If I died with you westbound, people would mention it and say... oh, those two crazy people died... what a pity..."
Chen Heng asked: "Is this a reason?"
Xiang Qingniu nodded: "Yes!"
He rubbed his sore nose and touched the wine gourd by his waist. It was given to him at the top of Mangdang Mountain, and it contained half a pot of pear flower brewing. Fang explained that if he met Su Tugou on the west trip, he would give him the half jug of wine and tell him that Du Hongxian was still thinking about her man. Xiang Qingniu felt that the half jug of wine was heavy when he took it. Now he feels that the half jug of wine is still so heavy, but his mood has relaxed a lot.
Yeah, Westbound... It's not a sad story no matter how the process ends.
Su Tugou is voluntary, and so is Chen Hun and Chen Ha.
Three people and three horses were heading towards the west, and the setting sun dragged the shadows of the three people out for a long, long time. They walked side by side, talking crazy words, but smiling silly.
"Fatty, what do you think the sun that is about to set looks like?"
"Like a monkey butt!"
"Not like!"
"Why?"
"You are stupid... because you have no eyes!"
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When Fang Jie caught up with Wanyan Chongde's brigade, the battle in Xiping City became clear. Wanyan Chongde and his cavalry stationed behind a short hill about 60 miles away from Xiping City. This distance was actually not safe, and they might be spotted by rebel scouts at any time.
The imperial army had been attacking Xiping City for more than seven days. Li Yuanshan mobilized all the elite troops deployed in this area and tried to encircle the imperial army at first, but unfortunately, everything seemed to be out of Li Yuanshan's control now. Fang Jie could imagine how strong anger and unwillingness Li Yuanshan would feel at this time, and he could also imagine that the dying emperor must have a smug smile on his face.
According to Li Yuanshan's plan, after the imperial army is led to Xiping City, his elite will block the imperial army immediately, and then the rebels under Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan will also come immediately. The Sui army formed a siege. But before that, the Meng Yuan wolf rider who should have appeared behind the Sui army did not appear, and no one came. If it's just that the Meng Yuan wolf rider didn't show up, Li Yuanshan wouldn't be desolate, desperate and out of anger.
Meng Wansui did not come, neither did Yin Poshan.
Therefore, the number of rebels gathered near Xiping City is comparable to the imperial army, but their morale is completely incomparable. Although the emperor brought bravery, the morale of these brave men was like a rainbow. They all thought that Li Yuanshan had come to an end, and Li Yuanshan's people also thought so.
"It's so strange!"
Wanyan Chongde looked at the map puzzled and said: "The Meng Yuan wolf cavalry did not appear behind the Sui army, and Li Yuanshan's sharpest knife was not cut off. If the Meng Yuan people are sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, it can be explained. Kuo Ketai Menglie waited for Li Yuanshan and the imperial army to kill both sides before attacking. But why didn't Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan's rebels come? I have never figured out what's going on."
Fang Jie was silent for a while and said, "Actually, it's not hard to understand. Luo Yao put Li Yuanshan together first, and the hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in the left avant-garde didn't join the rebels in encircling the imperial court. Where is it, but Li Yuanshan has already lost an alliance. Then the Mengyuan people did not come, and Li Yuanshan lost another alliance. Because Li Yuanshan lost these two most important alliances, Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan lost confidence in Li Yuanshan. "
"They are no longer sure whether Li Yuanshan will win in the end, so they are reluctant to put their troops into it. They are really sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight..."
Wanyan Chongde said: "You mean, they are waiting for Li Yuanshan and the Sui Emperor to decide the outcome? If Li Yuanshan wins, they are still Li Yuanshan's people, and at that time Li Yuanshan must not have many troops in his hands. So I dare not fall out with the two of them. If the emperor wins, the two of them will immediately lead the army to encircle Li Yuanshan's remnants and swear allegiance to the court?"
"No."
Fang Jie shook his head: "Whether Li Yuanshan wins or the emperor wins, Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan will no longer be loyal to anyone... because the winning side must be extremely weak after the battle, and it is not as strong as the two of them. How could the two of them declare their allegiance to whom? No matter who is the winner, these two people will immediately pounce on them... Now, both of them understand that neither Li Yuanshan nor His Majesty the Emperor will accept them anymore, so they simply wait until When both losers, they will be the last winners!"
"Han people have a lot of twists and turns in their minds."
Wanyan Yunshu sighed: "Why is it all distrust?"
Fang Jie let out a long sigh of relief: "Because the chaos is complete, everyone feels that they have a chance to become the winner."
"Then what shall we do now?"
Wanyan Chongde asked.
Fang Jie said: "Keep our original purpose unchanged. We will wait until the last moment of the battle in Xiping City. We only have 3,000 cavalry, and we are involved in a battle involving millions of troops. There won't be a fight. Besides, we didn't come to fight in the first place."
He raised his head and looked in the direction of Xiping City: "I just came to do something that I must do. It has nothing to do with profit or future. It's just that I should do it."