Butcher
This word is flying on the battle flag that has been changed.
Ye Jinnan didn't know why he felt so uncomfortable in his heart, so he simply turned his eyes away from the battle flag and stopped looking at it. Tu Huan stood on the city wall and looked into the distance and didn't know what he was thinking. Ye Jinnan felt unwell With an excuse, he retreated first. When he was going down to the city, he looked back at the big flag fluttering in the wind, as if he saw that the word "Tu" turned into a human face, still grinning ferociously.
Ye Jinnan didn't seem to have been blocked like this before when the big flag had Luo characters on it.
Although Luo Yao is dead, at least this flag can bring back many people's memories. When people look at this flag, they will think of the glory of the past. But now looking at the banner with the word "slaughter", everyone feels so strange. It's as if I never belonged to this team, and never spilled blood for this flag.
When coming down from the city wall, Ye Jinnan felt a little top-heavy. He told himself that maybe he really caught the wind, but he forgot that he hadn't been sick for many years.
He lives in an unremarkable house in Liuzhou City. When Tu entered the city, he was assigned a big house but he refused. For some reason, he now dislikes publicity more and more. There is always an illusion that if you appear in front of people, you will be pointed at by others, and there is always a chill down your spine for a while.
He used to walk in the crowd wearing iron armor and riding a tall horse, and he always had a sense of pride that a soldier should have. This sense of pride has never disappeared, no matter when holding the banner of the left avant-garde or the banner of Luo. Now Ye Jinnan tried his best to regain that pride, but failed again and again.
Walking on the unfamiliar streets of this strange city, seeing passers-by looking at him with fearful and disgusting eyes, Ye Jinnan suddenly wanted to cry.
His residence is in an inconspicuous alley. This house was originally the home of a sixth-rank lieutenant in the Liuzhou garrison. Coincidentally, this lieutenant died at the hands of Ye Jinnan, but Ye Jinnan Doomed not to know this detail. The defenders of Liuzhou were still flying the flag of the Sui Dynasty. When the Tu army attacked the city, the defenders resisted extremely fiercely. It is a pity that this city, which was once marked as a strategic location on the map of the Sui Dynasty, has already been destroyed. Things are different, and the local wealthy families are unwilling to pay to support soldiers, but Tongu Academy sent people several times to order the Liuzhou garrison to be recruited, but they were rejected.
Ye Jinnan thought of the dead bodies on the city wall, and suddenly felt that those soldiers who hadn't received military pay for at least two or three years were much more proud than himself. At the very least, those soldiers knew why they fought and why they died, and Ye Jinnan had already lost his way at this time.
Not only him, but the army has lost its way.
Perhaps, at this time, only the person named Tu knew what he was going to do.
When the gate of the courtyard was pushed open, two disabled veterans hurried up to meet him, one led the horse away for him, and the other dusted off the dirt on his body with a duster.
"General, why did you come back so early today?"
The veteran who lost his right arm asked with a smile. He was only too concerned with dusting off Ye Jinnan and didn't notice the sadness in Ye Jinnan's eyes. Speaking of which, in the entire Tu army, only Ye Jinnan's subordinates still kept some disabled soldiers. When Jiangbei retreated, almost all the wounded soldiers were ordered to be abandoned by Tu.
No matter how cold-blooded Luo Yao was, he never made such a decision.
"There's nothing wrong with the camp, so come back earlier."
Ye Jinnan answered absently, and then walked into the room.
"By the way, General, not long after you went to Daying this morning, General Mu Li came here once, and he went back when he heard that you had gone to Daying. I remember you mentioned last time that Mu Li kept complaining about illnesses. Is he recuperating, but today he doesn't look like a sick person, but the sorrow between his brows is too strong."
"I'm tired, I'll go back to bed first."
Ye Jinnan was not in the mood to talk, nor did he want to ask Mu Li why he came here. He understood Mu Li's thoughts a long time ago.
Of the original ten heroes of Luomen, only three are still alive. If Tu is not counted, only him and Muli are left.
Those who were the most eye-catching under Luo Yao's command all died in battle one after another. Zhan Yao, the head of the Ten Heroes of Luomen, died in Yongzhou. Ye Jinnan still doesn't know how Zhan Yao died. Wen Xiaodao, Duan Bianbao, Duan Bianxiong, Zhu Quan, Cui Lunhai, and the mysterious General Mo were all dead.
Ye Jinnan had dreamed of ten of them riding behind Luo Yao many times at night, even Wen Xiaodao, whom he hated the most, seemed so kind in his dreams. The dream was so real, as clear as what happened yesterday. Every dream has the same picture, lingering.
On the day of departure from Yongzhou, Luo Yao pointed his finger to the north while riding his horse and asked, "Do you know why we are going to the north?"
Everyone didn't dare to guess randomly, so they waited for Luo Yao to say.
Luo Yao pointed in the direction of Chang'an City and said, "I am greedy for secular power because if I am not greedy, I cannot benefit you. Only when my power grows stronger, can you get more and more. Then what do you say? , what should I do to give you the most benefits?"
"Be the emperor!"
The outspoken Duan Bianxiong yelled at the top of his voice, and Luo Yao laughed loudly: "You are all my soldiers, if I don't benefit you, who will I give it to?"
This word, this picture.
Appeared in Ye Jinnan's dreams countless times.
He kicked off his boots and lay on the bed looking at it but didn't feel sleepy.
"General, General Mu Li is here again..."
Someone outside the door said something softly, and then waited for his answer. Ye Jinnan frowned, he didn't want to see Mu Li, but finally sat up and said: "Please go to the living room, I'll be there soon."
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"This is my second time here today."
Mu Li glanced at Ye Jinnan, then lowered his head to look at the steam rising from the hot tea in his hand. Only then did Ye Jinnan realize that Mu Li looked so much older. We must know that Mu Li was a famous handsome man among the generals of the Left Front Guard back then, and he was also a famous Confucian general. This person was originally a scholar, and he carried a bookish air in every gesture, but he was cold and direct on the battlefield. Luo Yao once said that he had the style of Li Xiao.
But now, Mu Li's temples are covered with white hair.
"I know I can't persuade you."
Mu Li lowered his head, and his tone was a little desolate: "You have an obsession in your heart, and you have always forced yourself to look at the current team as the general's team. You are afraid that once you deny this obsession that you carefully guarded, I can no longer go back to the past, but... In fact, I can't go back to the past."
Mu Li took a sip of tea: "I wanted to persuade you before because I hadn't given up on this team and wanted to go back to the past. Today I'm not here to persuade you, it's because I have already given up."
He glanced at Ye Jinnan: "I'm here to say goodbye to you, I'm leaving."
"Walk?!"
Ye Jinnan fiercely turned his head to look at Mu Li: "Where are you going?"
"Where to go is not important, the important thing is that I have no intention to stay here anymore."
Moisture moistened Mu Li's eyes, and his head drooped even lower: "Actually, from the day Duan Bianbao was calculated to die, I wanted to leave. He only wanted to avenge Duan Bianxiong, In the end, I was sent to the grave like a fool, and my death is really not worth it... It's just that I can't let it go, I always feel that this is still the general's team, if I leave, how can I be worthy of the general's cultivation and trust for so many years ?”
"Now, the word Luo on the banner is gone."
Mu Li paused for a moment, shook his head and smiled: "Do you still remember when ten of us followed the general out of Yongzhou? I have dreamed of that scene countless times..."
Ye Jinnan opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
"It will always be fine. If you leave like this, what will happen to your subordinates? There are still many old brothers who have followed you through life and death for many years. If you leave like this, who cares about them?"
"That's why I'm here today."
Mu Li raised his head, looked at Ye Jinnan and said solemnly: "If you still recognize me as a brother, do me a favor... Tomorrow your subordinates will be guarding the gate, and I plan to take them with me on the pretext of going out of the city for training. As long as you help me delay it for an hour, it only takes an hour."
"I… "
Ye Jinnan hesitated to speak, and finally sighed silently.
"Things are different."
Mu Li got up and was about to leave: "Actually, I thought about it before I came here. If I told you the truth, then tomorrow morning might be the death date for me and my veterans. I know you, but I still don't want to lie to you .Actually, if I don’t tell you, no one will suspect tomorrow when I go out to the city for training. I just want to tell you... Jinnan, is this team, this team with the banner of massacre, worthy of your defense?”
Ye Jinnan shook his head: "You go, I'll pretend you haven't been here before."
Mu Li smiled bitterly, turned around and walked out the door.
"Go west. If you are lucky enough to bypass the battlefield between Yang Jian and Tonggu Academy, go back to the southwest. Although I don't know Fang Jie very well, I believe he is someone who can take you in. At worst, you can still go home... I heard that Fang Jie distributed the fields to the people in the southwest, and the people's life is very good. If you don't want to hold a knife after you go back, you should be able to change a hoe... "
Ye Jinnan looked at Mu Li's back and said.
"go home?"
Mu Li smiled sadly: "The home is long gone..."
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Outside Liuzhou City
Several people crouched in the grass looked at the flag on the city wall, the leader's eyes flickered, and then he became relieved: "After following for so long, I finally know who those firearms fell into..."
He turned over and lay down, his clothes were covered with dust.
"Leader, we have been following here from Muping, and finally we know who is trading with foreigners. I thought it was people from the Mu family who were about to enter the game, but it turned out that they had nothing to do with the people from the Mu family."
said a young man.
"maybe."
The person known as the regiment leader rubbed the corners of his wrinkled eyes and said: "Following here, our business is basically done. What we need to do now is to send the news back as soon as possible to let the lord know. It's something to be happy about." It’s just that we’re not too far away from the southwest, and more than half of the distance has come here unknowingly. Xiao Duzi, you and Da Lei hurry back, and I will stay with people.”
The young man named Xiao Duzi was puzzled: "I've already found out everything, why didn't the group leader go together?"
"I can't go."
The man known as the regiment leader shook his head: "I always feel that there will be more gains if I stay. The value of our Xiaoqi School's existence is to inquire about the Lord's news. If we encounter such a big event now, if we have to withdraw it hastily , I am not reconciled. You go now, if you can contact our people along the way, let them come to support me."
He turned over and looked towards Liuzhou: "I want to explore this place!"