The person who came was the Emperor of Xixia.
Gu Yuanbai looked at him for a while, then raised the corners of his lips, revealing an indifferent smile. Li Angyi wiped the blood from the top of his head and sighed softly, "For the sake of my appearance, please send a military doctor to heal me."
Gu Yuanbai said, "Someone."
Two quarters later, the wound on Li Angyi's head was simply bandaged. Dong Lingwei was Li Angyi who was discovered on the battlefield. At that time, he was being crushed under the corpse of a horse, just an arm's length away from the abyss of cracks.
The candlelight in the tent was swayed by the cold wind, and the faces of the emperors of the two countries showed a dark and unknown light and shadow.
Li Angyi didn't have to think too much to know how many soldiers and horses would be stationed in front of the camp. Tens of thousands of people guarded him. Even if Li Angyi had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to escape from the Daheng military camp.
He sighed again, simply relaxed, leaned back on the chair, and looked at Gu Yuanbai like a long-lost friend, "You don't seem to be hurt."
Gu Yuanbai straightened his robes, and when he heard the words, his eyelids twitched, half a smile, "It is indeed better than you."
"Destiny is unpredictable," Li Angyi said with a helpless look in his eyes. He was absent-minded for a moment, then suddenly said, "The moon is beautiful tonight, why don't we go out for a walk together?"
The guards in the tent were tense, and held the saber around his waist.
Gu Yuanbai got up immediately, "Let's go."
*
The moonlight was in the sky, but the Daheng military camp had not yet fallen into a deep sleep. Soldiers with torches were patrolling around, and the disaster relief was orderly.
Li Angyi glanced at the high hanging bright moon, and said leisurely: "After the natural disaster, the moonlight is still so bright, it is really ruthless. The earth dragon turned over too suddenly, but it descended when you and I were on a personal expedition. It sounds like It does have the meaning of punishment by ghosts and gods."
Gu Yuanbai stepped over the gravel and said slowly, "You don't believe it."
"I believe," Li Angyi tilted his head and looked at Gu Yuanbai deeply, "I believe it very much."
Gu Yuanbai narrowed his eyes.
"Before I went to Daheng, you may have heard my saying that my life is hard," Li Angyi smiled slightly, with a hint of sarcasm. It really makes me sad."
Gu Yuanbai didn't say a word, and Li Angyi didn't want to make him agree. He just whispered what he wanted to say: "You may not know, I was born in a thatched hut. Her mother's status was low, but she was lucky enough to be pregnant with a dragon seed. She was afraid that someone would destroy her way to the sky, and she hid in the hut to eat and drink every day. Under the avoidance of her, those snakes and scorpions in the harem actually didn't find her."
"But a lowly court lady hides from a concubine in the palace and gives birth to a lowly second prince, which makes people think that she is so ignorant," Li Angyi sighed, looking indifferent and indifferent, as if the person in the words was not his biological mother. "Ambition is bigger than ability, and acting is so disgusting, who will die if she doesn't die?"
"The second prince, who is mixed with blood and stench in the thatched hut, really deserves to die."
"Because he is too dirty." Li Angyi said.
Gu Yuanbai said lightly, "Your mother-in-law has been named the queen mother by you now."
Li Angyi smiled, "Because she has one," said playfully, "a good son with a hard life."
"Don't worry, I haven't finished my words yet," Li Angyi put his hands in front of him, and his slightly curly black hair was clotted with blood, "I have had a hard time growing up since I was a child. The people are worried. Three meals a day, I was worried about food and food, and I was worried about my life. Just talking about these hands," he picked up his hands and flashed them in front of Gu Yuanbai, "These hands were once trampled under the feet of the imperial concubine in the palace. Because she felt that the stones were stubborn, she asked me to pave the road for her. The stone road was not long, but when I was young, I thought it would not end. I still remember the scene at that time. On the ground, like a dog, when the lady in the palace lifts her back foot, I have to quickly put the hand that was stepped on in front of me, and let the lady step on my hand in time, and the cycle starts again and again."
"Do you know why this mother-in-law treats me like this? Because I was so tough and lucky, I was born from my lowly mother-in-law five days before her son was born. The second prince of Xixia."
Li Angyi said to himself: "It's right that she sees me as unhappy."
"People are either forced to live or to power, and they always have to do things they don't want to do," Li Angyi stopped, and the cold wind blew through everyone's robes, "These things are good. There is something bad that forces you to move forward step by step. If you don't do it, you won't be able to live. No one wants to live, don't you want to live? Naturally, you want to live. How many hardships. The most troublesome thing in life should be the loss of power and this weak body. You can discover the problem of spices so quickly, and notice the discomfort of your body so quickly. You should know how much it is to think of living like this strong."
Gu Yuanbai remained silent.
The cold wind blew the hair on his temples, and there were small wounds rubbed by the stones on the side of his face.
Li Angyi smiled wryly with the wind, and he said softly, "I want to live, and be seen as a human being."
"I want to wear clothes that fit my status as a prince, I want to eat at the table, I want others to throw a steamed bun into the thatched hut and let me pick it up and eat it," Li Angyi, "Well, I have to To be honest, no matter how delicious the food rolls around in the hut, it is hard to swallow."
Gu Yuanbai looked at him. He stood in front of the broken tiles and rubble, and there seemed to be a faint glow in his eyes. His Majesty the emperors of the two countries looked at each other quietly.
The smile on Li Angyi's face subsided, and he became expressionless.
The Seventh Prince of Xixia is handsome, Li Angyi and Li Angshun are three-pointed alike, but his appearance is much more ordinary. After restraining the smile, an unusual gloomy and gloomy expression appeared on the ordinary face, "I first learned to be a beast before I can live in the filthy Xixia harem. On that gravel road, my hands were trampled by the harem. The blood was flowing, and she could not wait to abolish my hand. And the maid beside her scolded me for dirtying the stone road, and gave me five slaps in public. When I wiped off the blood with the clothes on my chest and back, I Decided, I have to be a person."
"Be a real person, someone who can take revenge on all those who beat me," Li Angyi said with a sullen face, "Who are the people in the harem most afraid of becoming emperor? They are most afraid of me. Because only I have suffered Everyone's bullying, everyone wants to drag me down, because they know that as long as I get ahead, they will die."
"The eldest prince is arrogant and treats me as a slave. He deserves to die. The third prince is gentle, but he let me eat hot incense in private. Both he and his mother deserve to die. As for the Seventh Prince, scoff, an idiot is an excellent spear."
Li Angyi: "Guess what they looked like after I became emperor?"
Gu Yuanbai: "I guess, they are scared."
Li Angyi couldn't help laughing out loud, his chest was stuffy, and his back was crooked with laughter, "You're right."
The grease on the torch exploded, the sparks were blown away, and it burned violently.
Li Angyi straightened up and lowered his voice: "But I finally became a man, and now I lose again."
"I naturally believe in the sky, but the sky doesn't care for me!" The blood in Li Angyi's eyes slowly rose, "It won't let me live well! I exhausted all my hard work, my tens of thousands of troops, millions of taels The silver, the entire Xixia is under my control and will be slowly resurrected in my hands, but the heavens will not let me do this!"
He pointed at Gu Yuanbai fiercely and shouted: "The sky is the one who favors you! What have you suffered? The people and officials love you, you will have whatever you want! Even if you want my life, I have to break one. Your legs are on your own!"
The guards, Dongling guards and the soldiers pulled out their big swords and spears, surrounded Gu Yuanbai in an instant, and pointed sharply at Li Angyi.
The cold light jumped, and the fire flashed dangerously.
Li Angyi's excited emotions calmed down in an instant, and he still smiled bitterly, "The sky is in trouble, you are fine, but I am in the enemy's camp. This is all God's will, my life. Gu Lian," he said. Gently, word by word, "I didn't lose to you, I lost to the sky."
"God wants me to die, I have to die."
Gu Yuanbai didn't suddenly laugh until this moment, and he said with joy and anger: "Do you think you lost to me or Tian?"
Li Angyi said calmly, "Yes."
"Then I want you to see who you lost to," Gu Yuanbai turned around, his robes fluttering along with his strides, "Take him."
*
On the second day after the earthquake, Gu Yuanbai led the army outside the Xixia army station.
The Xixia people were terrified, the city gate was tightly closed, and there were densely packed Xixia soldiers standing on the city wall.
Xixia did not have enough medicine for wounds. Because of the ambush at the rear, there were 20,000 or 30,000 wounded soldiers. In addition, the disappearance of the Xixia Emperor, the generals of Xixia were anxious, and led people to follow the emperor's trail all night. They didn't even have time to search for food. The soldiers who were intact and uninjured were led out by the generals. In this city, all were injured Xixia. people.
Looking at the Daheng Army, which was far away from the range, despair gradually grew in their hearts, who had not entered a drop of water after the earthquake.
Why was the Daheng people able to raise their troops to Xixia City on the second day after the earthquake
Gu Yuanbai was wearing armor. He looked at the city gate and said calmly, "General Zhang, pass on my words."
Zhang Hu said that the general took orders, "Yes!"
Gu Yuanbai said: "People in the city, I know that you are all wounded soldiers in the city."
Zhang Hucheng raised his voice and spread the words to the Xixia city wall in Xixia language.
"There is no cure for the wounded and the sick can only wait for death. After days of heavy snow and natural disasters, you may not even have enough food to last for a few days," Gu Yuanbai said. You will not be unaware of the consequences of this. The rations will be given first to the unwounded soldiers, and you, you, without arms and legs, will only be abandoned and become the nameless corpses of war. Turn around and look at the ruins behind you, there There are also many of your comrades buried under it waiting to be treated, but you have no way to save them, because you can't protect yourself."
"Your emperor, your generals can't keep you safe," Gu Yuanbai smiled. "They are not good emperors, nor are they good generals."
The expression of Li Angyi, who was restrained in the crowd, changed slightly.
The soldiers of Daheng were also listening to the words of the sage. They looked up at the hostile soldiers on the city wall of Xixia, and saw that the dirt on their faces had not even been wiped off. will collapse.
Apparently, as the night passed, they only hurriedly erected the city wall.
There is no comparison with Daheng at all.
The Xixia soldiers knew that they should not listen to Emperor Daheng's words and should refute them, but they were silent and listened to this sentence in their hearts.
"Someone." Gu Yuanbai said suddenly.
The soldiers in the rear pushed the vehicle out, and as soon as their hands were released, the bloated vehicle immediately tilted its handlebars, and the things on the vehicle slipped to the ground.
The soldiers untied the layers of cloth, which were overflowing with food and herbs.
Gu Yuanbai lifted his anger and said loudly, "Whoever surrenders will be saved! Whoever does not surrender will be killed!"
The army was shaken, and tens of thousands of people shouted: "Whoever surrenders will be saved! Whoever does not surrender will be killed!"
The high voice made the ground and city walls tremble.
The Xixia people in the entire city heard this shout that broke through the sky. They endured the pain and looked at their companions in twos and threes.
On the ruins in the corner, many people were still moaning in pain, their lives were rapidly draining, and their blood stained the ground red.
Many more were buried under the rubble, desperately waiting to die.
There are such lonely and helpless scenes everywhere in the gray city walls.
No one cares about them, no one saves them.
Medicines and food are the life of a soldier.
With a "bang" sound, I don't know who's weapon fell to the ground. The sound of this sound seemed to have awakened the entire city, and the sound of falling iron objects sounded one after another.
Gu Yuanbai led the army and watched Xixia's city gate slowly open in front of them.
Gu Yuanbai exhaled a turbid breath, he looked at the restless Xixia people, turned around and said concisely with the generals: "Save people."
A large number of people rushed into the Xixia city, and under the watchful eyes of the Xixia people, they lifted the man lying on the ground and moaning in front of the military doctor. The ruins were lifted up and cleaned up, and occasionally seeing people who were not seriously injured, the Daheng soldiers directly ripped off the cloth bag around their waists and handed them herbs to stop the bleeding.
Everything is organized and unhurried.
Gu Yuanbai rode on a thousand miles horse, turned his head, and looked at Li Angyi in the crowd.
"Let him go."
Li Angyi was pushed out of the crowd and stood in front of the Daheng army.
Gu Yuanbai looked at him condescendingly and said, "The natural disaster is ruthless, and it has not spared me. Go see the scene in your city, how is it different from mine? I, Daheng, will never take advantage of people's danger, I will let you go. Go, I want you to see who is killing you."
"The soldier you can't save, I'll save the person you can't protect," Gu Yuanbai leaned over, his dark eyes were faint, and looked directly at Li Angyi, "I'll protect him."
Gu Yuanbai stood up straight and said loudly, "You believe in the destiny, and I step on Lingxiao."