When Gu Yun walked out of the hall, his eyes were a little blurry. He calmly took a few breaths. For the first time in his life, he felt that the weight of light armor on his body was so overwhelming.
The potential of a person in a critical situation is probably infinite. Gu Yun was suffering from the unbearable headache that he usually had needles and a bed. After a full day and night in the Golden Temple, he passed by without feeling anything. However, as soon as he came out, he realized that he was completely exhausted, and his clothes were almost stuck to his body. When the breeze with the morning dew blew, he shivered top-heavy.
Just now there was still a ray of sun in the sky, but it was covered by dark clouds in the blink of an eye, and the morning light was faint.
Chang Geng was waiting for him at the door, with his back facing the golden hall that was stacked like an immortal palace. King Yanbei's robes were flying. He was staring in the direction of Qiyuanlou from a distance, wondering what he was thinking.
Hearing the footsteps, Chang Geng turned around, glanced at Gu Yun's face, and frowned, "The carriage is waiting outside, you can rest for a while."
Gu Yun was exhausted, and responded indiscriminately.
Chang Geng: "What did the one leave you to say?"
Gu Yun said indifferently: "Gossip nonsense."
Chang Geng saw that he didn't have the strength to speak more, so he quietly stopped talking and returned to the Hou residence all the way.
Countless arrows were sent out in the morning, and the six places had to follow suit. They all knew that this might be the only rest time left.
As soon as Gu Yun entered the room, his knees softened, and he staggered and threw himself on the couch.
The armor on his body was still unloaded, and when he slammed it down like this, half of his body was numb, and the entire roof was spinning around in front of his eyes. Gu Yun had the illusion that he could no longer get up.
Chang Geng stretched out his hand to hold his pulse, the cold hands of both parties would be terrifyingly hot, as if they had just been fished out of a brazier: "Foster father, when did you start to have a fever, do you know?"
Gu Yun let out a low moan, acid water was bubbling out from the seams of his bones, his eyelids were too heavy to lift, and he asked with difficulty, "Is my little brother still alive?"
Chang Geng: "Who?"
Huo Dan, who was following behind, hurriedly agreed, and took the little gray mouse out of his arms: "Master, you are living well."
"Then I'm fine too," Gu Yun said sickly, and propped himself up to get up, anyone in the circle took off his armor and relaxed a little, and his face was wet with sweat. The strands of hair were rubbed off, "It's either a cold or a fire, and it's over after taking a side drug and sweating a little."
Huo Dan was absent-mindedly on the side, wondering why his Marquis had died together with a gray-haired mouse again, but Chang Geng understood it, his eyes flickered slightly, and he pressed Gu Yun on the couch. Let him move: "Leave it all to me."
He motioned to Huo Dan to step back first, and took off Gu Yun's clothes that could be twisted out by himself. Gu Yun's body was soft, and when he opened his eyes, he felt dizzy. , looks inexplicably a little more frail.
Chang Geng's hands trembled as soon as the coat and middle coat were removed.
Gu Yun's thin lining was soaked with sweat, almost like a layer of garlic skin, which could not cover anything. His chest and waistline were all exposed. His face jumped directly into the hot spring to die.
Chang Geng's heart was beating like thunder for a while, and he didn't dare to take it off no matter what, so he had to pull a quilt over, wrap it all over Gu Yun, pull out a clean suit and put it beside him, whispering with a little pleading. Said: "Foster father, can you replace the rest yourself?"
Gu Yun didn't get sick much since he was an adult. He came here once in a while, and it seemed very serious. He burned his seven orifices with smoke, and his ears were ringing. Hearing this, he waved at Chang Geng weakly, complaining, "When is it, but you really belong to him."
Chang Geng looked at his nose, nose and mouth to one side. Gu Yun was so embarrassed by him that he became uncomfortable. The two looked at each other for a while, before Chang Geng embarrassedly said, "I'll go and decoct you."
He turned around and went out, finally letting both of them breathe a sigh of relief.
Gu Yun lay down for a while, his thoughts were quickly turned into a pot of porridge by the high fever, and everything poured into it.
After a while, I thought: "Xuantieying retreated to Jiayuguan, and no one would collect the bodies of the broken brothers, even if they were wrapped in horse leather."
Thinking about it, he felt that there was a hole in his heart, all kinds of miserable winds and rains were digging into it, and the distress that was pressed back by Jiang Chong's words on the way came back to him now, and the attack became more severe, and the pain was so painful that he wanted to die.
50,000 iron armors were damaged by half in one night
In the end, Gu Yun's consciousness gradually became blurred. It wasn't so much that he fell asleep. In fact, Ji passed out, his consciousness was dizzy, and he woke up from time to time. , fell down the thread, and the distant memories flashed one by one like a glimmer of light.
He remembered the years when he was neither deaf nor blind. He was like a dishonest flea. When the old man saw him, he would blow his beard and stare to make him angry.
But once, the old man rarely led him patiently to watch the sunset outside the Great Wall.
The old marquis is tall and majestic, and he is dignified. He treats the younger son the same size as the dumplings equally. He will never reach out to hug him, and forcefully hold him in his hand. It makes adults have to bend sideways, and children have to try to stretch their arms, which is uncomfortable for no one. But Gu Yun didn't complain. It was the first time he saw the blood-like sunset in the desert in the border city. The figure of the Xuanying flew past from time to time, like a golden crow dragging a white rainbow, the vast yellow sand near and far, the flat forest and desert, the young Gu Yun. Yun was almost shocked.
They kept watching the magnificent red sun sinking into the ground. Gu Yun heard that the old marquis felt moved by the lieutenant next to him, and said, "For the general, if you can die in the mountains and rivers, it will be considered a great blessing in life."
He didn't understand it at the time, but now, twenty years have passed.
"Master," Gu Yun thought in a daze, "I probably really will die in this mountain and river."
Like a horse in a gap, a fire in a stone, a body in a dream.
At this time, someone pushed the door and came in, picked up Gu Yun, and fed him a bowl of water. That person was so gentle, like someone who used to take care of people, and didn't spill it at all.
Then he whispered in Gu Yun's ear: "Zixi, drink the medicine before going to sleep."
Gu Yun didn't open his eyes, and answered vaguely, "Wake me up in half an hour and a half, or pour me a bowl of cold water if you don't wake up."
Chang Geng sighed, silently fed him the medicine, and then stood aside.
Gu Yun seemed to feel uncomfortable, tossing and turning, the quilt was about to be kicked away by him, Chang Geng covered him a few times, and finally wrapped him in his arms.
It's strange to say that Gu Yun has never been particularly close to anyone since he was a child. He feels that he is leaning against someone behind him, so he calms down, and the person holding him carefully adjusted him to the most comfortable position, Miss Chen. The matching powder filled his breath, a hand brushed his forehead just right, and his fingers repeatedly pressed on his forehead, shoulders and neck.
Gu Yun had never slept in such a comfortable "bed" in his life, and in a blink of an eye he didn't know what day it was.
The quiet time was as fast and unpredictable as running water, and half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
Chang Geng glanced at the clock next to him, and was really reluctant to let go of Gu Yun, nor to wake him up.
But there is no way, the war is imminent, looking at the world, how can there be a place where he can sleep peacefully
Chang Geng had no choice but to be ruthless. He tapped his finger on Gu Yun's acupuncture point and woke him up on time. He got up and went to the kitchen.
Gu Yun's heart was always tense. After a bowl of medicine and sweat all over, he suppressed his illness. He took a short rest for half an hour. When he woke up, the fever was almost gone. He lay in bed. After a while, he put on his clothes and felt that he was alive.
He felt better, and his heart also relaxed a lot.
Gu Yun thought to himself: "Isn't it just a bunch of foreigners? It's so general, what conspiracy and tricks are there?"
No matter how bad it is, he is still alive. As long as there are still people in the Gu family, the Xuantie Camp will not be wiped out.
Gu Yun let out a long sigh of relief, only then did he realize that he was so hungry that he pressed his stomach in pain, thinking to himself, "If anyone gives me two biscuits at this time, I will marry whoever is. Family."
Just as he was thinking about it, Chang Geng came in with a bowl of hot noodle soup, the heat and aroma came unceremoniously, and Gu Yun's internal organs were so hungry and thirsty that they turned around in a circle.
He repented to himself depressedly: "This has to be excluded, it can't be counted"
Unexpectedly, as soon as this thought came out, there was a sudden thunderstorm outside.
Gu Yun: ""
Chang Geng stretched out his hand and probed his forehead: "Go back, foster father will come over to eat first."
Gu Yun took the chopsticks silently, and when he heard the words "foster father", his heart suddenly moved, and he vaguely felt that there was something strange, but unfortunately this thought passed in a flash, and he failed to catch it.
Gu Yun: "What did you do?"
"In a hurry, there is only time for the next noodle." Chang Geng said without changing his expression, "Just make it."
Gu Yun's whole person was not very good all of a sudden, and he didn't know what the dignified "King of Yanbei" was doing to make himself so "virtuous".
However, Chang Geng seemed to see what he was thinking, and said calmly: "If the country is subjugated, I will push Li Feng, and I will go to the northwest to open a noodle restaurant, and it will be enough to survive."
Gu Yun choked on a mouthful of noodle soup and coughed to the death.
Chang Geng smiled and said, "I'm just kidding."
Gu Yun picked up a cup of herbal tea and took a sip: "Good boy, learn to entertain me, it's getting more and more outrageous."
Chang Geng said sternly: "Back then in Yanhui, you suddenly wanted to bring me back to the capital, and I wanted to run here, thinking about either going to be a hunter in the deep mountains and old forests, or finding a small border place to open a half-dead shop, enough Just make ends meet, but then I think it's unlikely that anything will slip under your nose, so I'll be honest."
Gu Yun pulled the vegetable steak aside, fished out the ham underneath and ate it, before he could chew it, Chang Geng suddenly leaned back on the chair and let out a long sigh of relief: "Foster father, you don't know, you have a day When insecurity appears in front of me, I dare not close my eyes for a day, finally.”
Gu Yun said lightly: "It's still 108,000 miles away from peace - tell me."
Chang Geng understood in his heart and knew that he was referring to something that was not said in front of Li Feng.
Gu Yun: "Xuantieying must have been withdrawn by you, otherwise He Ronghui and the others might hit the last person."
"I copied your words." Chang Geng said, "Retract the Xuantie Camp to Jiayuguan, and let General Cai Ping go north to help Xinjiang, count the time, the urgent Zi Liujin from General He must have already poured out his hands - this There is no need to let Li Feng know, anyway, he has already planned to abolish the drumming order."
Gu Yun blinked: "You can imitate"
"It's all about the other side." Chang Geng shook his head, "I've already sent a letter to Master from Jiangnan, but I still didn't catch up. In addition, I suspect that there are nails left by the northern barbarians in the palace 20 years ago, and I have asked someone to go. I checked, there is no news from General Shen, I'm afraid there will be no good news."
"No news is the best news," Gu Yun said after being silent for a moment, "The old mother has a very big life and won't die."
Chang Geng: "Foster father, the northwest is aggressive, but now it seems that there will be something wrong for a while. In your opinion, after the disaster in the East China Sea, can the capital be held?"
Gu Yun raised his head and glanced at him. Those eyes were like a pair of flints, cold and indescribably hard, and they seemed to ignite sparks with a light touch.
There was only him and Chang Geng in the room, and there was a bowl of noodles in the middle. Gu Yun didn't say anything, and said honestly, "It depends on whether we can hold out until there are reinforcements. The foreigners also want to fight quickly. , otherwise we won't have such a big opening, and the longer we delay, the better for us, but"
But Daliang's national strength could not support a protracted war.
Li Feng desperately wanted the Ziliu Gold Mine in Loulan because it was the most abundant and rich place in the world. The Ziliu Gold Mine was very rare, and the supply was in short supply. Nearly 40% of the Ziliu Gold in Daliang came from the 18 tribes paying tribute, and a large Some of them seem to be bought in pieces from the outside, and the silver that comes in from the shipping trader flows out like this.
Right now, the Eighteen Tribes are rebelling, and the four borders are besieged, and only the Ziliujin inventory can be mobilized.
This is just purple gold, not to mention that the treasury that is thinner than the yellow flower has so much silver
Gu Yun: "According to what you said, if it doesn't work in the end, it is the most sensible way to shrink the troops in the whole territory and make plans slowly, but it may not be feasible. It's okay to retreat to Jiayuguan. , But most of the contacts are businessmen who live in guest houses. The ancient Silk Road has just been opened for a few years, which is not enough for them to settle down. The climate of the ancient Silk Road is tense before and after the New Year. But inside the pass, there are still thousands of villages, ten thousand households and hundreds of millions of people, so He Ronghui can no longer retreat."
Xuantieying is the belief and even the pillar of Daliang folks. Once this pillar collapses, there is really no need to fight, and it is faster for Jiangshan to change his name directly.
Chang Geng was silent for a moment: "I'm talking about the last resort."
"It's not a last resort." Gu Yun shook his head, "You have a chasm in your heart, you know how to manipulate the society, but you haven't fought a war. In addition to the right time and place, there are two other things. One is the equipment of the fire machine and steel armor, and the other is the man's heart. The courage to not be afraid of death, the equipment has come to this point, there is no way to do it, but I believe that even if the foreigners are strong, they are not necessarily much stronger than us, not to mention the barbarian gang who can use an artillery as a club. Soldiers are not chess pieces, they are all people, all bloody, and they are all afraid of death, do you remember what I told you last time when we were in the southwest to suppress bandits?"
Chang Geng: "Remember, 'Before the battle, whoever doesn't want to die should die first'."
Gu Yun made a "uh" sound, his family and country were riddled with holes and he didn't delay his meal. In just a few words, he had already eaten a large bowl of noodles to the bottom. Finally, he pinched his nose and smashed the disgusting green leaves in one breath. The vegetables were mixed in the soup and drank without chewing, so he put the bowl on the table and said, "Is there any more?"
"No, I just made a bowl. You just fell ill and your spleen and stomach are still empty. It's best if you are 60 or 70 percent full." Chang Geng said, "How to fight, you have the final say, you don't have to worry about the future, and you don't have to worry about others. How to think, how to get money, how to find Zi Liujin, how to divide the layout can all be left to me."
Gu Yun was slightly shocked, and laughed: "Is it all for me? What if I can't win?"
Chang Geng smiled without saying a word, his eyes were fixed on him, like a pool of quiet water, suddenly turbulent, if his eyes could speak, his sentence "If you lose, I will accompany you to carry the infamy of the ages, you If you want to die, I will give you a burial" has already been clearly declared.
At this moment, Huo Dan suddenly knocked on the door lightly: "Commander, Duke Feng Han and General Tan came together, and also brought the second battle report in the East China Sea area along the way."
Gu Yun hurriedly said, "Quickly please!"
Chang Geng narrowed his eyes, cleaned up the tableware, and lowered his head for a moment, Chang Geng suddenly said, "There was another sentence just now that was nonsense."
Gu Yun was stunned.
"When I said that I didn't leave, I thought I couldn't run under your nose." Chang Geng smiled without raising his head, "I was just a borderline teenager growing up in a small place, and I didn't think about it that much."
Gu Yun had already keenly heard his implication, and said sternly: "Chang Geng, stop talking."
Chang Geng closed his mouth fluently and swallowed the following words.
At that time, he didn't think so much in his heart. The reason why he didn't escape in the end was because he couldn't give up another person.
Tan Hongfei and Zhang Fenghan came in quickly, and the front-line battle report of the lacquer was presented to Gu Yun. Tan Hongfei's hand was still shaking slightly, and Gu Yun's heart sank.
"Commander, report from the south of the Yangtze River, our army's navy has collapsed for thousands of miles, and the Westerners have already moved north. The foreigners don't know what to use. They are as fast as lightning, two or three times as fast as our navy's boats, and there is still a crowd in the middle. A sea monster." Tan Hongfei said, "If this is not nonsense, then they will arrive at Dagu Port in about two or three days!"
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