Sure enough, Jiang Heng guessed right. He saw Zeng Yu riding his horse along the long street and said, "His Royal Highness, Jiang Taishi, and the two soldiers of the Ying Kingdom, King Yong invites you to discuss matters in the palace."
Jiang Heng said to Zeng Yu: "Let His Highness rest for a while, he is too tired, General Zeng please go back and tell him that after rest, we will come together."
Geng Shu returned from a rush of marching from Weiguan, and he went into the battlefield without rest. During this period, he closed his eyes a few times for a short rest, and then it was an endless siege. When he saw Jiang Heng again, his physical strength was on the verge of its limit.
Geng Shu nodded, Zeng Yu hesitated to speak, Jiang Heng understood the meaning after thinking about it, and looked at the military talisman by Geng Shu's waist.
Geng Shu said: "We cannot return the military talismans, we have to send them back to Song County, otherwise our troops will be insufficient."
Zeng Yu was ordered to come to collect the military talisman, but he did not expect Geng Shu to do so, and there was no way to do it for a while. But fortunately there are only 8,000 troops left under him, and Yong's garrison still has 60,000 troops. Yubiguan is sending reinforcements to build Anyang into a military stronghold. Don't be afraid of what Geng Shu will do under his command. Come.
Jiang Heng winked, implying that Zeng Yu was going back, and Zeng Yu had to leave.
Geng Shu sat on the spot, leaning against the dilapidated house, Xiang Yu said, "Would you like to change the place?"
Jiang Heng said: "It doesn't matter, just rest like this."
Xiang Yujia sent guards, and the guards voluntarily retreated fifty paces away, leaving Geng Shu and Jiang Heng in front of the house. Geng Shu's armor was heavy, blood seeped out of the gaps, his face was dirty, his hair was messy, and his body was covered with coagulated blood clots.
"Heng'er." Geng Shu said.
"Well." Jiang Heng checked Geng Shu's injuries, but luckily most of them were minor injuries.
"Do you know why you came back to fight Anyang?" Geng Shu said softly.
"You know, don't move," Jiang Heng said, "the ear is bleeding."
He carefully pulled the blood out of Geng Shu's ear canal. Geng Shu said, "I was hit by a rolling log, and they pushed it down from the city wall... You don't know."
"I know." Jiang Heng whispered.
"You don't know." Geng Shu showed a sad smile.
" I know." Jiang Heng cleaned the blood from Geng Shu's ears, and reiterated, " Because you lived in Anyang when you were a child, you knew that Liang people would not surrender, and it would be a matter of time before your father beat him down. After the city is broken, you will definitely take out the anger on the people and massacre the city, so you must do it first, and after the city is broken, you can save the lives of the people here."
Hearing this, Geng Shu looked at Jiang Heng in disbelief, his eyes were still clear.
This is the birthplace of Geng Shu, and his mother is still buried in Anyang. Jiang Heng has always wanted to visit her cemetery and put a flower in front of her tomb. Thank you for giving her the most beloved son to herself. A man who lives with him.
She gave everything for Geng Yuan, and followed him when she left, leaving her son behind and instructing him to go to Xundong and find her lonely self.
Jiang Heng said: "Xiang Yu has been asked to release the blockade in the south of the city, and all the people in the city will be transferred, so as to prevent Juicong from killing the people in a rage, but with allies there, I don't think it's good for him. ."
"You really know!" Geng Shu laughed like a child.
"Of course." Jiang Heng said softly, and applied medicine to the wound on his leg, "As soon as we met, you told , you are from Anyang, and you said that the place where you lived was very lively, outside It's a market, and every day you carry boxes for your mother and go to the market to sell wicks, don't you? Remember."
"You all remember." Geng Shu closed his eyes, he was too tired, and said, "Brother also remembers, remembers all."
He leaned his head on Jiang Heng's shoulder, and Jiang Heng said, "Sleep, just sleep for a while."
Geng Shu's body was very heavy, with the armor, it was half-pressed on Jiang Heng's shoulder, and slowly fell down, lying in his arms. Jiang Heng hugged him, combed his blood-stained hair with his fingers, and stared at the deserted street.
Jiang Heng's fingers were very light and soft, while Geng Shu had a dream in which he returned to his childhood. In his home in Anyang, his mother hugged him, sang to coax him to sleep, and touched his son from time to time. hair to show that she was always there and never left.
In the meantime, Geng Shu's subordinates came over. After the city was broken, they looked for the head coach for a long time, and finally saw them in a remote alley. When they entered the vicinity, they were blocked by the heavily armed Ying Army until they confirmed their identities again and again. He let it in.
"Master Taishi," said the subordinate, "I have something to ask your Highness for."
"Separate a group of people," Jiang Heng didn't ask him, so he ordered, "Send the soldiers who died in battle home. For the other people, ask them if they want to go back to Song County or Yubi. Off, go and stay at your own will."
The subordinate said: "But General Zeng also came to ask today."
"Don't care what he says." Jiang Heng said, "Just say it means the Marquis of Wuling. When you speak, you should say Marquis of Wuling, don't call it Your Highness, just go."
Jiang Heng's move was to remind Juicong that Geng Shu was conferred the Marquis of Wuling, which was conferred by Yong Guo, justifiably.
According to the rules of the Yong Kingdom, Geng Shu has the power to recruit fiefs to lead soldiers. This is a regulation since ancient times. The ministers who have family soldiers must serve the royal family. This is the right to recruit troops that the monarch must also allow. As long as it does not exceed 20,000, the monarch has to give him full power to handle it.
Of course, the monarch also has the right to remove this power, but as long as he recognizes Geng Shu's status as Marquis of Wuling, he cannot interfere with his right to dispose of his family soldiers unless he seizes the lordship.
In the evening, the soldiers came to report, and Yong Jun let them go. They were willing to take Paoze's body back to Song County. The entire army suffered serious battle damage. Of the remaining 8,000 people, only a hundred were willing to return to Yubi Pass. The others all wanted to go south to Song.
Jiang Heng said: "Give the roster of the thousand teams to , rearrange now, you will take it to them later."
The soldier fired the torch, Geng Shu was still sleeping beside him, Jiang Heng set up a new formation for them under the light of the fire, and asked the two commanders to lead the men to stay in case Geng Shu needed it, and all the rest were sent back to Song County.
The life they gave everything for Yong Guo was over, and it was time for everyone to go back and live like individuals.
"Let's go." Jiang Heng said, and touched the sleeping Geng Shu's head again.
At night, Anyang Palace welcomed another monarch.
Juicong pushed open the door, the seal made a tearing sound, the copper door opened, and the dark shadow of Juicong was cast on the ground by the moonlight.
He walked slowly into the main hall.
There are still bloodstains left under the pillars, which were splattered by Geng Yuan when he killed Lord Changling.
Fifteen years ago, the day after the blood spilled out of the copper door, Liang Guo put a seal on the door of the main hall.
Later, King Xiaoliang moved to the East Hall to discuss matters. Baiguan also changed the place of the court. The main hall was simply cleaned, and no one entered. It seemed as if a group of ghosts lived there, still in the middle of the night when no one was there, discussing together. An outline of the ambition to conquer the world.
Juicong specially let people open the door and looked at every place carefully, imagining where is Geng Yuan's blood, where is the blood of the enemy, imagine how handsome and handsome he was when he played the piano, At the time of the sword, at the end of his mind, did his name flash through
He admired Geng Yuan.
Geng Yuan and Jie Gui are both his elder brothers, but Juicong admired Geng Yuan since he was a child. Compared to Ju Lang, Geng Yuan treated him more kindly, patiently, and understood his suffering better.
Juicong has only one friend since he was a child, and this person is Geng Yuan.
He knew very well that Geng Yuan liked Jue Lang more than him, but this did not affect his admiration for Geng Yuan in the slightest. When he was a child, he often quarreled with his elder brother. Only Geng Yuan will help him.
Dayong has always been in charge of the prince, the prince led the army on expeditions, and Ju Lang was in charge of governing the country and leading the army to fight, which fell on him.
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He will never forget the day when Geng Yuan decided to come to assassinate him.
This decision may have been made when he was ten years old.
At that time, when Yong Guo talked about the re-hearing of the name, his name changed. The name of the military god was too loud. Yong Guo suffered repeated defeats and was rejected at Yubi Pass, and he was not allowed to go half a step south.
"I can't beat him," Juicong, who was only ten years old, couldn't help but say to Geng Yuan, "I'm afraid when I think of him."
"Don't be afraid." In his spare time, Geng Yuan often accompanies Juicong to practice swordsmanship, points out his sword moves, and helps him adjust his movements. After all, Juicang prefers Jie Gui more, and Geng Yuan has no habit of competing for favor, so he often accompanies his younger brother. Play, each other is the same age.
"I can't help myself 'fear'," said the ten-year-old Juicong.
Geng Yuan, who is also ten years old, has an old-fashioned demeanor and said: "The meaning of this is not that you should not be afraid when facing him, but that there will be no day when you fight him. Before, he would have taken his life."
Juicong was shocked that day and said, "Can you do it?"
Geng Yuan said: "He is a human being, and if he is a human being, he will die. What's so strange about this? You can probably assassinate him."
Geng Yuan said it lightly, as if there was no one in the world who was his opponent, and he was hard to beat in his life.
Juicong said, "You will assassinate him for this."
"For the Yong Kingdom," Geng Yuan replied, "It is from Yong. Practice your swords well, or we will be told by your brother again."
No matter what Geng Yuan does, he always has a calm look, and he has never made any request to the royal family in his life. conditions, to test how Juicy treats him.
The only time I made a request was for a woman.
"Let Jiang Zhao go with you," Geng Yuan said to Juicong at the age of sixteen, "You don't like her either."
Without even thinking about it, Juicong agreed and said, "Of course you can if you like it."
Juicong can give anything to Geng Yuan, just for what he said back then, and Geng Yuan finally fulfilled his promise.
Juicong sat down in front of Wang's case and looked at the pile of blood-stained pieces of the case, where Geng Yuan stabbed Bi Jie to death, played the qin beside his body, and finally committed suicide.
He clearly remembered that the day Geng Yuan left, the famous doctor Gongsun Yue visited Yong State and prepared a plate of ointment for him.
Juicong crossed his arms, leaned his back against the pillar, and said, "You will be leaving tomorrow."
In the past few days, Geng Yuan has walked through every place in the Lama Temple, carefully looking at the two brothers, Ju Lang and Ju Cong. Hearing this, he motioned to him again, staring at him in the mirror.
"You don't have to do this." Juicong frowned.
Geng Yuan said, "You know what you have decided, and you never regret it."
Ju Lang also came, and the two brothers watched Geng Yuan together.
Geng Yuan asked again, "Is Jiang Zhao okay?"
"She has returned to Yuedi." Juicong said.
Geng Yuan nodded, Gongsun Yue prepared the ointment and placed it in front of Geng Yuan.
"This medicine can cause short-term blindness." Gongsun Yue said. "But if you don't use the antidote for a long time, it will completely blind your eyes, so Mr. Geng must use it carefully."
"Got it." Geng Yuan said lightly, and Gongsun Yue resigned.
"I don't know if the assassination will be successful within this year." Geng Yuan thought for a while, and said to his brother in the mirror, "Assassins make a shot, you have to be patient, there are some chances, you even have to take the last three months. Five years, but as long as you succeed, you will be able to hear the news from the south, and by then, Yong Kingdom will be able to exit the customs and enter the Central Plains."
Neither Ju Cong nor Ju Lang said a word, and looked at Geng Yuan silently.
"Isn't this what everyone has always wanted?" Geng Yuan suddenly laughed and said, "It's a good thing, come on, who of you will give me medicine?"
"No." Ju Cong choked with tears in his eyes, "Geng Yuan..."
Geng Yuan said, "Juicong, come here."
Juicong walked towards Geng Yuan, he understood Geng Yuan's heart, what was a pair of eyes? They have always been the ones who could sacrifice everything in order to accomplish their goals in life. And the elder brother, the one who was destined to become a prince after birth and succeeded as the monarch; the one who can get everything without much effort; the one who thinks that there is a way for both things; How can people who talk about "kingdom" know how many choices and sacrifices there are on the road of life
Sometimes a thought is a goodbye.
Juicong applied medicine to Geng Yuan, and then covered his eyes with black cloth layer by layer.
Geng Yuan said happily: "Okay."
Geng Yuan couldn't make a statement on the day he left, but everyone in the royal family came to see him off, Ju Lang, Jiang Qing, Ju Cong, Ju Ling, and even the Queen Mother Jiang.
Geng Yuan didn't even look back. He rode in a car, driven by a driver, blindfolded, and left Luoyan City where he grew up in the darkness, left his home, and went to the place where the vast birds crossed the mountains. Yubi Pass, to the Central Plains.
Seven years later, when Juicong inspected Yubi Pass, he heard news from the south that he had succeeded, but he also died in Anyang, before he had time to look back at his hometown.
In the dark, Juicong looked at the traces left by his best brother in life, like his ghost was still here.
"I'm here to take you home." Juicong said in the dark, "I wanted everyone here to be buried with you, but your son listened to Jiang Heng and let them go. It's okay, forget it." , his possessions are yours."