"We...we!!"
Pu Gu's mind was trembling, and he gritted his teeth and wanted to refute his father's words. In the end, he found that he had no way to refute!
Because, judging from the Tang people's unsparing actions this time, what his father said is the most likely thing to happen!
Mo Yun patted the trembling servant's bones, stared into his eyes, suddenly changed the subject, and asked in a low voice: "Did you mean Qi Jin's death?"
"I specifically chose him to go to the front of the Tang Dynasty to block the attack!"
When Mo Yun asked this question, Pu Gu was at the moment when his heart was fluctuating most violently! So without thinking, I directly revealed the secret hidden in my heart.
But when the words were spoken, Pu Gu suddenly woke up, raised his head suddenly, and looked at his father in shock!
Qi Jin's death, everyone thought it was an accident! No one connected his death to him!
Because before that, everyone was misled by what he said about the characteristics of firearms! It was taken for granted that among the four directions surrounding the Tang Dynasty, the rear where he walked was the most dangerous, while the front where Qi Jin walked was the safest!
But none of them thought that there would be danger behind the walk!
But when the siege is completed, the trapped beasts of the Tang Dynasty may choose to break out from the left, right, or front! The only thing I won’t choose is the back!
Because behind is the vast grassland, the world of their Turks!
Therefore, when Pu Gu first drew out the encirclement and solicited everyone's opinions, he had already secretly calculated that the possibility of the Tang people breaking out from the front and rushing directly to Shuofang was as high as 80%, so the front was the most dangerous side!
In order to give up the front to Qi Jin, who had always had a grudge against his father, Pu Gu volunteered to choose the rear, and then suggested that Qi Jin be responsible for intercepting the front.
I still remember that at that time, Qi Jin still had some doubts about his arrangement. But even the servants have spoken. Among those small tribes, who has the courage to seize this direction? They could only huddle to one side, drooling and greedy.
When the manpower in the remaining three directions was confirmed, even if Qi Jin had doubts, he could only accept the direction in front of the coveted eyes of the surrounding small tribes!
No one knew at that time: often what seems to be the safest and most beautiful is actually the most dangerous and sinister!
It is like a flower blooming on the cliff. Everyone sees its beauty, but they also ignore the numerous bones under the cliff.
Of course, the subsequent results of this matter have proved that Pu Gu's calculation was correct.
When Qi Jin fled and was pierced by a sharp arrow, he was only angry at those Tang people before he died! Angry that they despicably drove the livestock to charge instead of fighting him in an upright manner!
He never thought that there was a person behind him who wanted him to die from the very beginning!
In the dark cave, Mo Yun looked at the servant bones with extremely complicated eyes, but in the end, he didn't say anything, he just tightened his collar, got up and walked out.
"Father, where are you going?" Seeing Mo Yun's movements, Pu Gu was startled and quickly stood up and asked.
Mo Yun, who had already reached the entrance of the cave, stopped for a moment, but did not look back. Only a sigh came: "It's getting late, I have to go back, and my tribe is still waiting for me! My child, you can only It’s up to you!”
Pu Gu was shocked. When he came to his senses, he staggered out of the cave, only to see his father's vague back in the snow.
"Don't let a little hatred blind your eyes in the future, otherwise your world will be filled with enemies."
Mo Yun's last words came intermittently along with the wind and snow, and when he heard them in Pu Gu's ears, they made him feel as if he had been struck by lightning, and his entire body was frozen in place!
"Qi Jin, I have been fighting with my father for so many years, and yet... we are not enemies!"
This magical snowy night is destined to be remembered forever!
Even in the future, that powerful tribe also called Servant Bones will rise and sweep across the west! As the leader of the tribe, he will also think of this night in the dead of night, thinking of this night that affects his life!
The heavy snowfall in the third year of Zhenguan seems to have come earlier than before.
When Pu Gu met his father Mo Yun for the last time, Xiao Han and his party finally returned to Shuofang City.
When the city gate opened wide, the Shuofang people who had already received the news gathered on both sides of the road, holding torches and braving the wind and snow to welcome their hero!
Liu Er sat on his horse and entered the city proudly, but his blackened face and the stinging buttocks from time to time made him lose some of his heroic solemnity.
Xiong Kaishan followed Liu Er, and the first thing he saw was his sister. The delicate, flower-like girl was clutching her relatives' clothes tightly, and her eyes were no longer empty!
Xiao Han was not in the welcoming team, but when he entered the city, he, Chai Shao, Ren Qing and others quietly turned into the crowd while others were not paying attention, and returned to the posthouse along the alley. .
There, Tang Jian had already prepared a table of food and wine to welcome Xiao Han and others after they returned.
"Xiao Hou entered the grassland with three hundred warriors, killed thousands of bandits, and captured countless people. You must drink this cup!"
When everyone who came back sat down, Tang Jian looked solemn, seeming to have forgotten that Xiao Han had just tricked him a few days ago, and toasted to them solemnly.
Xiao Han was full of suspicion. He carefully studied the wine glass in his hand for a long time, making sure that there were no poisons, croton and other messy condiments in it, and then he drank it carefully!
"For the soldiers to return safely from the expedition, drink in victory!"
"For the heroic souls who died in battle, drink victory!"
After three large glasses of wine in a row, even if Xiao Han drank a lot, a slight blush appeared on his face.
Especially when he finally heard Tang Jian talk about his brothers who died in the battle, it made him even more melancholy, and made him even more drunk!
In just a few days of this expedition, only a little over 200 of the 300 people returned, a loss of nearly one-third!
The Tang slaves rescued from the Turkic tribes suffered even greater losses. Nearly half of them were lost or died in the final escape, and only a few dozen people followed them back to the city.
There were also those cattle and sheep they attacked the Turkic tribes captives. Except for a few they picked up along the way due to good luck, there were none left! All the Turkic herdsmen captured on the way ran away without a single one left!
Therefore, this expedition is an out-and-out victory in the eyes of others! But in Xiao Han's heart, it can only be regarded as a tragic victory!
The best equipment, the strongest hearts, but only a miserable victory?
Thinking of the families of the soldiers crying on the roadside at this moment, Xiao Han felt upset! Without waiting for others to persuade him to drink, he grabbed the wine bottle and poured it down wildly.
The other people at the wine table all knew Xiao Han's temper and why he did what he did, so they didn't try to persuade him.
As generals of an army, the sacrifice of their subordinates is inevitable, but this does not mean that they can accept it with peace of mind!
The human heart is never made of iron and stone!
