If you say that Wei Cheng abandoned his parents for fame and fortune, it wouldn't be so outrageous. After all, if Wei Guogong hadn't promised to properly arrange his parents, Wei Cheng might not have agreed to his conditions.
But if you say that Wei Cheng will give up this easy opportunity to reach the sky in one step, then the answer... is obviously no.
Of course he knew that what he did was unethical and would even be reviled by others, but he also had reasons for having to accept it.
"Perhaps in a sense, I feel sorry for the two elders. It is my fault as a son to not be able to provide for them personally." Wei Cheng's mind gradually cooled down and his tone was orderly: "But I have also thought about that result. ——I have brought a more comfortable life to my family, and as for fulfilling my filial piety, there is no harm in leaving it to my elder brothers and sisters-in-law."
"You really make excuses for this kind of thing..." Wei Kui twisted his arms together and snorted like a sneer. "In the end, it's all about the so-called fame."
"Yes, I'm just for fame." Wei Cheng's words were like a knife, categorical, and there was an unusually firm look on his face. It can even be said that it was harsh: "Because no one will care about what an unknown person says. No matter what he said or what he did, no one cares what he thinks."
"I thought that since I became a general, I could do it for you, but General Li still forbids me from talking about it, so what can I do if you tell me?" Wei Cheng continued to tell his thoughts: "Now I am the son of Duke Wei, and in the future I will become Duke Wei of Shengguo. Only then, when I can be on an equal footing with them, will they seriously think about what I want to say!"
"It seems that you are really convinced by your own theory." Wei Kui lowered his head slightly and smiled silently: "You... don't have to be so high-sounding."
"I never thought about letting anyone else do it for me. "When talking about the past, Wei Kui still used a peaceful tone to whitewash the peace, and only occasionally revealed a little bit of the deepest malice: "If it is the Battle of Hanerzhou, then we people are the victims. , have you seen any victim who still wanted to be "***ed"? And if I killed Wang Chi, Wang Qing and the others later... I don't think I did anything wrong. That was what they deserved - I call it retribution. "
Speaking of this, Wei Kui suddenly recalled the fantasy dream in which he was in the "underworld". The Wang brothers and other officers, such as Tian Kai, who had been dealt with by him a long time ago, and Zheng Xianming, who had always been jealous of him, and others He was also among them, but at that time, his murderous thoughts had been distorted by the gloomy environment and went crazy, and he had no time to say hello to these "old friends".
"Don't you know that in the end you were defined as a traitor who "took full responsibility for the defeat of Hanerzhou and killed his colleagues out of fear of crime"? This isn't fair to you! "Wei Cheng reminded that after Wei Kui left the Tianlang Army, he really had no information channels to learn about what happened later.
"So?" This is the difference in views between Wei Kui and Wei Cheng due to their different identities, experiences, personalities, etc.: "So what if I don't agree with these? They can still be so qualitative, but it doesn't hinder them. I don't care at all - no one cares about fairness, I care about the outcome."
"Now that the matter has come to this, there is only one solution left - either they will kill me to defend their authority, or one day in the future, I will take revenge one by one."
Wei Kui's wild hair exploded like the fur of a big cat, and his pupils were ignited with anger. There seemed to be molten iron flowing through the ferocious beast-like eyes, and finally condensed into a fight.
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Looking down at the earth from the sky, a short and thin caterpillar is launching a forced march of death in the vast sea.
The saddest thing about this story is that the caterpillars know that they will never be able to escape the shackles of the dragnet, but they are still unwilling to do so.
Reluctant, this is such a sad word.
"Two bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Du Rong handed Wei Kui a leather pot and jumped off the horse.
They have been besieged for more than
It has been a month, and Wei Kui stopped counting after the number exceeded thirty. What is even more desperate at this moment is that the casualties of the entire team have exceeded half, and they are exhausted, both mentally and physically exhausted - Anyway, Wei Kui has made sufficient psychological preparations. Can the news be worse than the current situation?
Wei Gui wiped his face and rubbed a handful of gravel from between his eyebrows and beard. He used to be a good boy with fine skin and tender flesh, but now it has become normal to use gravel to rub the rough skin: "Then let's start with the less bad news!"
"We have completely lost contact with the Chinese army...or to put it another way, they also know that we are surrounded in Han'erzhou, but they can't get in." Du Rong sat down cross-legged and found that Wei Kui's expression had not changed. Then he said: "Maybe they have completely given up on us."
"Can't we get in?" After Du Rong finished speaking, Wei Kui's eyes widened: "Two thousand of us killed nearly ten thousand people, and we can't even take away the loot. They grew up eating shit. What?"
Wei Kui's anger was reasonable. The way Sheng Guo calculated military merit was no different from that in ancient times. Parts of the enemy's corpses, such as ears and noses, were cut off as evidence. In addition, there were carriages, horses, baggage, weapons, food and other supplies - Wei Kui He led the front army to defeat Xie Gao's vanguard in Tuochuan, south of Han'erzhou. He killed more than five thousand enemies and captured countless supplies. However, Xie Gao's army quickly rushed to Tuochuan's aid, set up defenses here, and routed Wei. Forced into Hanerzhou.
In order to get rid of the pursuit, Wei Kui also discarded supplies along the way to delay the opponent's journey, but in the end it was difficult to resist the enemy's increasing reinforcements, and the military rations he carried were gradually exhausted. Fight guerrillas and wait for the arrival of your own army to respond internally and externally.
But until the Xie Gao army completely completed the encirclement, and gradually reduced the defense line, hoping to defeat Wei and trap him on this sandbank, they could not wait for news. They could only find out the status of the Xie Gao people's encirclement network from their scouts. An analysis was made - the Chinese army did try to open up a channel for them. During the period from fifteen to twenty-five days after being surrounded, the Haogao people's defense line in the west was obviously weakened, but the opponent's The reaction was also very fast, and troops were immediately mobilized to fill the gap, causing Wei Kui and others to not have time to seize this fleeting opportunity.
And after a long time... there was finally no information worth analyzing outside, because the Haoyao people were sparing no effort to search for the whereabouts of the Sheng *** team on this sandbank.
"There is nothing we can do about it. I should have expected that these people and dogs can't change their shit-eating behavior." Du Rong also cursed a few times. The Wansu camp was evenly divided into five armies, and the one who led the left wing was Zheng Xianming, this guy always thought that Wei Kui had taken away his position, so he must not have contributed any merit or strength, but they never expected that the intelligence they received had also changed - they thought that the opponent's total military strength It was between 10,000 and 50,000, but now it seems that it is even far more than this number. "The other bad news is that we don't have even one arrow now."
In this protracted guerrilla war, Wei Kui and the others consumed all the arrows, and even later dismantled the grain truck and cut the frame into wooden sticks to replace the arrows, but this did not have a decisive effect. Effect - There are also some incredible people in the opposing army. After discovering that Wei Kui and the others could only fire thin wooden sticks, they seemed to have issued an order to ban shooting - this group of trapped beasts has completely lost the ability to rely on long-range weapons for guerrilla warfare. Being surrounded by a large army is already a certain death situation. If you shoot arrows at them now, it will provide them with weapons to fight back and increase your own casualties.
"Isn't there some good news that will cheer people up after hearing it?" Wei Kui said with a bitter smile. If this continues, they will definitely be captured within ten days.
"Ah, of course." Du Rong unscrewed the leather jug and handed it to Wei Kui's mouth, "At least we still have the courage and wine to fight to the death."
While Wei Kui was drinking a lot of strong wine, Du Rong also explained his thoughts to him: "Now we only have a fighting strength of more than 600 people, and we are dragging a bunch of brothers who are completely unable to move, and we want to escape all of them. The possibility is zero - not equivalent to none, but a definite certainty, so I think it’s time to make a choice.”
"You mean to abandon all the wounded?" Wei Kui frowned.
"No." Du Rong shook his head, "It's not to give up all the wounded, but to give up most of the people - to put it in a nice way, that is to let most of the people stick to Han'erzhou and let the few with the strongest physical strength I rode the horses with the strongest strength and secretly crossed the Xiegao people's defense line to seek support. The team of nearly a thousand people was too conspicuous, but if there were only a few people, it might be possible."
"Of course, this price is very heavy - because we don't know the situation outside at all, and we don't know where Li Duo and the others are, so there is a very high possibility that those who stay in Hanerzhou will die without waiting for rescue. All destroyed."
"No, absolutely not. This is equivalent to asking everyone to sit back and wait for death." Wei Kui immediately rejected Du Rong's opinion.
"We are just sitting back and waiting for death." Du Rong was also quite calm, even cold: "You should listen to my opinion, so you should eat something quickly and take Ding Xing, Sun Zhan and the other young people to set off. !」
Wei Kui's eyebrows immediately rose: "You mean you are going to take everyone here to wait for death? You want me to survive?"
"Don't you understand? This is not a question of who survives - our resources are very, very, very limited, and if there is only one person who can forcefully tear open a line of defense and break out, that person will only be you. I You choose to let these young people go with you because you believe that you can bring out as many people as possible with your ability." Du Rong always had a big brother tone, and he was still calm even when describing this kind of thing.
"If you really believe in my ability, you should believe that I can take everyone with me." Wei Kui stared at his elder brother's face and said word by word.
Du Rong's face that was no longer young was full of wrinkles when he smiled: "Don't be stupid, Xiao Wei - if we could really go together, wouldn't we have left long ago? Your bravery is enough to support you to go alone. Passing through a defense line of hundreds of people, it is definitely not enough to lead hundreds of people to stop the crushing of tens of thousands of people - our only advantage now is that you, a special individual, are unstoppable on the local battlefield."
While the two of them were talking, Wei Kui fell down silently, perhaps in a drowsy state or in a coma. He only remembered that the last voice he heard in his ears was "That's the decision!"
And when he woke up again, facing only a dozen people around him, he realized that he had been deceived.
