The visitor was the Emperor of Western Xia.
Gu Yuanbai looked at him for a long time before he hooked his lips and revealed a cold smile. Li Ang Yi wiped the blood from the top of his head and sighed softly, "I also ask you to send a military doctor to heal my wounds for the sake of my appearance."
Gu Yuanbai said, "Someone come."
Two quarters of an hour later, Li Yang Yi's head injury had been simply bandaged. Dong Ling Wei found Li Yang Yi on the battlefield, and at that time, he was being crushed under the corpse of a steed, just an arm's length away from the cracked abyss.
The candlelight in the middle of the tent was swayed by the cold wind, reflecting a shadowy and uncertain light on the faces of the two emperors.
Li Aung Yi does not need to think, will be able to know how many soldiers and horses will be stationed in front of this tent, ten million people to defend him alone, even if Li Aung Yi has three heads and six arms, but also to escape from this Daheng military camp.
He sighed again and simply relaxed, leaning back in his chair and looking at Gu Yuanbai like a long-time friend, "You don't seem to have suffered any injuries."
Gu Yuanbai straightened his robes, sniffing, his eyelids flicked up and he seemed to smile, "Indeed, it's a bit better than you."
"Heaven's destiny is unpredictable," Li Aung Yi eyes show some inexorable color, he was godless for a moment, suddenly said, "Tonight the moonlight is good, why don't we go out for a walk together?"
The guards in the tent were tense in spirit and gripped the swords at their waists.
Gu Yuanbai directly got up, "Let's go."
*
The moon was in the sky, but the Daheng military camp had not yet fallen into a deep sleep, and the soldiers with torches patrolled around, and the disaster relief was well organized.
LiAngYi looked at the high hanging bright moon, leisurely said: "after the natural disaster, but the moonlight is still so bright, really is merciless. The earth dragon turn over also came too suddenly, on the contrary, it is in you and I imperial expedition when descending, it sounds a few points of ghosts and gods of punishment."
Gu Yuanbai stepped over the rubble, his tone slow, "You don't believe it."
"I believe," Li Aon Yi inclined his head and looked deeply at Gu Yuanbai, "I believe it."
Gu Yuanbai's eyes narrowed.
"Before I went to Daheng, you might have heard of my 'hard life'," Li Aung Yi smiled slightly, revealing a bit of dark sarcasm as he played with the word between his lips, "Hard life, it really makes me feel bad to hear it. "
Gu Yuanbai didn't say anything, and Li Yangyi didn't try to get him to respond, he just whispered what he wanted to say as if he were murmuring, ''You may not know that I was born in a hut. My mother's status was lowly, but she was lucky enough to conceive the dragon's seed in one go. She was afraid that someone would ruin her path to heaven, and hid in the hut every day to eat and drink, and so, under her fearful hiding, those snakes and scorpions in the harem didn't really find her."
"But a lowly courtesan hiding from the palace concubines to give birth to a lowly second prince, let people think that she is unintelligent enough to deserve to die," Li Aung Yi sighs, thinly veiled and cold look, as if the person in the words is not his biological mother in general, "Ambition is greater than the ability to act and act this disgusting, if she does not die who will die? "
"The second prince who mixes blood and stench in the outhouse really deserves to die, too."
"Because he's so dirty." Leonie said.
Gu Yuanbai said indifferently, "Your mother consort is now, however, posthumously named Empress Dowager by you."
Leonie laughed, "Because she has a," playfully, "good son with a hard life."
"Don't be anxious, I haven't finished my words," Li Aung Yi put his hands in front of his body, his slightly curled black hair was curdled by the blood, "I grew up since I was a child, and my life was really hard. People worry about three meals a day, worry about feeding their children and grandchildren, I also worry about food, worry about living. Let's talk about these hands alone," he picked up his hands and waved them in front of Gu Yuanbai, "These hands were once stepped on by the Queen of the Palace. Because she found the stones hard on her feet, she asked me to take my hands and pave the way for her. That stone road was not long, but at that time I was young, so I thought it would never end. I still remember the scene, I was lying on the ground, like a dog, when the palace maiden lifted her back foot, I had to quickly put the hand that had been stepped on in front of me, so that the maiden could step on my hand in time, and so on and so forth."
"Do you know why this matron treated me so well? It is because I am really hard-lived and really lucky to have been born out of my lowly mother consort's womb five days before her son was born, and surpassed her son to become the second prince of Western Xia."
Li Aon Yi muttered to himself, "It's only fitting that she should see that I'm not doing well."
"People are either forced to live, or forced to be powerful, they always have to do something they don't want to do," Li Aon Yi stopped walking, the cold wind suddenly rose, blowing over the robes of all the people, "These things are good and bad, forcing you to move forward step by step. If you don't do it, then you can't live. No one doesn't want to live, don't you want to live? You naturally want to live, from the time you were born to the descent of power, you have hardly suffered many trials and tribulations. The most troublesome thing in your life should be the fall of power and this sickly body, you can discover the spice problem so quickly, you can notice the discomfort of your body so quickly, so the idea of wanting to live, you should know how strong it should be."
Gu Yuanbai was silent.
The cold wind ruffled the hair at his temples, and there were tiny cuts on the side of his face where the grains of stone had rubbed against him.
Li Aung Yi smiled bitterly with the wind as he said softly, "I want to live and be seen as a human being in general."
"I want to wear clothes befitting my status as a prince, I want to eat at the table, I want the bystanders to stop shamefully throwing a steamed bun towards the outhouse and then letting me pick it up and eat it," Li Aung Yi, "Well, I have to be honest, even better food rolled around in the outhouse makes it hard to swallow. "
Gu Yuanbai locked eyes with him as he stood in front of the broken tiles, his eyes seeming to glow with a ghostly color as the two emperors' majesties silently stared at each other.
The smile on Li Aung Yi's face tightened and he became expressionless.
The seventh prince of Western Xia was handsome, and Li Angyi bore a three-point resemblance to Li Anshun, but his appearance was much more ordinary. After collecting his smile, his ordinary face emerged with an extraordinary gloomy coldness, "I first learned to be an animal in order to survive in the filthy Western Xia harem until now. On that gravel road, my hands were stepped on by the Harem Maiden with blood pouring out, and she hated to waste my hands. The palace maid beside her, on the other hand, scolded me for dirtying the stone road and gave me five slaps in public. As I used the shirt behind my chest to wipe off that blood, I decided that I must be a human being."
"To be a real person, a person who can take revenge back on all the people who have harmed me and beaten me," Li Aung Yi sank his face, "Who do the people in the harem fear the most to be the emperor? They are most afraid of me. Because I'm the only one who has been bullied and humiliated by everyone who wants to yank me down, because they know that as long as I step up, they will die."
"The First Prince is arrogant and treats me like a horse slave, he deserves to die. The third prince is gentle, but privately, he made me eat boiling hot incense ash, he and his mother deserve to die. The fourth prince and the fifth prince have the same mother, they help each other as brothers, they also deserve to die ...... As for the seventh prince, snort, stupid one, but excellent good spear."
Li Aung Yi: "Guess how they all looked after I ascended to the throne?"
Gu Yuanbai: "I guess, they're scared."
Li Aon Yi didn't hold back a laugh out loud, his chest was stuffy and his spine curved with laughter, "You're right."
The grease on the torch exploded, the sparks were blown away, and it burned violently and violently again.
Li Aung Yi straightened up and coldly lowered his voice, "But I managed to become a human being, and now I'm losing again."
"I naturally believe in the heavens, but the heavens do not favor me!" The color of blood slowly rose in Li Aung Yi's eyes, "It doesn't let me live properly! I have exhausted all my efforts, my tens of thousands of troops, millions of silver, the entire Western Xia is under my control and will slowly come back to life in my hands, but the Heavens won't let me do that!"
He fiercely pointed at Gu Yuanbai and roared, "Heaven favors you! What have you suffered? All the people and all the officials love you, and you'll get whatever you want! Even if you want me dead, I'll have to break a leg to protect myself!"
The guards, Dong Ling Guards and soldiers abruptly pulled out their large swords and spears and instantly surrounded Gu Yuanbai, pointing them at Li Ang Yi.
Cold light jumps and fire flashes dangerously.
Li Yang Yi's agitated emotions calmed down in an instant, he still smiled bitterly like that, ''The heavens have fallen into a great disaster, you are unharmed, but I am trapped in the enemy camp. This is all the will of heaven, it's my fate. Gu Convergence," he said softly, word by word, "I didn't lose to you, I lost to the heavens."
"Heaven wants me to die, I have to die."
Gu Yuanbai didn't suddenly smile until this moment, and he said with uncertain joy and anger, "You think you didn't lose to me, but to Heaven?"
Li Aung Yi said frankly, "Yes."
"Then I want you to see who you actually lost to," Gu Yuanbai turned around, his robes flying along with his strides, "Take him with you."
*
On the second day after the earthquake, Gu Yuanbai drove outside the Western Xia Army's compound with his army.
The Western Xia people were terrified, the city gate was tightly closed, and the head of the city wall stood densely packed with Western Xia soldiers.
Western Xia did not have enough medicine for the wounded, and they had 20,000 to 30,000 wounded soldiers because of the ambush in the rear. Coupled with the disappearance of the Xixia emperor disappeared, Xixia's generals were terrified, and led the people to follow the emperor's trail overnight, they could not even search for food to do, intact and uninjured soldiers were brought out by the generals, and inside this city, were all the wounded Xixia people.
Looking at the Daheng army that was far out of range, despair grew in the hearts of those who hadn't gotten a drop of water since the earthquake.
Why was it that on the second day after the short earthquake, the Daheng people could raise their troops and come under the city of Xixia?
Gu Yuanbai was clad in armor as he looked at the gate and calmly said, "General Zhang, pass on my words."
Zhang Hu claimed that the general was leading the order, "Yes!"
Gu Yuanbai said, "People in the city, I know that you are a city full of wounded soldiers."
Zhang Hucheng raised his voice and carried the words in Xixia language to the top of the Xixia city wall.
"You can only wait for death without medication for your injuries, you guys, after days of heavy snow and natural disasters, by now, perhaps even the food is no longer enough to last for a few days," Gu Yuanbai said, "Soldiers on the battlefield, once you are injured what kind of consequences, you will not be unaware of. The rations will be supplied first to the soldiers who have not been injured, while you, with your missing arms and legs, will only be abandoned and become nameless corpses under the war. Turn around and look at the ruins behind you, where there are still many of your comrades buried underneath waiting to be rescued, but you have no way to save them, because you yourselves are hard to protect."
"Your emperor, your generals can't keep you safe," Gu Yuanbai laughed a little, "They're not a good emperor, and they're not a good general."
The face of Li Aung Yi, who was clamped down in the middle of the crowd, changed slightly.
The Daheng soldiers were also listening to the words of the saint, and they looked up at the hostile soldiers on the walls of Western Xia, looking at the dirt on their faces that hadn't even been wiped off yet, and the walls underneath their feet, which were so ragged and tattered that it seemed as if they would collapse with a single bump.
Apparently the night passed and they only hastily erected the walls.
There's no comparison to Daheng at all.
The Western Xia soldiers knew that they shouldn't listen to Emperor Daheng's words and that they should retort, but they were silent and took in the sentence.
"Come on man." Gu Yuanbai suddenly said.
The soldiers in the rear pushed the vehicle out, and as soon as their hands were released, the bloated pile immediately buckled its handlebars and its contents slid to the ground.
The soldier undid the layers of cloth tape one by one, and it was full of overflowing food and herbs.
Gu Yuanbai raised his breath and said in a loud voice, "Those who surrender are saved! Those who don't surrender will be killed!"
The army shook as tens of thousands of people roared, "Those who surrender are saved! Those who do not surrender are killed!"
The high pitched voice made the ground and the walls tremble.
The entire Western Xia people in the city heard this shout that broke through the clouds, and they endured the pain in their bodies, facing each other with their companions in twos and threes.
Many of the people on the corner ruins were still moaning in pain, their lives draining away rapidly, blood staining the ground.
Many more were buried under broken walls, waiting in despair for death.
Such scenes of loneliness and helplessness were everywhere within the gray walls.
No one cares about them, no one saves them.
Herbs and food, that's the life of a soldier.
"With a clang, the weapon in someone's hand fell to the ground. This sound seemed to have awakened the entire city, and the sound of iron weapons dropping sounded one after another.
Gu Yuanbai led his army and watched the gates of Western Xia slowly open in front of them.
Gu Yuanbai exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, he looked at those apprehensive Western Xia people, turned to the generals and said succinctly, "Save the people."
A large number of people rushed into the Xixia city, in the Xixia people's guarded and fearful eyes will lie on the ground moaning in pain lifted up in front of the military doctor. Ruins were lifted up and cleaned up one by one. Occasionally, when they saw people who were not seriously injured, Daheng soldiers would directly tear off the cloth bag around their waist and hand them over to stop the bleeding with medicinal herbs.
Everywhere is organized and not rushed.
Gu Yuanbai rode on top of his thousand-mile horse, turned his head, and looked at Li Aon Yi in the middle of the crowd.
"Let him go."
Li Aung Yi 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 merciless, and it has not spared me. Go and take a look at the scene in your city, how is it different from mine? I, Daheng, will never take advantage of a person's danger; I'll let you go, and I'll let you see who is actually perishing you."
"The soldiers you can't save, I'll save, and the people you can't protect," Gu Yuanbai leaned over, his dark eyes ghostly, looking directly at Li Yangyi, "I'll protect."
Gu Yuanbai straightened up and said forcefully, "You believe in Heaven's destiny, while I step into the sky."