Step on a branch

Chapter 308
Hot tears welled up from Li Jie's eyes.

Grief and indignation filled his heart, and he couldn't bear it anymore, Li Jie howled loudly.

From laughing to crying, it's all because of unwillingness.

Why did Great Liang, which he fought for, become like that?
Why would the emperor he swears allegiance to to the death obey the traitor?
He spared this life, but, Marshal Shi Wei, who has already died in battle, and so many soldiers, they are underground, seeing such a great coolness, are they willing?Die in peace?

He hates it!
Hate it so much!
This kind of hatred is completely different from the hatred of the enemy general.

On the contrary, Li Jie could understand what Qin Yin and Lin Fan were thinking.

One is a veteran who has followed and fought for decades since Zhou Ren established the dynasty, and the other is a three-generation loyal soldier. His grandfather and father both died on the way to the expedition and left behind. Their resistance is enough to show their disappointment.

Even such a loyal and brave person can be labeled as a traitor, which shows the chaos in the court of the Zhou people.

With Great Liang, fifty steps and one hundred steps, don't laugh at each other.

Li Jie wiped his face heavily, he stood up from the ground, the shackles on his feet rattled with his steps.

He walked up to Lin Fan and held the iron rod of the cell door with both hands.

He looked deeply at Lin Fan, and asked for a long time: "Walk to the east? Can you do it?"

"Yes," Lin Fan replied word by word, "it must be done."

"Aren't you afraid that your Zhou emperor will take your widowed mother hostage?" Li Jie asked.

"I'm afraid," Lin Fan replied, "but as far as I know, my mother has left the capital with the help of my aunt. I don't know her whereabouts, but I know that she is waiting for me to go back to pick her up."

Li Jie asked again, "How do you know that the next person to sit on the Dragon Throne will be a good emperor?"

"Who would know?" Lin Fan hid his hand and said, "But General Li and I both know that now our emperor, your emperor, has gone astray."

Li Jie was taken aback, and laughed with tears in his eyes: "What will happen to the people of Xizhou?"

"We don't even kill prisoners," Lin Fan said, "how can we touch ordinary people?"

With his forehead against the iron rod, Li Jie took a deep breath, and let it out again, full of depression in his chest.

"Give me the pen and paper," Li Jie said, "Yu Bai, the guard of Xizhou, and I are good friends. He used to be a member of Marshal Shi Wei's father. I will write a letter to him. As for whether he will listen to it, I will let you know." do not guarantee."

Lin Fan saluted: "General Li is willing to do his best to persuade him to surrender. I am very grateful."

Qin Luan went out of the cell, went to get a set of pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and sent them back to the cell.

Li Jie took it, sat cross-legged on the ground, and wrote a long letter.

While writing, weeping.

Tears dripped on the paper, stained with ink, and melted again.

After he stopped writing and dried it, Li Jie handed the letter to Lin Fan.

Lin Fan and Qin Luan saluted again and walked outside.

Behind them was Li Jie crying loudly.

The cry was sad, like the wind rustling, Qin Luan felt sad when he heard it, let alone Li Jie himself.

Such is the collapse of faith.

Everything that was once steadfast is now "worthless", as if those days and nights of fighting for it have become a joke.

However, if a person is still alive, he must continue to walk.

Standing up bloodied, the joke is someone else's, and the person who has to be worthy is always himself.

Lin Fan and Qin Luan returned to the big tent.

He gave Li Jie's persuasion letter to Yongning Hou for review.

Hearing the news, Feng Zhong and Liu Ben hurried over to read the letter.

This letter from Li Jie is very long.

His characters are also large, so there are more than a dozen sheets of paper.

In the letter, he recalled the experience of practicing martial arts and military training with like-minded friends in the early years, counted the battles he had experienced, and focused on the Yushakou defeat.

He has realized what it is that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and defeat is a reasonable thing.

After being captured, he waited for the news that Mingsha Pass had been lost.

What made him even more distressed was the chaos in the court.

Although Xizhou is difficult to attack, the people of Zhou are determined to conquer it to the end. Even if it is a long siege, they will not give up the only chance to break the city after more than ten years.

Even if the people of the Great Liang Dynasty are scattered, and Xizhou sticks to it, it will come to the day when all aid is exhausted.

It would be better to surrender to Kaesong to save the people from suffering.

After reading it, Feng Zhong heaved a long sigh.

What is weeping blood every word, this is it.

The ink dots moistened by tears are not the blood dripping from the heart.

Being able to force a loyal, courageous and righteous man like Li Jie to help the enemy army persuade him to surrender shows the scars in his heart.

The emperor of Xiliang and those courtiers really don't care about human affairs!

Thinking of this, Feng Zhong quietly glanced at Marquis Yongning, then at Lin Fan, and quickly turned his gaze back.

That decree...

What are these things!

Feng Zhong couldn't help it, and let out another long sigh.

"I hope that Yu Bo can understand the difficulties and feelings in Li Jie's letter," Feng Zhong said, "open the city gate early."

After all, no matter how easy it is to defend but difficult to attack, a city is always a city, and there will be many people in the city.

People live, they need to eat and drink water.

If Da Zhou didn't care about gains and losses, and just swallowed Xizhou City wholeheartedly, Xiliang had no intention of rescue anyway, just besieging the city and cutting off the water would consume the entire city to death.

However, as long as there is a chance, no one wants to go to that step.

The siege of the city is always a "notoriety", and it will also disgust the people here.

And as a big border town, the most important thing to lose is the hearts of the people.

Otherwise, even if it is attacked for a while, a half-dead city and the people who want to revolt anytime and anywhere will be a big trouble for the court and the garrison.

The quicker the battle, the better.

Put the letter of persuasion into an envelope and take it to Mingsha Pass first by Feng Zhong.

Liu Ben also made preparations, and when there were no outsiders in the tent, Fang Tian walked in quickly.

"The little one has seen the second lady and the eldest son," he said, "we exchanged news, and they asked the little one to report back, saying that there is nothing to worry about, they will settle down and actively inquire about the situation. Normally, Mrs. Hou and the others should also On the way."

Marquis Yongning nodded, and said to Qin Luan: "It's getting late, hurry up and rest, and at dawn tomorrow, go to Mingsha Pass with your father and Lin boy."

Qin Luan agreed.

After driving for so long, I thought I was exhausted.

Right now, I don't have to travel day and night, and I don't have to worry about the road conditions. It is said that I can sleep well.

Unfortunately, after lying down for a long time, Qin Luan did not feel sleepy.

When she was still in the capital, she had thought about what it would look like, the city walls and the lonely moon, but she hadn't had the chance to take a good look at it when she really set foot on this land.

In the first night of Feimenguan, she stayed awake for a long time.

In the early morning of the next day, Qin Luan took the reins and got on the horse.

The morning light was behind them, and they rode their horses all the way west.

　There will be an update tomorrow~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)