The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 673 The end of the road, a desperate fight

"My brother is dead, and my apprentice is also dead..." In Wanqiu City, Wang Bodang's body was placed in front of Li Mi. Wang Bodang's face was very calm, and he seemed to be walking very peacefully, without a trace of pain. .

Even if life and death were ignored, Li Mi also shed two lines of tears at this time. He looked at the expressions of everyone and said slowly: "I, Li Mi, have gone through the path I should walk in this life. I have won and lost. , I have been brilliant, I have been down... I have been the emperor for a few months, but I have never surrendered, and I don't want to surrender... I take anti-Sui as my lifelong ambition. If I surrender to the Sui, I will become a laughingstock through the ages The grandchildren of Yang Guang are broad-minded. Therefore, even if Yang Tong spares my life, I don’t want to live in fear like Xiao Xian and Dou Jiande. But this is my own decision, Li Mi. From now on, Wanqiu The gates of the city are wide open, and those who want to leave, I will never force them to stay."

"Who dares to leave?" Sun Changle, who knelt in front of Uncle Wang's body and wept silently, said loudly, "I will kill whoever dares to leave."

"Presumptuous!" Li Mi looked at Sun Changle with serious eyes, and said sharply: "This is my decision, officials, soldiers and common people are not allowed to stop it."

"Here."

Sun Changle responded unwillingly.

Li Mi didn't say much, but picked up Wang Bodang's body, went straight back to the back house, and put him in the coffin himself.

And the gate of the city was indeed kept open all night as he ordered.

In the early morning of the next day, when Li Mi was beating the drums to raise the account, except for Sun Changle and other direct henchmen and Fang Xuanzao, all of them had left cleanly. Of the original 3000 soldiers in the city, only more than [-] soldiers of the internal army remained. .

"Why don't you leave, sir?"

"Why did Weichen leave?"

"Haha, good question." Li Mi laughed heartily and said, "It seems that I, Li Mi, have not failed too much in life, and there are still so many people who are willing to accompany me through this final journey. The soldiers of the Great Wei, follow me out of the city for a decisive battle .”

"The last will obey."

……

When the Wei army left the city, Yang Tong knew about it and dispatched the most elite Xuanjia army. Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Yu Chigong, Xue Wanche, and Niu Jinda each led a guard, and Su Dingfang, Du Fuwei, Yao Junsu, Xin Liaoer, and Li Zhengbao Wait for all the generals to go into battle.

The splendor of troubled times does not lie in the chaos, but the heroes who stand out in the chaos of war. They either fight for glory, or fight for the appreciation of their lord, and die without regret, or they may fight for the generals. They cherish each other and fight desperately.

But no matter what, the world has gone from chaos to great order. In addition to the deaths of countless people, there are also countless elites of the era who died for the hero in their minds and for the glory of their ideals.It is these people who bathed in blood on the battlefield that Shengsheng was born
Perhaps no one will remember their devotion and loyalty in the future, but their lives are clear and vigorous.As for how future generations comment, they may never have cared about it.

The soldiers of the Sui and Wei dynasties fought for the Ming Lord they recognized and for their own glory. They just chose differently, and there was no difference between right and wrong.

Some people may say that they are stupid, but it is this stupidity that allows this nation to straighten itself again and again when life and death come, and keep youth forever.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The two sides started a bloody fight outside the city, the blood mist filled the sky, the shrill screams were like death laughing in the sky, a piece of soldiers were chopped down and trampled like straw, their necks were cut off, and their heads rolled to the ground. The ground was covered with muddy flesh and blood.

Limbs and arms are everywhere, corpses are everywhere, and blood flows like rivers.

The eyes of both the enemy and ours are bloodshot. Although the soldiers of the Wei Army are fighting to the end, the Xuanjia Army is one in a million brave men. For them, it is commonplace to attack tough battles. Their combat effectiveness is not only in equipment, Combat experience and physical fitness crushed the Wei army in almost all aspects. Under the leadership of a member of the generals and generals, they were invincible and fought bloody roads.

Even the ordinary soldiers of the Xuanjia Army are comparable to the captains of the Wei Army in combat effectiveness, and they are also good at coordinating combat, and they are more than enough to attack and protect themselves.Not to mention that Luo Shixin, Yu Chigong, Pei Xingyan, Xue Wanche, Niu Jinda and other fierce generals are fighting desperately. Although the soldiers of the Wei army fought desperately, courage is not equal to combat power. From the beginning of the fight, they were in an extremely passive situation.

Therefore, although the battle was extremely fierce and bloody, it did not last long.

In less than half an hour, the war was over.

Except for the lonely Li Mi and Fang Xuanzao, none of the Wei army survived, and none escaped. They all died in battle on this land that was poured red with blood.

"Your Majesty, I'm going to take a step first." Fang Xuanzao bowed to Li Mi.

Li Mi smiled slightly, "Okay, I'll be there later."

Fang Xuanzao took out a porcelain bottle from his cuff, and drank the liquid medicine that he had prepared in one gulp. After a while, blood flowed from his mouth, and he fell to the ground with a smile on his face.

Yang Tong walked up to Li Mi on foot, and looked at the hero. Li Mi was only in his forties this year, but he was already as old as a sixtieth old man, and said with emotion: "Pu Shan Gong, we finally met."

"Yes, we finally met." Li Mi looked at Yang Tong who was walking slowly, and said loudly: "I, Li Mi, don't have many people to admire. In the past, there were only Taiwei Yang Su, but now you are one more. Emperor Shengwu, congratulations You, you win."

Yang Tong sighed, "It seems that you have made up your mind."

"In this world, you alone are enough." Li Mi said quite emotionally: "I, Li Mi, am self-proclaimed, and I wasted half my life. I am Li Mi, but Brother Zhai, if he hadn't laid a solid foundation, I might not even have the qualifications to be your enemy, is that right?"

"Zhai Rang has no ambitions, and if he is a little rich, he will be at ease. If he is just an ordinary person, it will be fine, but he happens to be the leader of a party. His kind of thinking is not good. If you are not supporting, Wagang would have been finished. In fact You are not weak at all, but Wagang is a force composed of countless bandits and rogues. It is difficult for you to have a unified order. Every time you fight, you must not only prevent the enemy, but also guard against stabbing your own people in the back , This made you miss a lot of good opportunities. In addition, you are not as straightforward as me and Wang Shichong. If you wholeheartedly rely on the Wagang heroes instead of giving a lot of power and interests that should belong to them to the Kanto gentry, your situation will be even worse. It's better." Yang Tong said lightly.

Li Mi nodded. At this moment, he was indifferent to life and death. He sighed: "What Emperor Shengwu did is exactly the same as Wang Mang. The difficulty is as difficult as reaching the sky, but now it seems that it has succeeded. , Unfortunately, I saw that day."

Yang Tong was silent when he heard the words, he couldn't say anything about surrendering to Li Mi, firstly because Li Mi didn't know how to do it, and secondly because he had to consider the feelings of Luo Shixin and others.

Up to now, Li Mi naturally wouldn't say anything about surrendering. Looking at Fang Xuanzao's body, a gentle look flashed in his eyes, and he smiled rather self-deprecatingly: "There are so many people in my life who are willing to live with me." Brothers who died together, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? I am asking too much."

Yang Tong smiled: "Aren't all people like this?"

"Indeed." Li Mi nodded and said, "I have something to ask."

"You say it."

"I hope you can bury my brothers in peace."

"Your condition is not too much, I promise you."

If there were no corpses all over the floor, the two would not be enemies, but a pair of friends who have forgotten their age.

"Thank you very much." Li Mi saluted solemnly.

Yang Tong accepted the gift calmly, and asked, "Do you want me to give you a ride?"

"No need." Li Mi shook his head, drew out his sword and laid it across his neck.

"Go all the way, 'Go to Quantai to summon the old department, and kill Yama with a hundred thousand banners'."

"Haha, I hope so." Li Mi laughed boldly.

Yang Tong stopped talking, turned around and returned, and behind him, a stream of blood splashed out, Yang Tong seemed to be aware of it and raised his head slightly, looking at the somewhat dark sky, suddenly there was a drop of raindrops on his face, followed by heavy rain Falling from the sky, Yang Tong said in surprise: "It seems that God is also seeing Li Mi off."

Su Dingfang, who was covered in blood, was also surprised by the sudden change, and said, "When I was in the Western Regions, the people there said that once some important people died, it would rain."

"So what about a big man?" Luo Shixin said with a smile, "Isn't it too dead?"

"You're right." Yang Tong said to Luo Shixin with a smile, "I plan to bury Li Mi and his people together. What do you think?"

"Death is like a lamp going out, and everything in the past disappears." Luo Shixin smiled and said, "Li Mi has not lost his heroic demeanor until his death. He is an admirable character. Master is in the spirit of heaven, and he doesn't want my apprentice, a bad guy, to die .”

"Your Majesty." Xie Yingdeng, Cheng Yaojin, and Xu Shiji, who did not participate in the battle, stepped forward to salute.

"Ok?"

"The last general and others had a brotherhood with Li Mi, Wang Bodang, Sun Changle, and Fang Xuanzao, and I would like to ask the Holy Lord to allow the last general to bury them." Xie Yingdeng asked.

"Quite playing." As Luo Shixin said, death is like a lamp going out, of course Yang Tong doesn't care about anything. Xie Yingdeng and the others value love and righteousness, so it's not surprising that they have such a request. If they didn't do this, it would have made Yang Tong felt chilled.

"Thank you for your kindness." Xie Yingdeng and the others breathed a long sigh of relief, and bowed in gratitude.

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So far, the war between the Sui and Wei Dynasties ended with the victory of the Sui Dynasty and Li Mi's suicide. The Wagang Army and the leader of the anti-thief alliance in the Central Plains and the South for more than ten years were completely over.

The war lasted less than two months, and the short duration and quick end were shocking. Although the four counties of Xin'an, Yuhang, Sui'an, and Dongyang in the south were still Li Mi's territory in name, for the Sui Dynasty, the Central Plains, Jianghuai It has already been unified, and most of the world has fallen into the bag, but it is an indisputable fact that the remaining four counties are just in the bag. As long as Zhang Zhenzhou cooperates with Qin Qiong to destroy Lin Shihong, it is only a matter of time before it is recovered. As for Meng Haigong, who only has the two counties of Yongjia and Jian'an, he must not be so stupid as to take food from a tiger's mouth. Even if he did, it would only scatter his limited troops in all directions. good thing.

It's just that the news of Li Mi's death from destroying the country is nothing more than a bolt from the blue to the four remaining forces, Li Yuan, Lin Shihong, Meng Haigong, and Feng An.

(End of this chapter)