The opening and Xu Xiao's front

Chapter 22
The sky seemed to shed tears for this afterimage in the world, and heavy snow fell in the sky, as if it had brought an end to this siege battle.
The heavy snow seems to be full of all evils, and the sky and the earth seem to be covered with silver in an instant,
The general on the gate tower was stained with blood, and the swordsman was dressed in blue, which is a rare spectacle in this troubled world.
The benefit of the soldiers and civilians of the Chu army on the tower was reflected. The young and strong in the city spontaneously organized to help the Chu army on the tower, clean up the corpses, clean the battlefield,

On the city tower, corpses were moved down one after another. Zhang Yicai ordered that no matter whether it is the Beiliang army or the Chu army, they are all equal. On the battlefield, they are the two sides of the enemy. something happened,
Which good man is willing to expose corpses in the wilderness and let passing wolves, tigers and leopards devour them. Besides, if the accumulation of corpses is not dealt with, it will form a plague, which will be even more troublesome at that time.

Even Li Chungang was a little moved when he saw the Chu army with limbs and arms, and said to Zhang Yicai who was still holding the flag,

"Have you thought about how to fight? Today is only the first time to attack the city, can you hold it?"

Zhang Yicai wearily planted the flag in his hand on the city wall, looked at the blood-stained "white robe" sent by his subordinates, and said with a heavy heart,

"So what? Could it be that if you don't guard Xu Xiao, you will let Da Chu go? Don't be stupid. Only when Li Yang hurts you can you survive. Do you know what this is?" Zhang Yi shook the "white robe" in his hand. Akira

Li Chungang shook his head, he could only tell that it was a cloak, the blood on it seemed to be new,

Zhang Yicai slowly raised the "White Robe" and hung it on the Chu army's flag. The blood wiped out its original color, and it was more like a blood robe than a white robe.
Hanging a white robe on the flag means surrender, but hanging a blood robe on the flag means bloody battle,
After hanging up the blood robe, Zhang Yicai talked about the owner of the white robe with a heavy heart,

"He, a fool, tied himself to the city wall in order to guard the south gate. The Beiliang army below the city rushed up madly. He was stabbed more than a dozen times, and was nailed to death by Chen Zhibao in the end. city ​​gate,

At the last moment before he died, he was still shouting to kill the thief. Do you think such a person is stupid?Stupid right?It's really stupid to give your life for a group of selfish people." After Zhang Yicai said these words, his eyes were slightly red, and tears streamed down his face.

Li Chungang has no way to answer this question, Li Chungang is an open-minded person, but at this moment he also felt Zhang Yicai's sadness,
Zhang Yicai continued, "Actually, halfway through the battle, I knew that I couldn't defend anymore. My guards were too small. Those young and strong soldiers who joined the army enthusiastically couldn't be transformed into well-trained elites immediately.
On the other hand, the Liyang army is constantly coming here, all of them are elites, and we have no soldiers to send here. I overestimated myself and human nature.
The rations and grass in the city were also hidden by those big families. They have already made up their minds. The soldiers and civilians in the city now eat all my rations, which are less than three months old.

Of the four city gates, if you hadn’t come, two would have been broken. The city gate guards, four guards, and three died. Chen Pao was crucified on the city gates, and Liang Bo died of exhaustion on the city gates. , Xiang Jin was hacked to death with random knives, saying that he won, but it was almost the same as losing. "

Zhang Yicai reached out his hand to catch a piece of goose feather heavy snow, and said with some emotion,

"I wish I could still see spring"

On the way here, Li Chungang heard rumors about Zhang Yicai. Some people said that he was the last hope of the great Chu, and some said that he was a man from heaven. Just a boy.

Even if he has gone through many trials and hardships and battles, he can't change his age. Looking at Zhang Yicai's young face, yes!He is only 17 years old, and he will carry the big Chu on his shoulders, and the hope of the 10,000+ soldiers and civilians behind him,

Zhang Yicai's last hole card has been used, and there is a blizzard in the sky. It is his handwriting. This is exactly the Blizzard Talisman he drew from a random spell in the store before.
When Zhang Yicai opened it, he already planned to use it as the last card.
Blizzard Talisman: It can summon a blizzard that lasts for three days, corresponding to the world here. If the weather is winter, the blizzard will not stop within three months. Please keep warm.

The heavy snow in the sky seemed to never stop. It fell for three consecutive days. The wounds caused by the previous war were all buried in the snow.

Li Chungang left, or he shouldn't have come in the first place. In just three days, Zhang Yicai already felt the complexity of the situation in the city.

Of course Li Chungang is not afraid, but Zhang Yicai's heart has already started to leak out. The Emperor Chu has been poisoned, and the three thousand sword attendants of the empress in the palace have surrounded the palace tightly. The little eunuch is standing at the gate of the palace,

Maybe they couldn't beat Li Chungang in the front, but in secret, no matter how high Li Chungang's cultivation was, he couldn't stop the insidiousness of the family. Zhang Yicai forcibly expelled Li Chungang,
A generation of sword gods shouldn't be involved in such dirty things of their own infighting,
Great Chu has been established for so many years, and there are also aristocratic families who are willing to live and die with Great Chu, such as the Ye family, such as the Cao family. By the way, Zhang Yicai moved "Xu Weixiong" to the palace early,

After Zhang Yicai went through this battle, all the elites in his hands were wiped out, the camp was destroyed, the Zhuge Liannu army defeated the establishment, Jiangdong's disciples died on the city wall along with Xiang Jin,

With the intervention of more and more children from aristocratic families who joined the army under the banner of joining the army, Zhang Yicai's control over the army has dropped to the extreme. Gathered three Vajra Realm, one Zhixuan, and nearly [-] descendants of the aristocratic family,

The snow is falling harder and the weather is getting colder, but what is colder than the weather is the human heart,

Zhang Yicai was stationed on the city wall, and he was still loyal to his troops. In this snowy season, he was still wearing autumn clothes.

They were covered with sieves, even the wounds on their bodies hadn't healed, and they were covered in bruises, but they still guarded the posts Zhang Yicai ordered,

Suddenly, in the heavy snow, there was the sound of a knife being unsheathed, and a group of men in black quietly touched the city wall. The sound just now was made by them.
"Well……"

With a flash of a knife, a soldier's throat was slashed. The throat that was cut open was the season of heavy snow, and it turned into ice slag, taking away a young life.

Those men in black were like messengers of the night, silently killing all the soldiers outside,

He didn't stop until he was in front of Zhang Yicai. When he saw Zhang Yicai, a man walked out from the group of men in black. He pulled off his hat, and it was Jin Zhe.
Zhang Yicai looked at Jin Zhe expressionlessly, a trace of guilt flashed across Jin Ze's face, he still bowed his hands and said to Zhang Yicai as before,

"General, Your Majesty ordered that from today onwards, you will be relieved of all duties and put in prison."

Zhang Yicai didn't resist when he heard the words, and slowly took off his armor, asking calmly while taking it off,

"Jin Zhe, who gave you this idea? Li Yishan? Nalan Youci? Or Yuan Zuoxi?"

It was snowing heavily outside the house, but Jin Zhe was sweating profusely. Jin Zhe knelt on the ground and kowtowed and said,

"General, don't worry, I will keep you safe."

Faced with this great gift, Zhang Yicai just raised his eyelids and continued to repeat that sentence,

"Li Yishan? Nalan Youci? Or Yuan Zuoxi?"

Jin Zhe just kept silent and kowtowed, Zhang Yicai already had the answer in his heart, turned around and left with the men in black, leaving only Jin Zhe kowtowing and pleading guilty,
The dungeon is gloomy and humid, snakes and rats are rampant, even the candlelight is dim, and the condemned prisoners are discussing the big man who just came in today,
In a prison cell, Zhang Yicai was locked in a cell alone, his whole body was chained by black iron, his body energy dropped again and again, two hooks shining with cold light broke through Zhang Yicai's lute bone,

There are voices of discussion everywhere in the cell,

"Master Tiger, how long has it been? It seems that few people have enjoyed this kind of treatment since the founding of the country. What crime do you think he committed?"

An old prisoner who was obviously older than the other prisoners pointed at Zhang Yicai as he stroked his beard and boasted,

"Based on the old man's knowledge! I haven't seen it either"

After the old prisoner said this sentence, the group of prisoners who gathered together to discuss sighed.
"Master Tiger, you have lived so many years in vain! Don't you always say that you used to be an official? Everyone in the court knew each other, why didn't you know this one? Are you lying to us?" The next bold public joke the old prisoner,
Because the old prisoner is also a thin-skinned man, unable to withstand such a stimulus, his face flushed and trembling, he leaned on the railing and walked to a position next to Zhang Yicai and asked,

"Little brother, what did you do to get in here? I was also from the Criminal Department back then. I haven't seen this criminal law for many years. Can I tell you something?" The old prisoner asked Zhang Yicai in an official tone.

But for a long time, Zhang Yicai didn't say a word, his eyes stared at the ground silently, the blood in his mouth seemed to flow endlessly,

The old prisoner followed Zhang Yicai's gaze, and was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. Other prisoners insisted and surrounded him one after another. The old prisoner said tremblingly,

"Tongue, tongue, this is the punishment of tongue cutting!"

Hearing this, other prisoners also looked towards the floor of Zhang Yicai's cell. Sure enough, a piece of bright red tongue fell on the ground, and everyone put away their curiosity.
Pull the old prisoners away from Zhang Yicai. If you want to live in this prison for a long time, you must stay away from these heinous criminals. What a suffering!
The subject of their discussion, Zhang Yicai, was at peace like never before, because all his strength had already been exhausted, his lute bone was pierced, and his tongue was cut. During this day, the pain he suffered was beyond words.
All he has now is pain and hatred. His tongue was cut off by those families who wanted to surrender. They also brought a piece of news,
The emperor of Chu is dead, the empress is also dead, the Ye family is gone, the Cao family is gone, Li Yang and Da Chu reached an agreement, Da Chu proclaims his ministers, and makes offerings every year, Jiang Bi becomes the new emperor, Cao Changqing comes back,

And there must be a price for the agreement, and this price is to defeat the tens of thousands of troops in Liyang and Zhang Yicai who carried Beiliang for three months. Zhang Yicai, who had served in the defense of the country, was exchanged as a price.
What he got in exchange was just a humiliated lingering life. That's it, those worlds are still complacent.

Later, the storyteller’s General Regret wrote,

"Zhang Yicai" went out last night to sacrifice his head to the city,

But who knows that the person pretending to be him is the traitorous Jin Zhe. The betrayal is for loyalty to the country, and the replacement is for devotion to duty and to be worthy of her own heart. Maybe he is dead after all our guards are killed in battle.

As for Zhang Yicai who was trapped in the prison, he didn't know whether to hate him or not, who should he hate?Hate those families?Or hate yourself for being incompetent? ,
After Zhang Yicai went through this series of ups and downs, his state of mind also changed accordingly. The most obvious thing is that his realm has entered the Vajra Realm.

But if he was allowed to choose, he would rather not have martial arts and realm, but also want to stand upright and die on the city wall.

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(End of this chapter)