One person guards the lonely city, invincible in the world

Chapter 27 I found the hottest seed in the Central Plains

at dusk.

In the courtyard of the Border City Mansion, the flags of birds and beasts fluttered high in the courtyard, magpies and crows perched on the trees, and a doctor hurried over with a medicine box.

"General Zhang, where is he?" Lang Zhong noticed the withered dog as soon as he entered the hall.

"Save him, he is not a barbarian." Zhang Yifang finished speaking and helped Liu Shang to sit down.

Liu Shang was trembling all over, and his shriveled thighs couldn't help shaking. He was not afraid of death, but the story of the isolated city of Anxi was not written down, so he can't close his eyes now.

The doctor stretched out a hand to press his wrist, Liu Shang dodged subconsciously, thinking that this is not the purgatory of the Western Regions, he showed a simple and honest smile.

Zhang Yifang stared at the smile, turned his head slightly, his nose was sore.

"It's okay, I'll get you the medicine." With a calm face, Lang Zhong took out the sticky pill and forced it into his mouth, and then signaled Zhang Yifang with his eyes for an excuse.

"The body is on the verge of limit, the viscera and blood are exhausted, and only the will supports it."

Lang Zhong's face was pale, and he had never seen a patient with such a terrible will in his decades of practice.

"We must save him!" Zhang Yifang strangled Langzhong's shoulders, pleading.

"He died after taking his last breath. I can only hold off for a few days. General Zhang hurriedly sent him to Liangzhou."

Lang Zhong shook his head.

"There is no cure?" Zhang Yifang wept bitterly. The tragic Anxi couldn't add another heroic soul. He just crawled back to the Central Plains from despair.

Seeing that General Zhang's pain didn't seem fake, Lang Zhong hesitated for a moment, and said bluntly:

"Unless the descendants of Medicine King Sun Simiao are willing to come out of the mountain, but he lives in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain and doesn't care about the world."

"That's good." Zhang Yifang turned his sorrow into joy, "Remember to keep it secret."

"General Zhang, if the descendants of the King of Medicine don't bow down to the powerful, the emperor won't move." Lang Zhong reminded tactfully when he parted.

"Is he a descendant of Yan and Huang?" Zhang Yifang asked.

"Of course..." Lang Zhong was puzzled by General Zhang's childish question.

"That's enough!" Zhang Yifang said forcefully, walking back to the hall quickly.

"Ah, oh, oh..." Liu Shang hoarsely gesticulated with his pen. He knew his situation well and just wanted to finish writing.

Zhang Yifang took the brush of rice paper handed over by the guard, and said softly, "Slow down."

Liu Shang was lying on the table and writing vigorously, coughing violently from time to time, blood dripping on the rice paper, he gritted his teeth, but tears blurred his vision.

After a full quarter of an hour, the pen fell to the ground, and Liu Shang fell asleep contentedly.

I have fulfilled all my responsibilities.

It's time to rest.

so tired.

"Sent to Liangzhou overnight, if the hero dies on the way, I will kill you!"

Zhang Yifang glared at his cronies, and Liangzhou asked the imperial doctor to continue his life, waiting for the descendants of the medicine king.

"Obey!!" The soldiers were decisive, and left the border town with the legend on their backs.

……

In the middle of the night, when the woman with double curly hair approached the study, she heard the sound of suppressed sobbing coming from inside.

"Husband, I'm coming in." She pushed open the door with the food box in hand, "You're in a bad mood?"

"It's okay." Zhang Yifang pretended to be free and easy, but his red eyes showed his emotions.

"My husband and wife, do you still need to pretend?" The woman walked forward, patted the husband's shoulder lightly, and straightened his messy temple hair.

In an instant, the iron-blooded man who was born and died on the battlefield cried into tears in his wife's arms.

"It's so desperate, it's so painful..." Zhang Yifang's body twitched slightly. Even if he was a soldier on the border, he was afraid of being put in the desperate situation of the Anxi Army.

The woman frowned, picked up the blood-stained rice paper, and started browsing from the first row.

When I saw the words "Lonely suspended in the Western Regions, cut off from news for 63 years", my eyes suddenly blurred.

It's as if the dusty long history is coming alive at this moment.

She suppressed her sadness and twitched her fingers lightly.

There were no reinforcements, no rewards, and for countless days and nights in 63 years, Kucha City witnessed the heroic death of [-] Anxi troops, and none of them begged for surrender.

The gray-haired veterans stood at the top of the city, shouting "Nine deaths without regret, vow not to retreat", their cloudy eyes looked towards the east, as if they were looking directly at the sun, as if they were missing their hometown.

They were all dead, only Gu Changan, who dared to beat the drums at the top of the city at the age of seven, was left. He started killing the enemy at the age of ten, and has been...

The woman was almost suffocated, she raised her head and dared not look at the rice paper anymore.

The whole article is full of brisk and simple descriptions, but she clearly sees that every line is filled with "despair"! !

She and Zhang Yifang faced each other and wept.

"There is no food, no aid, people die, and no land is lost."

"The white-haired army is all over the city, and they will never lose the Mo Dao. They have resisted for sixty years, and they dare not forget the Tang Dynasty."

"Chang'an, Chang'an, he is the only one left, all the responsibilities and burdens are left to him, and all the darkness is borne by him..."

Zhang Yifang choked up and could not speak. At the end of the reading, his heart was pierced, and he even hoped that the 23-year-old man would die soon.

Yes, go to hell.

That would be a relief.

Why?
I have never owed anyone anything, so why should I go through hellish torment, why should I be covered in bruises and hold the torch high, why can't I surrender and go to the holy city to enjoy the glory and wealth?

Because I want to defend the territory, because once I retreat, the most tenacious spirit of the Chinese nation will collapse.

So I killed four thousand barbarians by myself, so I sat on the watchtower day and night, so I beat the drums alone, raised the flag alone, and celebrated alone.

"Where's Chang'an?" The woman asked in a trembling voice, suppressing her emotions with difficulty.

Zhang Yifang shook his head. After Liu Shang left the isolated city, he didn't know what happened afterwards. He only knew that the barbarians massacred hundreds of thousands of people and the Western Regions were completely controlled because of Gu Chang'an!

"Are you still alive?" The woman couldn't stop her tears.

The news came back, and dawn broke, that lonely man must not fall on the eve of victory, he should accept the worship of the Chinese nation, he deserves the highest praise.

"I don't know..." Zhang Yifang was silent, but said firmly:
"Bei Liang will definitely bring him back, no matter what!"

"Beiliang?" The woman corrected, wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes:
"You should say the entire Central Plains."

"Yes." Zhang Yifang nodded heavily.

Central Plains will not fail you!

It is you who make the spirit of Huaxia even greater, and you who created an unprecedented legend of the lone brave.

Facing the flaming barbarians, whenever the descendants of Yan and Huang are about to give up, they will think of you who guarded the lonely city alone.

No refund!

No refund! !
"What are you doing in a daze? Go to Beijing!" the woman urged.

Zhang Yifang came back to his senses, carefully folded the rice paper and stuffed it into his lapel, strode out of the study, he suddenly turned around:

"The Anxi army has held on for 63 years without losing an inch of land. Gu Chang'an faced the darkness with a single sword. How can the brilliant Central Plains be bullied by the barbarians?"

"Ma'am, I believe that from now on...

After a long pause, he excitedly said:

"Different offensive and defensive forces, Kou can go, so can I!!!"

The woman smiled like a flower.

……

Liangzhou.

In the twilight of dawn, Zhang Yifang reined in the horse at the city gate, and handed the identity documents to the guards.

"General, wait a moment." The guard left respectfully, and called a seventh-rank captain.

The captain felt confused, clasped his fists and said:

"General, you left your post without authorization and returned to Beijing without an order..."

"The border defense line is well arranged and will not be chaotic." Zhang Yifang took off his helmet and suddenly laughed:
"Why did you go back to Beijing? Because I found one of the most blazing seeds of the Chinese nation, and it's going to start a prairie fire!!"

(End of this chapter)