Chapter 115 Never Regret
Wu De stood at the gate of He Mansion with deep emotion in his heart.
Once upon a time, this street was also bustling with traffic, and the endless stream of visitors once blocked the wide street.
But now, the red paint on the gate is mottled, the bronze animal head has turned black, and the steps are actually covered with moss.
Looking up, above the gatehouse, a few withered thatch plants were swaying slightly in the remaining snow. A wild cat that ran from nowhere poked its head out from behind the plaque with a big hole, and it was green. His eyes were fixed on Wu De.
This is the residence of the former meritorious commander He Qiku, the former commander-in-chief of the 80,000-strong Southern Army.
And now, although he is still alive,
it can actually be considered dead.
A junior colonel guarding the door with a gun seemed to know Wu De.
"Wu Tixing, I haven't seen you here to interrogate this old thief for a long time!" The school captain smiled and greeted him. Wu De was apparently the punishment officer of Dali Temple. He had been ordered to investigate Xiangcheng earlier. During the defeat, I visited He Mansion many times.
The soldiers guarding He Mansion were all carefully selected. As far as Wu De knew, without exception, all of them had relatives who died in the battle in Xiangcheng.
Originally, generals died in hundreds of battles, and soldiers returned after ten years. It was common for soldiers to die on the battlefield, and there was no one to blame.
The problem is that the officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army who came back after the incident all blamed He Qiku, making everyone in Chang'an believe that the defeat of Xiangcheng was entirely due to He Qiku's old age, incompetence and command errors. A battle that should have been a great victory turned into a disastrous defeat.
Being old and not dying is a thief!
The people of Chang'an who had lost their loved ones all wanted to take the culprit to the execution ground immediately and have his body quartered.
"I went on a long trip some time ago!" Wu De said with a smile: "It's still quiet during this time?"
"Quiet!" said the school captain: "But there are always people running over and throwing tiles and bricks inside It’s a dog or a cat, we have limited manpower, and sometimes we can’t catch it!”
Maybe it’s not that we can’t catch it at all, but that we never care or even tolerate it!
Wu De nodded, took out the document from his arms and handed it to the soldier, "On business as ordered!"
The captain said they were old acquaintances, but he opened the He read the document carefully before returning it to Wu De.
Looking back, the soldier at the door reached out and pushed the door open.
The door, which had not been opened for an unknown period of time, made an unpleasant creaking sound.
Wu De walked inside.
At the back, the captain's voice came: "Wu Tixing, this matter is clear. You have been interrogating and investigating for more than a year. When will there be a result? Huh? "
Wu De turned around and looked at the young captain's face.
He really wants to tell this child that the old man inside is not your enemy.
But he couldn't say.
Just nodded vigorously, "Soon, soon, all those who have committed crimes will get the punishment they deserve! The skynet is vast, and there is no omission, no one can escape!"< br>
The captain showed a look of relief on his face.
His two brothers died in the Battle of Xiangcheng.
The door closed behind Wu De.
He strode forward.
Yes, everyone who has committed a crime will get the punishment they deserve.
When leaving the fifth underground floor of Heibingtai a few days ago, Dayin Kou Zhong told Wu De coldly that he could go kill a few people.
Every name that came out of Dayin's mouth was not obvious to the public.
But Wu De knew that these people were the culprits of Xiangcheng's defeat.
Of course, to say they are the culprits is to elevate them. They are just the executors, and the operator, even Dayin, is powerless now.
But these executors can still be killed.
If you can’t kill openly, then kill secretly.
No one can treat Heibingtai as a fool,
Even now the Black Ice Platform has lost its former majesty.
But as long as Dayin is still here, Black Ice Platform will never fall.
This killing was Dayin’s warning to those people.
Don’t forget, when the national law cannot sanction you,
there is also the Black Ice Platform. After walking around the screen wall, Wu De saw a huge sand table.
The entire front yard was transformed into an exercise sandbox.
An old man with white beard and hair staggered among the miniature mountains, rivers, and cities. He pulled out the small flags in his hand one after another, inserted them, and murmured to himself.
"General!" Wu De's eyes were a little hot and he strode over.
The old man raised his head and saw Wu De, his eyes shining with joy. Except for a few family members, Wu De was the most outsider he had seen in more than a year.
And he is an outsider who can discuss battlefield gains and losses and command skills with him.
"Wu Tixing is here. I haven't seen you for a long time. Come on, come on. I found out a few more flaws and recorded them. If there is still a chance to fight, I will I will never make such a mistake again." He Qiku took out a thick stack of paper sewn with thread from his arms, turned to the last few pages, and enthusiastically invited Wu De to discuss it.
"General!" Wu De reached out and grabbed the opponent's hands, with sadness in his eyes: "Actually, you have finally figured it out. No matter what you do, no matter how superb your command skills are, This battle will be lost, right?”
The smile on He Qiku’s face froze instantly, and his whole body was completely frozen.
“No, no, this is my problem, my command error!”
"This is not a mistake in your command. This is because some people want this battle to fail and push Great Qin to the point of no return. General, if it weren't for you, the 80,000 Southern Army would have been completely destroyed. Now. No matter what, this new force still exists!" Wu Dedao.
"Without Xiangcheng, we will lose the strategic initiative, and the southern army will only become weaker and weaker!" He Qiku sat down on the ground slumped, crushing a high mountain to the ground.
“You shouldn’t have returned to Chang’an!” Wu De squatted beside him, “You should have stayed in the south and not come back.”
He Qiku glanced at Wu De and said, “Let Have I become like Ling Huye?"
"You are different from him. We know that you are a loyal minister." Wu De sighed: "And this was not said by me, but by Dayin. Yin said that he had sent a message to you at that time, telling you not to come back, but you still came back. Not only did you come back, but you also brought General He Zudao back. If General He Zudao is still in the south, the Southern Army will be suppressed. There is also a backbone!”
"If I don't come back, I will be supporting my own troops. I will be intimidating the court and Your Majesty. How is that different from a traitor?" Where is the town army? Where is the entire southern defense line? Do you know how many people are coveting them now and want to carve them up?" There was endless complaint in Wu De's tone.
At that time, on the fifth floor underground, Dayin Kou Zhong was scolding the sky and it was extremely painful.
It is said that the state of Qin is like perishing, how miserable he is and his sins will not be forgiven.
He Qiku sat there for a long time, then shook his head: "I'm different from Kou Zhong. I can't do what he can do. He worked hard for half his life, but only the word "innocent" remains. ”
Wu De sneered: "If those people win in the end, history will be smeared by them at will. General, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to keep the word innocence."
"The matter is now over, husband and wife. What's the matter? Wu Tixing, you shouldn't be here just to scold me, right?" He Qiku said.
Wu De shook his head, "Some time ago, I went to Guanwai. There, I met an old acquaintance of yours. He asked me to bring a few words to you."
"Guanwai? I have no friends outside the customs!"
"Maybe not friends!" Wu Dedao: "The man asked me to ask you, do you still regret the choice you made twenty-five years ago?" >
He Qi painfully stood up and reached out to hold Wu De's shoulders.
Wu De wanted to stand up, but he pushed himself up. The hands on his shoulders were as heavy as mountains, and he couldn't even move an inch.
It was only then that Wu De realized that he was indeed an old man in his eighties, a prisoner under house arrest awaiting punishment from the court, but at the same time, he was also a peak ninth-grade martial arts master.
"Who? What's that person's name? How could anyone survive that incident twenty-five years ago?" He Qiku's voice was sharp and hoarse, and the nervous look on his face made him laugh. Wu De was a little confused.
“That man’s name is Zhou Zhi, he is an innate master!” Wu De said: “He said that he used to be old friends with you.”
Zhou Zhi, Zhou Zhi!
He Qiku muttered to himself, and shook his head after a long while: "I don't have any memory. Among my memories, there was a man named Zhou, but his martial arts cultivation was only at the eighth level. "
Wu De stared at He Qiku and asked: "General, can you tell me what choice you made? I went to check Hei Bingtai's files, but nothing was found. , I only know that twenty-five years ago, you were the commander of the Zuoying Army of the Chang'an Forbidden Army. The following year, you were transferred to the Southern Army and served as the deputy general of the Southern Army, and you stayed there for more than 20 years."
He Qiku slowly let go of his hand, sat down cross-legged again, and smiled to himself.
"No matter who that person is, he obviously knows something about what happened back then. If you see him again, tell this person, I don't regret it. At least my choice at that time won Daqin twenty more Five years of peace.”
"If you had made another choice, would Daqin have been shaken?"
"I don't know, but there will definitely be rivers of blood!" He Qiku lowered his head. "Some people are born noble. What they see in their eyes is never the same as what people like us see. I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times. I don't regret it. At least I let this generation basically live In a peaceful environment."
"Did Dayin also participate in this matter?" Wu De asked tentatively.
“Why don’t you ask Kou Zhong directly?”
“I don’t dare!” Wu De said honestly.
"It's not just him. The four great innates in Chang'an City were mobilized that year, and Kou Zhong even had one foot in the divine wandering. Unfortunately, after the battle, except for Kou Zhong, the remaining three were all dead!"
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