"Do you regret staying in this city?" Li Su's voice was very far away, as if he was asking Jiang Quan through a layer of impenetrable fog, as if he was asking himself.

"No regrets" Jiang Quan red eyes and gritted his teeth, but the firmness in his eyes never dissipated.

"Why don't you regret it?"

"How can I regret it if I defend my territory and fight against the enemy, serve my family and country, even if I die, I will not change my ambition?"

Li Su nodded. He had walked ten miles outside the city. As long as he didn't look back, he might be sitting in the lobby of the Yumen Pass Guard, drinking grapes easily and comfortably, and making a memorial without panic, explaining the reasons for having to abandon Xizhou. Li Shimin might be angry, disappointed, or issued an order to remove his official position and no longer use it. However, at least his life was saved and he could live the life he wanted in Taiping Village with no responsibility or bonds. He used the little knowledge of his previous life to ponder some fresh things that were not in this era, and be a rich and enjoyable rich man.

However, after walking ten miles outside the city, he turned around.

This decision is still regarded by him as the stupidest thing he has done in his life. However, if time goes back and let him choose at the fork in his life, perhaps he will still choose to turn back.

Since you are stupid, just go to the end.

Outside the city, the sound of horse hooves seemed to be close to each other. The enemy temporarily retreated, not knowing when the next siege will be, and not knowing whether the city itself can still be defended by the next siege.

"I should send someone out of the city..." Li Su murmured: "I'm dead, I should report a letter to my family. If I go to the underworld in the future, I can teach my dad to burn more paper money for me, otherwise I won't have the capital to do business..."

Jiang Quan was silent for a moment and sighed sadly: "I don't have to report the news. When I left Chang'an, I kowtowed to my parents. At that time, I knew that Xizhou was not peaceful. I told my parents that if I didn't come back, I would die. Fortunately, there were two brothers in my family, so I could do my best to do my filial piety for me, and I have no regrets."

Li Su smiled bitterly: "You have two brothers, but I am the only one in the family. If my father was as honest as he was when he was young, and had never owed romantic debts to give birth to an illegitimate child or something, I am afraid no one will send him to him in this life..."

Jiang Quan looked full of guilt: "Li Biejia, it was Mo General who dragged you down. If it weren't for Mo General's insistence on staying to defend the city, I'm afraid you wouldn't come back. In fact, I also know that this city cannot be defended after all, but if you can't defend, you still have to defend it. I am just a vulgar martial artist. I don't know much about it. I only know that defending the land and fighting against the enemy is the duty of the general. Whether it can defend or not has nothing to do with duty. The city is the city of the Tang Dynasty. People are people of the Tang Dynasty. Since they are in this city, they must guard it or not, and they will not stop until death..."

Li Su smiled bitterly: "Yes, you will stop until death. You are really keeping your word. There are 5,000 people guarding the city, but now there are less than 500 people left, and they will stop until death. To be honest, I still don't agree with your approach, but I still stay with you to defend the city... because I am very sick. General Jiang, you did not drag me down. I was the one who walked out of this city at the time, and I was also the one who came back. No one forced me. Everything was my own decision. Since I was back, I had my own plans to die. Although I was not willing to die, I will die."

Jiang Quan hesitated for a while and said, "Li Biejia, the enemy's attacks the city for half a month, but in fact, they have always surrounded three queu and one. On the side of the release, the last general sent scouts to investigate, and there were no ambush at all, which means they did not intend to put us to death. Li Biejia is the only son in the family. It is logical that he should not have participated in this battle, and the Tang Dynasty did not have the rules to let his only son participate in the war. If you can accompany us to this point today, you are already an amazing man. At this time, the city cannot be guarded anymore. Li Biejia is better off leaving the city east..."

Li Su looked at him with a funny look: "Of course I wish I could leave this ghost place, but if I leave the city, what about you?"

Jiang Quan sighed: "The last general said that defending the territory and fighting against the enemy is the duty of the general, so we will naturally stop until death."

Li Su patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "Heroic hero, I will be a deserter, to highlight your greatness, right? I won't let you go. If I want to leave, I will not come back after leaving the city. Since I come back, I will not leave easily..."

Reducing his smile, Li Su looked up at the blue sky, with a few dazzling white clouds floating in the sky.

"More than 4,500 pairs of eyes are looking at me in the sky. How can I walk? The more robes die, the more robes and responsibilities I have, I can't walk anymore. Now it's not a matter of not defending the city or not. I always have to do something to let the more than 4,500 robes and General Xiang's spirits in the sky see what they did during their lifetime. I will continue to do what they did until death, and I will stop until death. In this way, I will be worthy of the dead brothers and myself..."

Jiang Quan thought for a while and said with a smile: "Don't be a talented man from Chang'an. These words are exactly what I thought in my heart, but I don't know what to say. Yes, the brothers' spirits in heaven are watching us. I can't leave anymore, but I'm sorry to leave."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and then, they seemed to have nothing to say.

Li Su looked up at the white clouds in the sky silently, and her mood was surprisingly calm.

In fact, there are still many unwilling things. What should I do with my father at home? Xu Mingzhu should have returned to Taiping Village and was waiting for him to go home. There is also Dongyang. She must be sitting by the river beach every day, in a daze, waiting for him. She really wants to turn into a light breeze and fly back. She tells her who is waiting by the river beach, don’t wait, go back...

After three years in this world, I have unknowingly had so many ties, and I have wrapped my fingers around my heart, making me so reluctant to let go of death and unwilling to accept it...

The rumbling drums sounded again, and the wind and clouds in the world changed color, murderous aura was everywhere, and the battle clouds were covered with clouds.

Li Su sighed, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then picked up a spear that no one had left behind from the ground.

Yes, he was weak. Before death was about to come, no matter how strong he could stand up to be a hero who looked like a hero who was ready to die, tears still shed involuntarily in his eyes. Li Su was just an ordinary person, who was afraid of death, cowardly, greedy, and a little bullying of the weak and the strong. He was all the worldly fireworks, no one was better than anyone else. When the shadow of death really enveloped his head, tears of fear would still flow down disobediently and unyieldingly.

However, he still held the spear in his hand tightly, which was a shiny in his human nature that was slightly different from that of ordinary people.

No matter how afraid you are, you don’t escape or compromise.

Standing up with difficulty, Li Su slowly looked around the hundreds of remaining soldiers on the city, and his eyes finally fell on Wang Bao.

Wang Bao had many injuries, more than twenty parts of the size. The long and short knife edges covered the front, chest and back, and the whole person was already shaking a little. Kong Wu's powerful body was hunched over like an old man in the evening.

Li Su's eyes were full of guilt, but Wang Bao grinned at him without caring, as honest and harmless as usual.

"Making achievements, huh? Do you regret it? Crying and shouting to come to Xizhou with me, thinking about making achievements, and being awarded an official title, but you lost your life. You lost a lot of money for this deal." Li Su laughed.

Wang Zong also smiled: "Don't regret it. Don't forget that I am also a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, or a soldier of the Modao Camp. It is the duty to defend the territory and fight the enemy. If you die here, Your Majesty will not treat my parents badly. The only regret is that you can't let your aunt leave me a seed. It's a pity to think about it. Fortunately, there is a second and fourth child in the family, and the Wang family will never be able to do it."

Li Su smiled and patted his shoulder. Perhaps he happened to pat the wound, and Wang Zong was in pain and took a deep breath.

Turning around and looking at Zheng Xiaolou, Li Su also smiled at him.

Zheng Xiaolou's expression was still hard and smelly like a stone in the pit, and even his eyes were squinting and squinting.

Li Su sighed: "I saved your life at the beginning. Today, you give me the bento, peck and drink, and the cause and effect will be counterproductive. If you have the fate in the next life, you will be brothers."

Zheng Xiaolou curled his lips slightly, laughing, then nodded and clenched the knife in his hand.

The drums of the march outside the city became more and more rapid. Li Su tightened the blood-stained spear in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, we're on the way."

Putting a bow and pulling the strings, only more than forty thunderstorms remained in the palm of your hand, and the five hundred remaining soldiers stood straight on the head of the city like green pine trees that never fall, using the last bit of strength and last will of the rest of their lives, and doing their last bit of effort.

The sound of the marching drums became more and more rapid, and there were still a tide of black heads outside the city, neatly arranged in formations, waiting for the final horn to attack the city.

Unexpectedly, the drum sound came to an abrupt end at the most rapid moment, and the enemy troops outside the city stood still in the formation.

After a long time, the central army separated from left and right, giving up a wide avenue. A middle-aged man wearing a green robe with a headscarf on his head rode out and walked towards the city gate without any haste.

When they were about one mile away from the city, Li Su narrowed her eyes, finally saw the appearance of the visitor, and then smiled.

Putting the spear in his hand diagonally beside the arrow pile, Li Suchang smiled and clasped his fists to him from afar: "That brother hasn't seen him for many days, and he has been missing for a long time."

The person who came was Nayan, a merchant from Kucha, and Nali, the prime minister of Kucha.

Then he was not afraid of the cold arrows aimed at him on the top of the city. He rode alone towards the city gate as if he had entered a no-man state, and he didn't even care about entering the range of the bow and arrow.

Until ten steps away from the city gate, almost breathable, the distance was so close that the horse was strangled and looked up at Li Su on the top of the city.

Before he could speak, he sighed, and said sadly: "Li Biejia, I thought you were a smart person, and smart person should not be here at this moment."

Li Su smiled and said, "Don't mention you, even I always thought I was very smart, but I didn't realize until today that I was not smart."

Na Yan raised his head, looked at Li Su's smile, and said deeply: "Why don't you leave? You know very well that this city cannot be defended, and you have to pay such a great price. What is the purpose of guarding a city that you know it cannot be defended? This is not your character."

Li Su pointed to the hundreds of soldiers beside him and smiled and said, "Who told me that these people around me are not smart? This stupid thing may be an infectious disease. I was infected by them, and they didn't leave, so I didn't leave either."

Na Yan shook his head: "Li Biejia, you and I have known each other for more than a year. Putting aside our own masters, you and I should at least be friends. Can you tell your friends a few truths?"

Li Su's smile gradually calmed down, she lowered her head and looked at the Yan under the city wall, and said sadly: "I can't leave. Too many people have died. They all looked at me from the sky to see if I will turn around and run away cowardly. I... can't leave. If I leave, my life is worse than death."

Na Yan sighed without saying a word, lowered his head, unable to see the expression on his face.

Li Su glanced at the commander-in-chief of the enemy's central army formation in the distance, and suddenly sneered: "Brother, your master will let you ride alone under the city gate. Could it be to let us chat and reminisce about the past?"

Na Yan raised his head and bowed to the top of the city, saying, "I am here to ask for something..."

"Please say that, brother."

After organizing the wording, he said slowly: "Xizhou was originally the Xizhou of Gaochang State. Li Biejia said without any worries that it is not reasonable to defend this city, and it is not worth dying for this city..."

Li Su shook his head and said, "No, Xizhou City is built with the Tang Dynasty's government office, and the soldiers guarding the Tang Dynasty's Guanzhong government soldiers, and the officials and the people are also Tang people. Therefore, this city is the city of the Tang Dynasty. As for its deliberate plan, it is something that the Lord Gaochang and His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty should discuss. Our duty as a minister is to guard the border for His Majesty the Emperor."

Na Yan sighed and said, "Yes, who belongs to Xizhou? That is what the lord and your Emperor of Tang should discuss. Our army commander Amurdun sent me to come. I just want to tell you one thing. From the siege to today, Amurdun has been using the method of surrounding the three quotas and one. The side of the release is your vitality. As long as you give up Xizhou, our army will definitely be in danger and leave without any mistakes..."

Li Su narrowed his eyes: "What your chief general means..."

"As long as you leave and give up the city of Xizhou, Amurdun will let you go. He will swear in the name of the True God that he will never pursue, never kill, and give you food and water."

Li Su blinked and said, "Since your general is so polite, why not just be more polite and just withdraw your troops and return home?"

Na Yan shook his head and said, "Xizhou, the lords of all countries are determined to win. Its position is too important and must not be controlled by the Tang people. But you, the soldiers guarding the Tang Dynasty, Amurdun, don't want to make things difficult for you... They say they don't want it, but they actually dare not. Capturing Xizhou is considered to offend His Majesty Tian Khan. If they slaughter his warriors again, Amurdun and the lords of the Western Regions will not be able to bear the thunder and anger of His Majesty Tian Khan..."

Li Su sneered: "More than 4,000 brothers in robes have died. Now I say I dare not offend me. Isn't it too late?"

Na Yan shook his head and said seriously: "It's not too late to go back to war and return to harmony, which is not the same thing. His Majesty Tian Khan can understand, but if all the countries in the Western Regions kill you, that's another matter. The lords of all the kings of the country do not want to do it, and they dare not do it."
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