[Zhili] stick to this one heart and never leave

"What's the situation now?" Zhi Ming asked.

General Song said, "Yuheng Army Chen Bing is a mile away from the city, and the crowd is passionate, clamoring to avenge their great general."

Murongli and Zhiming looked at each other, "Is the general the one with the ghost face?"

"Exactly," General Song said, "There is something very strange. According to what the Yuheng army said, the general's death seems to be related to us, but in the battle that day, it was obvious that General Xiao was seriously injured. We never looked for them. Trouble, they asked us first instead."

"A Li," Zhi Ming said, "What do you think Zhong Kunyi is planning?"

Murongli thought about it, and said slowly, "Yuyuan said that Luo Min lost his arm that day, if he really died because of it, then he died to save the enemy, wouldn't it be absurd, perhaps... Zhong Kunyi intended to replace him hidden."

Zhi Ming laughed mockingly, "So, he is quite kind?"

Murong Li sneered coldly, "Mr. Zhong has never traded at a loss. Didn't you hear General Song say that Yuheng's army is passionate?"

"It's really a good way to inspire people. Even the dead are used. It's really omnipotent!" Although Zhi Ming hated Luo Min, he couldn't understand how others used the dead to make a fuss.

"How is the defense now?" Murong Li asked.

General Song said, "General Qu took the place of General Xiao and together with General Luo stationed on the gate tower of the Weng City. Vice General Chen, General Zeng and Vice General Qin of Yaoguang were on the arrow tower, and I, General Sun and Yang were stationed on the gate tower. Generals have also been assigned to guard the enemy platform, and to prevent surprise attacks by the Yuheng army, the north gate, east gate, and west gate are guarded by General Qin, Vice General Liu, and General Gu respectively."

After Murongli listened to each one, he nodded and said, "Go back to the tower first."

General Song was taken aback, "Master, the Yuheng army has been clamoring outside, should we not fight?"

Murong Li smiled faintly, "Just shouting?"

"Just yelling."

"Then you guys should rest well and be ready."

"Rest?" General Song felt that he didn't understand very well. They were all approaching the city, but Murongli actually asked them to rest.

Seeing him hesitate, Murong Li smiled and his eyes shone, "They are not in a hurry to attack the city, why are you panicking?"

After sending Song Yun away, Zhi Ming got up and went to Murongli's side, "Does Ah Li think that Luo Min's death is strange?"

Murong Li patted his forehead with a smile, "Why do you ask like that?"

Zhi Ming took Murongli's hand and played with his jade fingers as thin as onions, "When you mentioned him, you said 'If', if there is 'If', does it mean that Ah Li still has 'If not'? '?"

Murongli sighed softly, "I really can't see through the key points, or the news is too sudden, maybe... I don't really hope that he will die just like this."

Zhi Ming raised his eyebrows, embraced Murong Li, looked into his eyes carefully, confirmed that what he said was true, and said softly, "But because of Xiaopang?"

Murongli nodded, his pupils could not bear it, "If he dies like this, Xiaopang will never forget him."

As soon as this remark came out, both of them were silent for a while.

"Brother Murong!"

Yuyuan ran into the house while yelling, Murongli immediately let go of Zhiming, his face blushed slightly, Zhiming smiled softly at him, saw Yuyuan's arm was still dangling slightly on his chest, and taught, " Slow down, you are in such a panic, when will this arm heal? Are you afraid that your little nurse will be angry and ignore you?"

Yuyuan breathed a sigh of relief, her face was full of joy, she didn't even care about Zhiming, "General Xiao is awake!"

Murong Li's eyes lit up, and he walked out, Zhi Ming also heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, looked at the back of the man who was leaving in a hurry, and followed with a smile.

"Does it hurt?" Fang Ye asked softly while changing Xiao Ran's medicine. Xiao Ran was leaning on the head of the bed, just looking at him without blinking, smiling all the time.

Fang Ye blushed and said angrily, "Ask you if it hurts!"

Only then did Xiao Ran come back to his senses, and said softly, "It doesn't hurt."

The imperial physician ordered Zheng Zheng to bring the medicine, and when he heard this meaningless conversation, he couldn't help shivering, handed the medicine to Fang Ye, and kindly reminded, "This medicine must be taken in sufficient quantity and on time to be effective."

As soon as Fang Ye took the medicine and tested its temperature with his lips, he heard the imperial doctor's order and muttered again, "Be careful, my lord, don't fall again, it will be bad if you miss the hour."

Puff...cough cough...Fang Ye was choked, Geng Chen tried his best to endure it, and finally couldn't help laughing, "The imperial doctor can rest assured, with you here, this medicine bowl will not be broken."

Fang Ye blushed even more, and stuffed the medicine bowl into Xiao Ran's hand, "Drink it yourself."

Xiao Ran glared at Geng Chen, and looked at Fang Ye with some embarrassment. Fang Ye saw that his whole body was wrapped in bandages as if he was wearing a tight jacket, and suddenly couldn't bear it anymore. He took the medicine bowl back and automatically shielded him. Drop Geng Chen's seemingly non-existent laughter.

There was a call from outside the door, Murongli just stepped into the door when he saw Xiao Ran struggling to get up, he hurriedly stopped him, "The injury has not healed, don't move around."

Xiao Ran was supported by Fang Ye and lay back down again, choked up and said, "The minister is useless."

"It's not that you are useless, it's that Yaoguang doesn't have a city suitable for defense, even if Axu's father was there..." Just because the emperor was suspicious, Yaoguang walked on thin ice for a hundred years, and Murongli felt a little depressed, " If you hadn't penetrated the formation map this time, Zhong Kunyi would have gone straight to Wangcheng long ago."

"I'm ashamed," Xiao Ran shook his head, "I don't dare to say how to understand the formation map, but I'm just trying to force it."

All kinds of signs showed that Zhong Kunyi's understanding of this battle was indeed better than Xiao Ran's, and Murongli didn't say much, and only told Xiao Ran to rest well.

But Xiao Ran refused to lie down, propped himself up and said, "How's the situation outside now?"

"Ghost Face is about to die, Zhong Kunyi has settled the debt on us and is leading the army to fight!" Yuyuan said.

"What should I do?" When Xiao Ran heard this, he became impatient, only hating himself for being inconvenient to move, "Although Yaoguang Tianquan has no shortage of generals, anyone who can face Zhong Kunyi must be proficient in formation."

"You forgot, I restored that pattern." Murongli smiled calmly, and Zhi Ming was stunned for a moment. He almost had the illusion that this person who was like a banished immortal would go away with the wind. .

Coming out of Xiao Ran's room, Murongli pulled Yuyuan straight to the study, "This is Xiao Ran's military training notes, you can read it too, I can only hold on to Zhong Kunyi for a while, he is going to attack the city sooner or later, I'm afraid we will wait There will be no reinforcements from Qian Yuan and Sun Yan."

After saying that, Murong Li looked at the distant sky, the early summer is fine, after this calamity, let's visit the great rivers and mountains together with Zhi Ming...

He turned his head and saw that Zhi Ming was looking at him for a moment, since he was in Xiao Ran's room just now, he has been silent.

"I thought you would stop me." Murong Li said.

Zhi Ming looked at him and sighed, "Can you stop it?"

Yuyuan looked at the two of them, neither being silent nor speaking, so she could only force herself to calm down and read the book, hoping to find something.

Zhi Ming walked to Murong Li's side, "I'll accompany you, this is my biggest concession, Ah Li, you know I can't let you go to the battlefield alone."

Murong Li stretched out his hand to caress Zhi Ming's face, and was about to speak when Yu Yuan hesitated, "Brother Murong, General Xiao specially trained a group of soldiers for the battle plan?"

"Exactly, it is the one hundred thousand army that Xiao Ran took away back then." Knowing Yu Yuan's intelligence, Zhi Ming said excitedly when he first heard his voice.

"Ghost Face is about to die, and Zhong Kunyi will take command in person. Does that mean that the number of soldiers who have practiced formations on behalf of Yuheng is also a fixed number?"

Murong Li was startled suddenly, and suddenly had the feeling of seeing the sun behind the clouds.

Seeing his expression, Zhiming said happily to Yuyuan, "But did you find it in the notes?"

Yuyuan pursed her lips, "That's not true, I just read these manuals and found that training an army is not easy."

Zhi Ming was slightly puzzled, and suddenly realized, "Since Xiao Ran is not easy, how can Zhong Kunyi be easy?"

Murongli also nodded, "Zhong Kunyi manipulated Yuheng not for the sake of strength from the beginning, but for the battle map, and he attacked Tianji not for the sake of strength, but for the supply of food and grass. After all, the two armies are facing each other. There are many generals, but it is always only an army of one hundred thousand who decide for life and death."

The [-] that Xiao Ran took away and the [-] that Zhong Kunyi took away back then.

"It's just that the strength of the two sides is now weak, but I don't know how much the current confrontation is." Yuyuan said.

"It's not difficult, just ask General Qu. When two armies fight, there will be casualties counted." Zhi Ming turned around and saw Murong Li still thinking, "Ah Li, what do you think is wrong?"

"Even if you know this, it's not the key to victory." Murongli got up, took the formation diagram on the table, and looked at it carefully, "Why has this formation diagram...why has it never been used again?"

"Didn't Ah Li say that there is no one to understand?" Zhi Ming said.

"But, haven't I, Xiao Ran, and Zhong Kunyi already figured it out?" Murongli asked back.

Zhi Ming was speechless, indeed, in Juntian's hundreds of years of history, there has never been a single outstanding talent, and it was only in their generation that they all exploded together?He waved away the rambling thoughts in his mind, and rarely looked at the formation map seriously, time was running out, he only hoped to help Murongli.

The 64 hexagrams in the Book of Changes are "the source of the great way" and the learning of emperors. Although Zhiming is stubborn, he is smart. Although he was forced to learn, he knows a lot after all.

"'Working is the sky', the words are 'Yuan, Heng, Li, Zhen', meaning strong and upright, showing auspiciousness, and teaching gentlemen to follow the way of heaven and cultivate virtue." Zhi Ming watched Xiao Ran write down the formation map, and muttered to himself, "If you work from top to bottom, you will follow the weather..."

It was rare for Murong Li to see him look serious, so he couldn't help but soften his eyes, and said with a smile, "You still know this?"

Zhi Ming said with nostalgia, "When I was young, I was forced to recite a lot by the Taifu." He lowered his head and continued to look, but there was always a feeling of ambiguity in his heart, just like his feelings for Murongli back then, even though he liked it so much. Tight, but he didn't understand it, that kind of joy was suppressed in his heart, which made him both bored and happy, but also deeply doubted.

"Earth and sky, heaven and earth are reversed, yin and yang interact, prosperity and decline then decline and prosperity... Ah Li..." Zhi Ming suddenly said, "The 64 hexagrams are originally yin and yang, and each hexagram is yin and yang, and yin and yang are born together. On the other hand, will these formations inherently generate and restrain each other?"

Murong Li's eyes froze, and there was a throbbing in his heart, "It's true!"

"Then if no matter what kind of formation Zhong Kunyi uses, we all happen to use the formation that counteracts each other, wouldn't the outcome be..."

"I've thought about this too, but it's obviously impossible, otherwise why didn't it happen earlier." Yuyuan pouted and sighed, "The drumbeats of ordinary battle formations are already quite complicated, let alone memorizing the drumbeats of such battle formations at the same time. Among thousands of troops, it is better to sit on the sidelines and watch, the so-called authorities are obsessed, how can they look at the overall situation in the middle of a random fight, and know which battle formation can suppress the enemy army?"

"What if there are two people?" Zhi Ming asked.

"Two people?" Yuyuan felt more and more unfeasible, "Since ancient times, the military order should be the same, and it is common sense that one army should not have two generals."

Murong Li frowned and looked at Zhi Ming, clenched his fists slightly, he probably understood what the person in front of him was thinking, but how could he put him in danger?

"Your Majesty, how can you go to battle in person? Could it be that I can't wait for the show?" Deputy General Chen asked anxiously.

"Vice General Chen is right. Your Majesty's move is tantamount to putting your life in the hands of others. How can you do it?" Song Yun also disagreed.

"A Li is no one else!" Zhi Ming said displeased.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. General Song is only worried about His Majesty's safety, and has no other intentions." Luo Heng was more serious and spoke softly. He bowed his hands to Murong Li, "Then what does the Lord mean?"

Luo Heng looked directly at Murongli, he knew very well that with Murongli's feelings for Zhiming, he would not let Zhiming take risks.

"I don't think it's feasible."

Sure enough... Luo Heng smiled, he was relieved by Murongli's straightforward and decisive response.

Zhi Ming gave Luo Heng a hard look, then turned to Murongli and said urgently, "Since the 64 hexagrams are integrated into the art of war, then we can adapt to changes in the battle situation, so that we can remain unchanged and adapt to all changes, and the intangible is better than the visible. To accomplish all of this, It is necessary to have two generals at the same time, one from a high place to see the overall situation and give orders, and the other to lead thousands of troops to give orders. Dare I ask where this plan is not feasible?"

The words came out sharply, but they were not meant for Murong Li, Zhi Ming looked around at the crowd, "A widow can't go down to the battlefield? Only the Lord Murong can go down? Or who among you can be one of the second commanders?"

"Your Majesty understands His Majesty's intentions, but Your Majesty should also cherish the power of heaven. It is not appropriate for His Majesty to conquest himself. Do you still want to put yourself under the edge?" Luo Heng also said sharply. He is loyal to the King, but he is also loyal to the emperor. Tianquan, loyal to the people, he can understand Zhiming's two-hearted agreement, but it doesn't mean he can tolerate Zhiming's playing with his life.

"Okay..." Under the stalemate, Zhiming suddenly smiled, and walked to the desk, "Ah Qiong, Yanmo."

"Your Majesty, what is this for?" Luo Heng frowned.

Murong Li frowned, he was extremely unwilling to see Zhi Ming because he had a dispute with his courtiers, Mo Lan couldn't see it, walked up to him, and said softly, "You should trust him."

Murongli tilted his head in astonishment, and saw Mo Lan slightly nodding at him with a calm expression.

"Why are you standing there? Researching ink!" Zhi Ming called out again with a cold face.

Aqiong didn't dare to delay for a moment, she sharpened the ink quickly, and wrote as soon as she picked up the pen, flowing freely, without the slightest hesitation.

After the book was completed, Zhiming took the emperor's seal and stamped it on it, and then handed the edict to Arjun, "Read."

Arjun took the imperial edict carefully, and just raised his breath, before saying a word, he knelt down with a plop.

Zhi Ming frowned and said, "If you want to read it, you can read it."

"Your Majesty, please spare the little one." Arjun wanted to cry, "Your Majesty, think twice!"

Luo Heng became more and more uneasy, not understanding what kind of edict Zhiming issued to scare Arjun like that.

"Since Aqiong is afraid, let the minister read it." Mo Lanchao Zhiming cupped his hands, took the edict, straightened his appearance, and said solemnly, "Haotian has an order, and the emperor accepts it. [1] Widow Follow the destiny to guard the central wall, inherit the teachings of the ancestors to control the power of heaven. However, today there is a small disaster, and the blood is flowing like a river. If you are a king, if you can't stop the war, how can you inherit the world? Today, the widow wants to lead the army, but the enemy , Consolidate the mountains and rivers. If you win, you will celebrate with all the people, and if you lose, you will thank the world with your body. If the fate has no relatives, then order Lu Xiang and Taishi to choose the son of the clan to stand on."

After the last word was pronounced, even Murong Li was overwhelmed by the shock, Zhi Ming said it was a will? !

At his prime and prime of life, he did the most taboo thing for a king since ancient times.

"Hou Ye! Why are you so absurd, to accompany Your Majesty?" Several generals were in a hurry. Establishing an heir is to stabilize the country, let alone Zhiming has no heirs. In this situation, setting up an heir is no different from telling everyone. If you go to war, you can find another monarch after I die.

"Zhi Ming," Murong Li felt that he couldn't let him go on, but facing him like this, he couldn't find any words.

The man looked at him with rock-solid eyes, and his most trusted friend also told him to trust him.

"The widow has already placed life and death in your hands. If it were you, I would have no fear!" Zhi Ming walked slowly to Murong Li's side, took his hand, and pressed it to his heart, "A Li, I will not let you down. You trust me."

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Notes:

[1] Haotian has a destiny, and the emperor accepts it.The reference here is the beginning of the imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty, which was relatively vague during the Warring States Period, so it was not adopted, "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said:..." This was first used in the Ming Dynasty, and it was considered useless if it was too close.

[2] Xie: It was mentioned in Chinese in the first year of high school, and fairies above high school should know that it means "apologize". (Anyway, this was the test center in my class. I don’t know if the teaching reform is true. In other words, has the proportion of classical Chinese in your test increased or decreased?)