The general and several guards around him were stunned for a moment, but they still obeyed the order and helped Lu Teng to lean on a rockery stone on the side. Lu Teng exhaled softly, in order to walk faster, the armor and helmet on his body had been removed, and the sleeves were smeared with black ashes, his face was even more white and gray, and even half of his beard was burned off, looking embarrassed.

If it was changed half a month or even a few days ago, no one would believe that this was the governor of Jiangling in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the presiding officer of the entire Jiangling and even the entire Jingxiang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

And now Lu Teng, who is leaning on the rockery and gasping for breath, looks like a complete loser no matter how he looks at it.

Of course, the surrounding soldiers looked at Lu Teng with respectful expressions, and they knew that it was this rather embarrassed old general who came to this Jiangling with a mortal heart, took them to hold on for so long under the enemy's frenzied attack, and even tried to encourage the Xiliang people, who did not have much fighting spirit at all, to participate in this battle.

The old general has been able to go so far, and he has beaten many people in this world, and if he is someone else, he may not be able to do better than the old general.

"General, we can't wait any longer," the general looked at Lu Teng with a tired look on his face, and couldn't bear to turn his head, "The top priority is to hurry up and advance to a few mansions on the west side, the fire over there has not yet burned, and the enemy is mainly blocked by us on the southeast side, as long as we can hold on longer"

"It's a dead end now." Lu Teng lightly interrupted the general's words, "Actually, you, me, and everyone present know it. ”

The general opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Lu Teng's gaze swept over everyone's faces: "Now that the inner city has been broken and the palace city has been taken by the enemy, I'm afraid that the queen has already gone to join her husband with the jade seal of the heirloom." We are now completely alone and abandoned, presumably General Wei Chi of Xiangyang is also more than capable at this time, and we will not have any more reinforcements. ”

The feeling of loss was permeated on everyone's faces, although they didn't want to admit it, but they had to admit that Lu Teng was telling the truth, the cruel truth.

Lu Teng stood up slowly, looked at the silent garden, as well as the billowing flames and black smoke rising from the eaves, and said lightly:

"The old man has been fighting on the battlefield all his life, and in the end, he has finally failed to meet His Majesty's trust and expectations, and the old man can only apologize with death. The old man will not escape the blame for the loss of Gangneung City, but you are still young."

Before the words fell, Lu Teng slowly pulled out his saber, although his armor and helmet had been lost, but his saber never left his hand, which made Lu Teng at least have the choice to control his own destiny in the end.

"Old General!" The general's tears were dazzling, and the rest of the soldiers also gently turned their heads away, not wanting to see the upcoming scene.

Because they have no way to stop it.

Lu Teng laughed loudly: "The eldest husband is alive, isn't it a joke to flow horse urine, if there is fate, let's fight side by side in the next life!" ”

As he spoke, Lu Teng slashed his sword across his neck.

In an instant, blood gushed out.

A Northern Zhou soldier lowered his head at the same time, and the footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, dense like raindrops.

"Wei Chi Yu's reinforcements have been repulsed, put down your blades, you have no reinforcements!" A member of the Nan Chen army ran briskly down the corridor with a crossbowman, but when they saw the slowly falling body, they couldn't help but slow down.

"Old general, I don't know if you are lucky that you didn't hear the news?" The general slowly threw away the blade in his hand, but his eyes were not far from the figure, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

On June 15, the Southern Chen army broke through Jiangling City, and the Empress Zhang of the Western Liang Dynasty presented the jade seal of the country, and the whole country surrendered to Chen, and the Emperor Xiao Yue of the Western Liang Dynasty was captured by the Chen army first. On the same day, Lu Teng, the governor of Jiangling in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was martyred in the city, and the martyrs were more than 10 people in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and more than 20 people in the Western Liang Dynasty.

The Battle of the Western Expedition of Southern Chen, which began in May, brought to an end the fall of the Western Liang. At the same time, Chi Hui, the commander of Xiangyang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, led the army to rush to the aid but retreated to Wuning County and confronted the Southern Chen army.

The rising water vapor made the whole world seem to become a little distorted, and Li Xinchen's gaze immediately shifted downward to the teacup containing the tea, thoughtful.

He slept for most of the day, and only then did he recover his energy from the exhaustion of the bloody battle, and after bathing, he walked directly to the lobby with his hair on his head.

Just two days ago, in the same position, Li Xinchen used to drink the same tea in the same teacup, watching the pouring rain outside. Now the tea has not changed, the location has not changed, the heavy rain has disappeared, and the soldiers on duty under the verandah outside the house have changed to fresh faces.

Because most of the people Li Xinchen was familiar with before had stayed on the distant city wall forever.

With a sigh in his heart, Li Xinchen picked up the teacup and drank the tea.

struggled so hard, but finally did not be completely engulfed by this troubled world.

"Shizhong, how are you resting?" The sound of footsteps came, Xiao Shilian walked in with a smile, and Li Xinchen, who was watching, broke out in a cold sweat behind his back, "Are your injuries okay?" ”

What's wrong with this guy's eyes? Could it be that after more than a day, it was bent?

Of course, Xiao Shilian didn't know what Li Xinchen was thinking, if he knew, he would definitely snort a few times, he Xiao Shilian was an upright man, and he was not interested in men at all.

"I'm okay, all the soldiers who died in battle are buried?" Li Xinchen's voice was a little low, he didn't want to look at the blood-red number and the blood-red list anymore, even if he knew that the enemy had paid several times the price, he also knew that he would have more opportunities to see these in the future.

As for the injuries on his body, in the previous tragic offensive and defensive battles, Li Xinchen also had a few wounds on his body, but fortunately, they were all flesh wounds, and there was no major problem. After all, at that time, Li Ping, Chen Zhishen and others around him protected him to death with personal guards, and it was probably not so easy to break his muscles and bones.

Perhaps since this battle, Li Xinchen has already adapted to the injury, so if it wasn't for Xiao Shilian to mention it, he would have forgotten about this stubble.

"You don't have to worry about this." Xiao Shilian nodded, "Brother Dashi personally took people to bury the brothers, and you know that guy's meticulous nature in doing things will definitely not treat these good brothers badly." Now that everyone is in the ground, we have to find a time to pay tribute to all the living people. ”

Li Xinchen stood up Huo Ran: "This is nature. ”

Xiao Shilian remembered something, and took out the battle report in his sleeve and handed it to Li Xinchen: "You can take a look at this first, Jiangling City has been taken, and Lu Teng committed suicide." ”

"Suicide?" Li Xinchen raised his eyebrows and sighed softly, this old general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was harder than he imagined.