bookrebus Chapter 329 The Calm Before the Battle
Chapter 329 The Calm Before the Battle
"I'm wondering if that guy will come over?"
Ji Wuge stepped forward calmly, glanced at Xing Fuhua, and asked in a low voice.
"Brother Ji!"
Xing Fuhua glanced at Ji Wuge, then lowered her eyes with a bitter expression.
Ji Wuge sighed, looking down at the few exceptionally beautiful chrysanthemums blooming in the corner of the wall. After thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "My lord and I estimate that the Liao army will attack the city tomorrow, and we have already ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle. Your Highness, you are of noble birth. These matters of war are for us men. You, a weak woman, should not get involved. Otherwise, if something happens to you, I really don't know how to explain it to Ajin. Your Highness, I hope you will leave Hangu Pass tonight and return directly to the capital. My guards will escort you all the way back to the capital..."
"I don't want to go back! Brother Ji! Everyone knows the situation at Hangu Pass. If I leave, what will the soldiers who know the situation think? What will happen to Father? What will happen to you? If Brother Jin doesn't come, I won't leave either. At worst, I'll just die. Anyway, if he doesn't care, I don't care either. Dying here is a worthy death!"
Xing Fuhua's voice carried a desperate stubbornness, and her stunningly beautiful face was filled with determination!
How could she possibly say it? She could never abandon her poor father and brothers at Hangu Pass to escape on her own. Her father and the brothers at Hangu Pass had long been abandoned by the court, which was probably already prepared to cede territory and sue for peace. It was absolutely impossible for the court to send troops to support them. Moreover, Ji Jiucheng had already led his troops to the northwest border. The only hope they could place on now was Sikong Jin!
But even if Sikong Jin came, what could she do?
With only 50,000 troops at his disposal, could he possibly withstand Gosu's hundreds of thousands of troops?
Xing Fuhua felt a wave of despair. She secretly hoped he would come, but then she thought about it and decided she didn't want him to come.
"Your Highness, please don't say such discouraging things. The great battle hasn't even started yet, and no one knows how it will end. Just being able to survive is a good thing!" Ji Wuge said with a frown.
"Anyway, I'm not leaving. I said I'd live and die with Hangu Pass, and I wasn't just saying it. If you're all not afraid of death, what do I have to fear? At worst, we'll all be buried here together. I'm no less capable than anyone else in the battle. I'll kill as many enemies as I can. Brother Ji, you don't need to persuade me anymore. My mind is made up. If Sikong Jin can come, we'll live and die together. If he can't, then... then..."
Xing Fuhua stopped there, glanced at Ji Wuge, and then abruptly turned and left.
Ji Wuge couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. Xing Fuhua looked quite delicate, but when she got stubborn, no one could persuade her!
Ah Jin, Ah Jin, it seems you're in for a rough time!
"That's just her personality, like her mother. Wu Ge, let her be."
Suddenly, a deep voice came from behind him. When Ji Wuge turned around, he saw that the elegant and noble Xing Qitian had appeared behind him at some point.
"grown ups!"
Ji Wuge called out respectfully.
Xingqi Tian nodded, walked slowly to the stone table next to him and sat down. He looked up at the vast blue sky outside and sighed heavily, "If war breaks out tomorrow and things don't look good, you should take Hua'er and run away. Your father told me to take good care of you. I have no choice but to accept this situation."
"My lord, I will follow you to the death! Moreover, I believe that things will take a turn for the better, and perhaps Ajin will arrive tomorrow! I know Ajin's character well. If he didn't have some guarantee, he would never have sent us a secret message. He would have come directly to ask us to leave. Since he dared to do this, he must have some reasons for it."
Ji Wuge frowned and thought for a moment, a flicker of hope in his heart, a feeling that this time they shouldn't be finished.
At this point, Xing Qitian was also a little puzzled. He turned his gaze to Ji Wuge and said, "Logically speaking, if Ajin were to borrow a route from Da Zhou directly, she should have gone straight to Hangu Pass through Yanmen Pass. Judging by the time, she should have arrived in the next few days. But why is she nowhere to be seen now, and why has there not been a single word of news from her?"
"Could something have happened on the way? As for the court, the emperor should approve and pass Ajin's request. In the current situation, the court is just trying to salvage the situation at Hangu Pass."
Ji Wuge thought for a moment before answering.
Koki Ten's deep eyes suddenly became somewhat unfathomable. He remained silent for a long time before suddenly saying, "I have a feeling that Ajin might be planning something big this time."
As he spoke, he suddenly looked up at Ji Wuge standing beside him, "Do you remember who we encountered at the gates of the capital when we fought our way out of it?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Wuge fell silent. After a moment of recollection, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Xing Qitiandao with some surprise, "The current Northern Emperor of the Great Zhou!"
Xingqi Tian nodded. "That's right, it was the Northern Emperor! I remember he was in a hurry to leave the city and return to the Great Zhou. At that time, because of the Seventh Four-Star Assembly, the city gates of the imperial city were closed and heavily guarded. After we left the council hall, we went straight to the city gate. Logically speaking, when we arrived at the city gate, it should have been closed. But at that time, the city gate was open! It was the Northern Emperor who used his token to open the tightly closed city gate, allowing us to leave the imperial city smoothly."
"Then what does that prove? We suspected it was Ajin back then..."
"If we're not mistaken, it must have been Ajin who asked the Northern Emperor for help. Ajin's relationship with the Northern Emperor is quite unusual. You forgot, before Ajin was ordered to go to the northwest border to quell the uprising, the Northern Emperor sent his important minister Su Yu as an envoy to Dayong and even stayed at the Crescent Moon Pavilion in the Sikong Mansion. That's enough to explain the situation."
As Xing Qitian finished speaking, Ji Wuge suddenly recalled Sikong Jin's bright and beautiful face, beaming with a smile, talking to them about her cousin Di Bei...