#483 - Self-awareness of insignificance
Half an hour later.
After bidding farewell to the old woman, Wei Changtian went to the riverside pavilion to find a personal guard of Han Zhao.
The latter gave him a set of clothes, a waist牌, and a warhorse.
Disguised as an ordinary scout, Wei Changtian openly rode out of the city and galloped south.
Although scouts belonged to the scout battalion, in order to scout intelligence on a larger scale, they usually operated in groups of only a few people, or even alone.
Therefore, he did not arouse any suspicion along the way, and soon completely left the garrison area of the imperial army and headed straight for Niutou Mountain.
As the closest route from Guanghan County to Shuzhou City, Niutou Mountain is not too far from Guanghan County. If you ride a horse without rest, it will take almost a whole night to arrive.
And if it is marching, it will take almost two days.
That is to say, the imperial army should arrive at Niutou Mountain Pass the day after tomorrow afternoon.
At that time, what awaits them is a trap.
“Whoosh!”
The gust of wind whistled past his ears, and the green grass trembled and fell wherever the steed passed.
Wei Changtian usually travels by car, and rarely rides a horse, so he didn't dare to ride too fast at the beginning.
However, after adapting for a short period of time, he gradually let go of his worries. Not only did the warhorse under his crotch run faster and faster, but he also slowly began to enjoy the process of “riding a fast horse”.
Slightly squinting his eyes, feeling the strong wind passing across his face, his body rhythmically rose and fell with the rise and fall of the horse's hooves.
Wei Changtian suddenly understood why so many people in his previous life liked racing.
Speed can indeed bring people a kind of inexplicable excitement.
It's just that this kind of “passion” is based on a “sense of danger”, and the speed of the warhorse is obviously not enough for Wei Changtian to feel “danger”, so after a long time, he lost interest.
It was even a little boring.
By the way, I don’t know where Xu Suisui was teleported to.
So... was she delayed by something?
Or is the teleportation location bad? Did she unfortunately die?
After all, the Qing Jue Jade Pendant is teleported randomly, and it's hard to say if it accidentally falls into a river or lake.
However, Xu Suisui's luck shouldn't be that bad.
Wei Changtian muttered in his heart and didn't continue to think about it.
Or rather, since learning what Xu Suisui's system was, he had been deliberately controlling himself not to think about it.
Because the more he thought about it, the more “meaningless” some things became.
When the boundary between “true” and “false” in the world becomes blurred, and then is revealed layer by layer in the form of matryoshka dolls... perhaps the truth of the universe is far beyond what Wei Changtian can understand and accept.
Therefore, in order to prevent his world view and values from collapsing, Wei Changtian decided that it was better not to think about such profound questions for the time being.
“Da da da, da da da”
The sound of horse hooves, messed up by the wind, was fragmented in his ears.
At this time, the sun had already set in the west, and it was almost dusk.
Wei Changtian looked into the distance, and what he saw was the rare open wilderness scenery in the south.
The mountains disappear with the plains, and the river flows into the vast wilderness.
There was not a single bird in the sky, and the wilderness at the foot of the mountain stretched endlessly to the left and right.
A river that was not too wide flowed slowly at the end of the line of sight, and there was a looming wooden bridge by the river.
This was the scenery that Wei Changtian saw, leaving only a bleak scene in late autumn.
At this moment, Wei Changtian's figure in it seemed a little small and lonely, and even if the line of sight was pulled further away, I'm afraid only a small black dot slowly moving forward could be seen.
Someone in the previous life once said — the more people experience, the less they say; the more books they read, the more they understand their own ignorance.
And if combined with Wei Changtian's current experience, this sentence can perhaps be added with another sentence.
The further you walk, the more you know your insignificance.
Night, Danning Capital.
戌时, almost a day had passed since Wei Xianzhi led people to surround the palace.
Naturally, such a thing could not be completely blocked, not to mention that Wei Xianzhi didn't intend to do so at all.
Therefore, such a major event that could be described as “shocking the world” had already spread to the ears of the people, and it instantly detonated public opinion in the streets.
That is to say, there was no hot search list this year, otherwise the topic of “the Wei family intends to rebel” would definitely occupy the top spot for a long time.
Until another blockbuster news that was enough to overshadow this matter suddenly came...
“Brother Feng! Have you heard? Dafeng has surrendered!”
“You just found out, the Jing Daily added a special edition this noon, saying that the imperial army has already entered Fengyuan City!”
“Already entered the city? Then what about the Dafeng Emperor? Did he escape?”
“Escape? That person is now stupid. I heard that General Wu has already placed him under house arrest.”
“Stupid? Tsk tsk tsk, with such a state of mind, he is still an emperor. No wonder Dafeng was defeated so quickly!”
“Who said no? I have to say that our Holy Majesty”
“Cough! Brother Feng, be careful what you say! Be careful that the walls have ears!”
“Brother Liu, you and I are on the street now, there are no walls”
“.”
At the critical moment when Wei Xianzhi had made it clear that he was going to fight against Ning Yongnian, Dafeng's surrender was undoubtedly a timely rain, which helped the latter consolidate the people's hearts that were already crumbling due to the grain price problem.
A great defeat of the enemy country, helping more than two million compatriots in Yuanzhou City “avenge”. Although most of the Danning people are eating one meal without the next, such a “spiritual food” is enough to cheer everyone up.
After all, no matter what, this is a great thing, and it is definitely a great achievement for Ning Yongnian.
It's just that, just like those two people just now, most people don't dare to praise Ning Yongnian's goodness “openly”.
Even Ning Yongnian himself did not have any excitement at this time, his expressionless appearance was as if someone owed him a lot of money.
“Old Li, how is the situation in Shuzhou?”
In the Shiqu Pavilion, Ning Yongnian had asked about the situation in Shuzhou for the fifth time today.
And Li Huaizhong quickly replied:
“Your Majesty, General Han has led the army out of Guanghan City and is heading straight for Shuzhou City.”
“Hmm.”
Nodding, Ning Yongnian looked at the map in front of him, his brows furrowed again.
Since the start of the Battle of Shuzhou, he had been pondering one thing.
That is why the Shu army dared to engage in a head-on battle.
You must know that the imperial army has as many as 300,000, while the Shu army only has 60,000.
Under such a huge contrast in strength, Wei Changtian still dared to fight, which means that he must think he has a chance to win.
But where is this opportunity?
The only thing Ning Yongnian can think of at the moment is Da Li.
But intelligence shows that Da Li has only sent 100,000 people to Shuzhou at most, and the strength is still far from enough.
And why did Wei Changtian want to defend Guanghan City? Instead of directly defending Shuzhou City?
Although there has never been a saying that “if the military strength is not as good as the enemy, then don’t fight” since ancient times, and there has never been a shortage of classic battles of “defeating more with less” in history.
However, Ning Yongnian still felt that there was something strange about this.
“Old Li, why do you think Wei Changtian wants to defend Guanghan?”
Turning back, Ning Yongnian suddenly asked Li Huaizhong: “You know this son's temperament better than I do. Is he the kind of person who would do something he is not sure of?”
“This.”
Li Huaizhong lowered his head and thought for a while, and replied cautiously: “Your Majesty, although this thief is quite scheming, he often takes risks in his actions.”
“In this old servant's opinion, the reason why he defended Guanghan City should be to delay the pace of our army, so as to wait for the Da Li army to arrive in Shuzhou.”
“Hmm”
Slightly nodding, Ning Yongnian seemed to accept this only reasonable explanation.
However, just as he picked up the Zhu pen and was about to continue reviewing the memorials, he suddenly raised his head and asked:
“By the way.”
“Which road did Han Zhao take to advance to Shuzhou City?”
