The Yuezhi army went on an expedition to Yarkand, crossed the Congling Mountains, and crossed the desert. The supply line was extremely long. If Yarkand City could not be captured and was blocked by the Sichuan army, with the desert behind it and supplies exhausted, the Yuezhi army would be destroyed.
This strategy is very good, but Zhao Yun frowned and said to Huang Yueying: "Military advisor, if we cooperate with Latia, let's cooperate. But Latia is ambitious and is the Queen of Yarkand. She has special powers, so let's let her go like this."
Now, what if Latia suddenly betrays her?"
"Yeah, yeah." Wutu Gu, so awesome, agreed.
"I think she is sincerely working with us."
As if to specifically slap Huang Yueying in the face, just as Huang Yueying finished speaking, a soldier came in: "Military advisor, it's not good, we have lost contact with Latiya."
"What?" Huang Yueying frowned. She asked Latia to go back and contact the Shache people to resist the Yuezhi army. They had to keep in touch, so why did they suddenly lose contact? Could it be that Latia was really lying to her?
Huang Yueying is still very confident in her ability to detect people. From the first moment she saw Latiya and the way she looked at Liu Zhang, she had already roughly analyzed this woman's psychology.
Did you really make a mistake?
Wu Tu Gu and Hao Shengwei and others scolded Latiya for not keeping her faith. She should have been killed if she had known.
Huang Yueying had no mood swings and said in a deep voice: "Regardless of whether Latiya rebels or not, we will proceed as planned. If Latiya holds Yarkand and does not cooperate with our army, we will attack by force."
"Yes." Wu Tu Gu, so powerful, waited for the general to answer the order in a deep voice.
Five days later, Zhao Yun returned to Loulan, and Huang Yueying led troops to conquer Yarkand westward. Because Shanshan had already been crippled by Yarkand, and small countries such as Jingjue had little power to resist, Pang Tong quickly organized a dedicated army. He established Jingjue.
The Juedu Protectorate has now led troops to Wusun.
The Jingjue Protectorate of Jingjue City is improving its functional departments, and everything seems to be in order.
In the north of Jingjue City, a tomb that was not grand at all looked desolate. A thousand soldiers with white poles were guarding a hundred meters away. Three women were wearing white clothes and tied with mourning cloth, rolling in front of the tomb. They did not cry or cry.
After saying that, I just looked at the grave quietly, as if I was numb, but also seemed to be able to see through the soil, see the coffin, and see a kind, living figure.
Behind the tomb is a thorn forest that is inaccessible to humans. It is so dense that even rabbits cannot get in. The task of the white-poled soldiers is to protect the three women, so naturally they will not guard this place.
And just under the thick cover of thorns, you can see a big hole from the outside, and the soil at the entrance of the hole is fresh, and there are animal paw prints everywhere, and deep in the hole, a large group of rats are struggling to dig holes, and a woman is standing there
Playing the flute behind the pack of rats.
When she started drilling the hole, Latiya suppressed the sound of the flute and complained in her heart about why Xiao Furong and the other three hadn't left for five days. As a result, the drilling was very slow in the first two days.
It wasn't until Latiya reached a distance of ten meters that she entered the hole. A large number of rats were mobilized to dig the hole, and the speed accelerated a lot.
The smell in the hole was very unpleasant. The rats stunk really bad, and the hole wall was covered with rat hair. But Latiya didn't pay attention, silently calculating the distance in her mind. It should be here. Latia began to direct the rats to dig holes upwards.
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"Clang."
Suddenly, the soil above suddenly loosened and collapsed. The vibration even shocked Xiao Furong and the three people outside. However, looking at the motionless grave in front of them, they all thought it was their own hallucination, and at the same time they felt even sadder.
The soil in the center of the tomb collapsed, killing many rats. Latiya stopped playing the flute, and the other rats got out in fear. A large gap was exposed in the collapsed soil.
Latiya, who was covered in mud, rolled up from the gap, with a happy face. It was indeed the main room of the tomb, with a coffin standing alone in the middle, and there was nothing around it.
"You are so pitiful. The majestic King of Shu doesn't even have a single burial object. If I were a tomb robber, I would be so angry."
Latiya walked to the coffin, picked up a pair of pliers, pulled out the nails that nailed the coffin one by one, and pushed the lid open with all her strength. After doing this, Latia was so tired that she couldn't breathe.
"Fortunately, the medicine is still effective. You haven't become rotten. God didn't play tricks on me this time."
Latiya looked at Liu Zhang's pale but still intact face, smiled, wiped the sweat from his forehead, took out a pill from the cloth bag in his arms, fed it to Liu Zhang's mouth, took out a water bag and drank it, and then
Staring at Liu Zhang motionless.
Half an hour later, Latia's face became a little nervous. She got up, put her head into the coffin, and listened to Liu Zhang's heart. Then she showed joy again. Latia felt a weak heartbeat. Even though she had expected it, she was still excited.
Clenched his fists.
In the boundless black mist, Liu Zhang only felt that he had had a long dream, a dream that made him extremely depressed but could not escape, and he could not even move his body.
I could only vaguely listen to everything around me, the loud crying, the shouts of the Dongzhou soldiers, and the warm feeling of Huang Yueying's tears falling on her face.
Then there was a commotion, and his body was moving. Then, everything became quiet, and he fell into darkness.
I don't know how long it took, but there was a loud noise that made my body tremble in the darkness. I seemed to find some feeling again, and then I heard the sound of the coffin being pried open, and then I felt something from my throat entering my stomach along with the water flow.
At this moment, in the darkness, I seemed to see the black fog around me getting lighter. I tried hard to get out, but I was still tightly bound. I tried my best, but I still couldn't see anything.
But Liu Zhang didn't give up, because he didn't want to die. Now he felt the black mist loosening around him, and tried his best to break free. That kind of strength came from the desire to survive.
If you must die, don't frown; if you can live, never give up.
Finally, the black fog faded a little, and his body seemed to move a little. Finally, his eyes began to open instinctively. After having been closed for a long time, it was extremely difficult to open them suddenly. Liu Zhang's eyesight became narrow and hazy.
And in the haze, Liu Zhang saw a face looking at him with joy. As the white mist in front of him gradually faded, Liu Zhang saw clearly and recognized the person in front of him, the Queen of Yarkand.
Latia was very happy that Liu Zhang woke up, but she was not too surprised. Liu Zhang had just woken up and his brain hadn't started functioning yet, so Latia quickly took out a box with a temperature on it.
Opening the box, there was a box of egg porridge inside. Latiya fed it to Liu Zhang with a spoon, and Liu Zhang ate it instinctively.
After eating a little bit of warm egg porridge, Liu Zhang felt that his body was slowly regaining consciousness, and his consciousness began to become clearer, and he saw the environment he was in. He was indeed lying in a coffin.
When Latiya fed him another spoonful of egg porridge, Liu Zhang ate it and spoke.
"What's going on? Why didn't I die? Why are you here?" The voice was hoarse, and Liu Zhang tried hard to adjust his voice.
"Look at you, you have died once. The first words you said when you woke up were still so cold, but hey, you looked so cute when I fed you just now."
Latia laughed. Seeing that Liu Zhang wanted to continue asking, Latia said: "Drink up this bowl of porridge first, otherwise you won't have the strength to survive until you die the second time."
"Second death?" Liu Zhang frowned, but in order to figure out the situation as soon as possible. Without waiting for Latiya to feed him, he stretched out his hand that had just resumed activities and was still stiff in many places, took the egg porridge, and drank it quickly with a spoon.
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After a bowl of hot egg porridge, Liu Zhang felt much better, but his feet were still numb and he could not stand up smoothly.
"Can we talk now?" Liu Zhang asked Latiya, while looking at his tomb. There was also this coffin, and he couldn't help feeling depressed. It was really shabby.
"Do you remember that day when I kissed you?" Latiya asked.
Liu Zhang nodded.
"Do you think I drool a lot?"
Liu Zhang: "..." I really felt that way at the time, but Latiya was pretty and cute, and not disgusting.
"That's not saliva, that's a pill hidden in my tooth after I bit it. The liquid medicine in the pill is a drug that can make people fake death."
"suspended animation?"
"Yeah, for me, it's fake death. This is my last trump card. I hid the poison just so that one day I would be caught by someone else, so I could hide it from the enemy by committing suicide, and then escape with my life," Latiya said.
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Liu Zhang listened to Latiya's words and nodded slowly, but suddenly realized something was wrong: "Since you have this kind of medicine, why did you mix the poison without an antidote and drink it? Aren't you looking for death at the expense of the good?"
Liu Zhang felt that Latia's scheming was really endless. If she had faked her death in prison and the Sichuan army couldn't see it, it would be impossible for him to destroy her body, then she would really be able to escape.
"Isn't this the time to talk about this?" Latiya rolled her eyes at Liu Zhang and continued: "For me, this drug only has the effect of suspended animation, but it also has the effect of stopping all life activities.
That is to say, even if you are seriously ill and are about to die, you can still survive for at least seven days after taking the medicine. As long as you survive within seven days, you can live out your life."
"Live the time you deserve to live, the time you deserve to live?" Liu Zhang muttered these words, suddenly woke up, and said to Latiya: "You mean, I still only have a few hours to live now?"
Liu Zhang also remembered the strange situation at the beginning. The military doctor clearly said that he could live until dawn, but that night he felt that his life was exhausted.
The memory of the last moment before his death returned to Liu Zhang's mind. At that time, he was really unwilling to accept that the person he liked was right in front of him, but he passed away just when he was about to kiss her, only a few centimeters away.
The heart hurts at the last moment of beating.
"Of course, my medicine can't save your life. If it could save your life, would I go to such trouble? This medicine is risky, and who knows how your subordinates will bury you? Or support the mummy, or
Mercury was poured into the corpse, or it was submerged in water.
Do you know how nervous I am these days? But you can’t blame me. Even if there is an accident, you will only lose a few hours of your life and it won’t be my fault, hehe.”
Latiya said happily, not noticing Liu Zhang's expression at all. As she spoke, she stood up, stretched out her two jade arms, and spun around in a brisk circle.
"Hehe, how great it is now. There are just the two of us here. You can no longer ignore me. You can't act like a prince in heaven. You can't drive me away for other women. Your last few
hour, we are equal."
Latiya chuckled as she spoke, but suddenly saw Liu Zhang's angry face, stopped, pursed her lips and said: "Why are you staring at me? Even if I don't use medicine, can you still live forever? Can you now?"
Live as long as you deserve, I don't owe you anything."
"Fuck you." Liu Zhang finally couldn't help but uttered a foul language that he had never used before, and the anger in his heart could not be suppressed: "Latiya, you perverted woman, what do you think you should do with a few hours alone?"
The time is the same? Is it the same no matter who you are with?
Originally, I could be with Yueying, Rong'er, and Yan'er, and I would be satisfied with it for more than ten hours. But now I am in this basement, with you, an old witch, so what if I can live for a few more years?
Might as well spend a minute with them."
Liu Zhang was really angry now. At the moment before he died, his unwillingness was all caused by this perverted woman in front of him. Before he died, he thought that Latiya was perverted. He didn't expect to be so perverted.
In order to be able to stay alone in a space with him, he went through so much trouble that he could not kiss Huang Yueying until he died. At this moment, Latiya was a hundred times worse than the worst witch in Liu Zhang's heart.
"Why are you so fierce?"
Suddenly a cry came out, and Latiya's face started to look happy, then became more and more gloomy as Liu Zhang spoke, and finally she couldn't help but cry in grievance.
Latiya cried and said: "Do you think it is easy for me to do so much? But you are at this point, and you still use other women to ridicule me.
Liu Zhang, let me tell you, I don’t want to rise up any Yarkand empire, nor do I want to be a queen, nor do I want Yarkand to be equal to the Han Dynasty, and I am even more tired of leading troops to fight.
I did so much, deceived the Qin Empire, deceived the Yuezhi Empire, deceived you the Han Empire, and set up an army to fight, just because I wanted you to treat me as an equal, and not to look down on me because I am a member of a small country, no longer
Put on your stinky face like a big man and a high official.
I have never thought about how to override you, how I want you to beg me, or how to return the humiliation you have given me.
I just long in my heart to talk to you well, you know? But if I was just a princess in Yarkand, would you talk to me well? When I was in Hanzhong and Xiqiang, did you say a word to me well?
I'm always thinking about how to take advantage of my status as a princess.
When you kissed me on the tower of Yangping Pass, it was my first kiss. A girl's first kiss. Do you know how much impact it would have on that girl? You know how much I longed for you to come over and say a few words to me.