Wesley Series The Great Secret Chapter 6 The Secret of the Iron General

The bottle was out of his mouth, the iron egg could speak, and the series of words he said not only sounded strange, but also could not understand, he shouted: "Find them." They refused to let me go, but when they found it, they were still there? Haha, how to hide can not hide? His grandmother's, well, come on, Lao Tzu is not afraid. Can get one person to do things one person to do, his grandmother's...　”

The iron egg mouth said, "Lao Tzu is not afraid", but his body trembled violently, and he did not know whether he was afraid or excited.

"His grandmother's" is also a swear word he has been accustomed to since he was a child.

I listened inexplicably to this remark. He stopped, his breath extremely fast.

I said busily, "You had a festival with Tianguanmen?" ”

When I asked this question, I still didn't understand that Iron Egg had become a famous general in his early twenties, and had always been in the army, and it was difficult to imagine how he could have a relationship with Tianguanmen.

When I asked this, he roared again, probably alcohol in his body, played a role, he was arrogant and steep, gritted his teeth: "Festival, I want them to die, they want me to die, is this considered a festival?" ”

I was even more surprised, I really didn't know what to say, it was so unexpected.

In the face of such an accident, I could not do anything, only to let the iron egg play by itself, and I could not say a word.

Iron Egg gasped and drank again, "Bring the wine." ”

Legend has it that every time the Iron General launched a great attack, he would have such a cry, and his subordinates mentioned him in his memoirs, often with adjectives such as "the general drank with red eyes" and "the wine made his eyes like fire".

At this time, although he was sitting in a wheelchair, but this time he shouted, he was still mighty, and it was faintly visible that he had drunk dry wine, dropped the bowl, waved his hand, and the charge horn beeped, and thousands of troops and horses together covered up the past arrogance of the enemy army, which was fascinating.

I hurriedly gave him the wine, and he took several more sips, reaching out to dry the wine in his mouth, and his hands were shaking badly—after all, the days of his grandeur were over, and now he was just a thin man in a wheelchair.

I reached over and took his hand. He took a deep breath before he uttered a sentence that surprised me.

What he said was, "I've been a prisoner, I've been taken prisoner. ”

As soon as I heard him suddenly utter such a sentence, I tried my best to restrain myself so that my body would not jump up at once. At the same time, I didn't dare to look at him, just stared at the wine in the glass and took a big sip.

I reacted this way because I knew all too well the seriousness of the sentence.

This sentence is not only serious, but also extremely incredible.

Although now, the Iron Egg has achieved isolation from the world, and nothing happens to him, but he was once a soldier, and it is impossible to ignore the honor of a soldier.

And having been a prisoner is a great shame for a soldier, the most disgraceful record in the life of a soldier, and a stain that people will not be able to lift their heads when they see them.

Perhaps, I should have been more detailed — some armies don't think it's too serious about soldiers being captured. When prisoners of war returned, they were warmly welcomed. But the army that iron eggs joined was very different. That army, one hundred percent, is a political instrument, and in the midst of a brutal struggle, once it becomes a prisoner without heroic sacrifice, it is first and foremost an act of not heroic enough, not loyal enough, and is bound to be tainted.

In addition, after being captured, whether or not he had betrayed his comrades-in-arms became the basis for endless doubts, and the decision could no longer be trusted, and the life of the soldier ended henceforth, not only could he no longer be a soldier, but he also had to be in the camp of his own people, unable to lift his head, and live a life of humiliation, which was ten thousand times more terrible than being tortured by the enemy.

I was surprised because the Iron Egg was not made through the nameless man, and his deeds, recited everywhere, were part of recent history, so that in his military career, if he had been a prisoner, it would never have been possible to conceal it from the unknown. I know that he was a prisoner, but many of the generals who were enemies of him became his prisoners.

Therefore, at this time, I can not have any reaction, I can only try to pretend to be plain, that is related to his lifelong honor, for him, then this life and death is more important - let him choose between honor and life, either, I believe he will not consider for a second, must choose glorious death, will not choose humiliating survival.

This is also the most strange thing for me - how can a person with his personality become a prisoner?

It was unimaginable, so I involuntarily shook my head. After the iron egg said this earth-shattering sentence, he did not make a sound for a long time, and looking at his expression, it seemed to be in contemplation.

He didn't say it, and naturally I didn't want to ask, so between the two of them, it was silence.

Or, while everyone is silent and not speaking, I will give some explanations to this story entitled "The Great Secret."

Before I wrote this story, I considered it very seriously and discussed it with Bai Su.

The main reason is that this story involves many recent historical figures – if one by one, the story loses its mystique and becomes a modern history. But if you don't make it clear at all, such a statement as "the army where the iron egg is located" mentioned above is too obscure and difficult to understand.

Moreover, as the story progresses, the secret involved is a really big secret, extremely amazing, and it cannot be too direct, nor too obscure, quite difficult.

After thinking about it again, it still adopts a hidden method - "hiding the real thing", Mr. Cao Xueqin has also used (really great), that way, there is an advantage, vague, let people know what the big secret is, it is better than telling the big secret straight out.

If a friend says they don't understand it, it doesn't matter, because the process of story development is already interesting enough.

Moreover, there should be no situation that you can't understand, unless you are really too young, then just look at the story.

To be sure, learning this big secret was the most thrilling of Wesley's bizarre experiences, and it had nothing to do with any aliens, it was all an Earthlings' business.

To put it more off-topic: The Story of Methodist has always been called "science fantasy", in fact, the word "science" can be removed, and "fantasy" can be retained.

Between science and fantasy, it's hard to blend — two plus two must equal four, and no fantasy can turn into three or five.

Gossiped about it, but said that at that time, the silence between me and the iron egg lasted for ten minutes.

In the past ten minutes, I have drunk a bottle of wine in one sip of him. To dispel the embarrassment of silence, I tilted my head back and aimed the mouth of the bottle at my mouth, letting the remaining wine in the empty bottle, drop by drop, fall into my mouth.

(Generally speaking, there can be fifty or sixty drops of wine in the "empty bottle.") ）

The first to break the silence was the Iron Egg, who laughed dryly and asked, "You haven't heard that I was ever captured, have you?" ”

I shook my head: "Never heard of it —when did it happen?" ”

I asked very carefully—when it was, and that was very important.

Iron Egg joined the army when he was a teenager, of course, he did not become a general as soon as he joined the army, and if he was captured by the enemy at that time, it would not be so serious.

Although, I do not believe that he will become a prisoner when he was a teenager, because his temperament is extremely fierce, preferring not to bend, and has been since childhood.

(Some of the interactions Iron Egg had with me as a child are recorded in the recently compiled Young Wesley story.) ）

Iron Egg shook his head, "No, it's after my officer worships the Great General." ”

I shook my head again, and then, "Haha," I smiled, "You're kidding, what's going on?" ”

I say this in a natural reaction. Because don't say that after he worshiped the general, even after he worshiped the young general, he only heard that he kept winning battles, and he never even lost a battle, how could he become a prisoner?

The iron egg seemed to wipe a little on his face and did not speak immediately.

At this moment, I suddenly remembered something, and I felt a chill all over my body, and I couldn't speak. What I think of is that after the iron egg's army had defeated all the enemies and had no more enemies to fight, something terrible had happened —they began to fight themselves.

It's hard to imagine, but they do start beating themselves. Comrades-in-arms who were originally connected by flesh and blood and fought side by side have become flesh and blood, and you want my head to land on the ground, and I want you to crush the enemy to pieces.

This kind of behavior does not even occur among lower beings, but it occurs among humans.

The invincible great generals, in the process of beating themselves, fell one by one, not dying at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of their own people, and died unjustly, humiliated, and miserable.

Iron Egg naturally could not avoid this terrible vortex of himself nibbling on himself, in that crazy vortex, he was able to survive, did not die of starvation or beating, but had to live in a wheelchair, it was already a good thing, he was a survivor after all.

Since he was not captured when he was a teenager in the army, was he not captured in that crazy whirlpool?

If that's the case, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the honor of the soldiers. Because of that crazy vortex, all right and wrong have been turned upside down, where is there any normal truth to speak of?

When I think about it, I raise my eyebrows. Iron Egg shook his head, "Of course not what you thought. ”

After he said this, he reached for himself, took the empty bottle, threw it upwards, and when the bottle fell, he let go of his hand, "clapped" it, and slapped the bottle to pieces, and the fragments burst out and spilled on him, and on me.

I naturally know that he has excellent martial arts roots, so I don't think it's surprising - the glass of that kind of wine bottle, the texture is strong, with ordinary force to fall to the hard ground, can not make it break, so, the strength of his beat, or amazing, such a force, if a move "double thunder through the ears", slapped on people's ears, this person undoubtedly, not dead and seriously injured.

He smashed the bottle and clapped his hands again before saying, "Only thirteen people know about my being a prisoner, including myself."

My heart moved—even he was in, and only thirteen people knew, that is, only twelve people besides him knew?

"Twelve" is an ordinary number, but at this time, it shakes me.

Twelve days official?

Suddenly, my mind was racing and I remembered many things. The final military task of the Iron General was not a decisive battle between the two armies, but a very special war of annihilation.

At that time, the overall situation on the battlefield had been decided, but there were still many people with weapons, including defeated soldiers who refused to surrender and submit, gang figures in the rivers and lakes, gangsters, private armies of ethnic minorities, displaced people, and so on. Some, knowing their own actions, are absolutely unable to coexist with the powerful forces established by the military power of the Iron General.

Therefore, these people either went their own way, or were sporadically assembled, and they chose the geographical environment of the poor mountains and rivers to fight against powerful and newly formed forces.

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong (each has its own position, there is no right or wrong at all), among this large number of people, many of them may be jiangyang thieves who kill people without blinking an eye, or some of them may be scum among people, but their behavior of knowing that the general trend has gone, and under the circumstances of knowing that they cannot do anything, they still insist on confrontation and refuse to yield, which is always extremely tragic.

It is a large number of tragic figures who are doomed to failure, and who arrange their fate on the inevitable resistance of failure, and do not want to be humiliated and secretly killed.

In the midst of the changes of the great times, the fate of those people can only be regarded as a small episode, and the tragic deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in total are nothing at all, and this period, even if it takes place in modern times, no one has paid attention to it.

I can say that I have nothing to do with this matter, but Boss Bai has a little to do with it.

As the leader of the Seven Gangs and Eight Associations, Boss Bai had close ties with the Jianghu Hanzi, and when The Iron General was ordered to lead the army to carry out this annihilation war, and the battle was extremely fierce, some people wanted to entrust The White Boss to meet the Iron General, hoping to have a chance for a glimmer of life, but then it did not work.

The reason why I think of this annihilation war is because the old twelve-day officer, who was chased by the army and hid in the Lanjia Pass, was exactly what happened at that time.

Therefore, when I thought of the fact that the Iron General had been taken prisoner, only twelve people besides himself knew about it, and I immediately thought of the Twelve Heavenly Officers.

The Twelve Heavenly Officers relied on their own superb martial arts, plus twelve people acting in unison, always with one heart, so that they could escape from the pursuit of thousands of troops and horses, and could they save the rest of their lives under the orders of the extremely harsh and fierce rushing to kill.

As for the rest, there are no survivors, only some of which belong to "beautiful legends", such as a pair of men and women, resolute and unyielding, still in the mountains and mountains, and the army is fighting guerrillas.

For a time, Boss Bai tried to contact some survivors, but after several efforts, he did not succeed, so he had to think that no one could survive at all.

In that period of history, the iron egg, as the supreme commander of military operations, naturally could not be clearer. But how could he, as the commander of the army, become a prisoner? Even if the Twelve Heavenly Officials had their own skills, the Iron Egg itself was not a weak person, so how could it become their captive?

My mind was chaotic, and in an instant, I thought of many things, the main thing being that I did not know much about this extremely harsh struggle, and I could not help but show a very confused look.

The iron egg turned the wheelchair and turned around ten times, but it can be seen that he was also very excited at this time.

I reached out, pressed down on the wheelchair, didn't let him turn again, looked at him, and said word for word: "Twelve heavenly officials? ”

The iron egg suddenly gritted his teeth and actually made a "grid" sound, which showed the hatred in his heart -- the soldiers were captured, especially the invincible and invincible generals like him, and became prisoners, which was naturally the biggest hatred in his life. He gritted his teeth and his neck seemed a little stiff, but as a result, he nodded.

I took a "hmm" breath—he had answered my question, but the doubts in his heart were even worse.

The Twelve Heavenly Officers and the Army, at that time, were in a completely hostile position, with absolutely no room for compromise. The supreme order of the army was "total annihilation." Under such circumstances, if the Twelve Heavenly Officers had caught the Iron General, there should have been no reason to deal with this matter in secret.

Although, under the circumstances at that time, even if the Iron General was openly questioned, he could not save the fate of being annihilated. But according to common sense, it should be an extraordinary victory, it must be publicized publicly, it must be improved, and even if it is finally inevitable to die, it will die happily - this is the ultimate life that those people are pursuing, how can they easily miss the opportunity?

But such a big event has finally become a secret, and naturally there are many twists and turns in it - since I don't know much about the situation, it is naturally difficult to make any explanation. Iron Egg suddenly changed the subject, he reached out and stroked his face heavily, and asked me: "There is a person named Lei Jiutian, have you heard of it?" ”

I shuddered: "Thunder nine days thunder nine days?" ”

Iron Egg nodded, and I said, "I haven't seen it, but I've heard of this person, who is excellent in martial arts, who has broken into the rivers and lakes, and who is very famous in the north and south of the great river, and I heard that after he turned ninety, he announced his withdrawal from the jianghu, and he no longer asked whether the world was a grievance or not, and he has retired." ”

The iron egg "Hmmm" sounded, as if satisfied with my words. The Lei Jiutian he mentioned was an extremely legendary figure, famous in the jianghu, there were many strange things, some of which may not have anything to do with him at all, but because he was too famous, it was even on his head.

A thunder nine days, a white boss, thunder nine days in the south, the white dragon head in the north, are all well-known figures. But it was very strange that these two martial arts masters had never met before.

There have been many good deeds who have tried to win them over, but in their hearts, although they all have great admiration for each other, they also have a certain degree of jealousy, so they deliberately avoid it and have never seen it before. Boss Bai and I have only briefly mentioned lei Jiutian as a person, and I know that many things about this person are not told to me by Boss Bai -- anyway, the things of the jianghu characters are recited by everyone, and on many occasions, people will mention it.

(Coincidentally, immediately after this matter was over, I learned about the nine days of thunder and nine days of thunder at dr. Yuan Zhenxia, and learned that he had died in a tragic situation with an evil force known as the "Cosmic Killer.") Listening to Yuan Zhenxia's narration of the past, the blood of the people who heard it boiled and sighed. ）

At that time, I didn't know why Iron Egg was talking about his capture, and suddenly mentioned Lei Jiutian.

Iron Egg took a breath: "That military mission, what you have to face is not the enemy's regular army, but just a lot of mess... The indistinguishable human world—"

Before I could finish speaking, I raised my hand and interrupted him.

Because I knew he would most likely use adjectives like "dregs" next, and I would never agree with him.

Because of his position, he must despise the enemy, but I am not a soldier, so the heroic man who tends not to yield is naturally different from him, and in order to avoid quarrels, it is better not to let him say it.

Iron Egg smiled a little and changed his mouth: "It is a group of jianghu men, so there is a very special group sent by the head to serve as an advisor, and Lei Jiutian is the leader of this group..." ”

I raised my eyebrows—there was such a passage in the history of Lei's nine days, and I didn't know it.

(Later, at Dr. Yuan Zhenxia, I learned that Lei Jiutian had indeed cooperated with the regime, and that he had served as an intelligence agency, teaching the martial arts training instructor of high-level intelligence and teaching a lot of intelligence people with special skills.) ）

I still haven't said anything, and I'll wait for him to say it.

Iron Egg smiled bitterly: "As soon as he arrived, he proposed to me that I must have special protection so as not to be taken advantage of by the enemy." ”

The iron egg touched his face again, and suddenly sighed: "Many years ago, it is like it happened yesterday." ”

Guys, as I said earlier, when telling this story, we take the approach of "hiding the real thing", so the next stroke is more tortuous. It is also possible that in terms of time, it seems that it does not seem to be very consistent, a little confused, and that is naturally deliberate.

Anyway, the content of the story is important, the time and place are just a background. The background, even if it is just a white cloth, the stage is a good play, the same is still a good play. Otherwise, even if the background is full of flowers and the weather is varied, it cannot make the bad drama into a good drama.

For the iron egg, treating the real thing as "yesterday" is naturally just his psychological feeling, in fact, over the years, the experience of the iron egg is rich, the waves are terrifying, one after another, otherwise, he would not have changed from a great general who was in a big situation to an idle person in a wheelchair and cutting flowers on the banks of the Rhine.

Well, the Iron General said that it was like yesterday, just as if it were yesterday. Although the pursuit and suppression operation had only just begun, the style of the Iron General had always been that of a pioneer, so his headquarters was also located in the middle of the mountains, on a hilltop.

There was a village on the top of the mountain, originally there were only about a dozen households, so poor that at this time, the villagers had long since lost their way, and in the midst of the chaos of the soldiers and horses, no one paid any attention to them.

Of the empty houses, two or three of which had not yet collapsed, became the headquarters of the Iron General.

The Iron General also knew that the mission was easy to accomplish—it wasn't actually a military mission, it was just a killing mission. The enemy to be dealt with is only a group of stubborn people, with no hope of victory, the question is only the length of time of stubborn resistance and the bloody depth of the process.

Therefore, General Iron was not very nervous, and even a little dissatisfied with this task, but this task was personally handed over by the supreme leader. The supreme leader has long been elevated to the status of "god", so the Iron General also feels the glory of being unworthy.

After receiving the order, the supreme leader received it alone, and after briefly explaining the task, there was a remark, as if he was muttering to himself, and it was like he was giving a lecture to the iron egg, and the iron egg listened very carefully, that was actually in the early morning, the supreme leader was notoriously sleepless all night, and the iron general was also full of energy, but he did not understand those words very clearly, and, after thinking about it repeatedly, he could not get all the essentials.