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"...Therefore, the barbarians are all greedy, cunning and untrustworthy. They can use swords and weapons but not benevolence and righteousness. If they are not of my race, their hearts must be different! The prosperous Zhou Dynasty has billions of people, and good generals and warriors must be sent to guard the four directions; If there are any intruders, we will kill them all to avoid further trouble. We will hang our beard heads in the blue sky, build up the capital and watch beside the purple fortress, make it clear from thousands of miles away, and say: Anyone who openly offends the power of the Great Zhou Heaven will be punished no matter how far away!"

inside the room.

After finishing writing "Stone City Wars", Zhou Ming put away his pen and stood up, twisted his stiff neck, and stretched his waist.

This "Stone City War" has more than 20,000 words in total, describing in detail the entire process from the rise of beacon smoke, to gathering generals to go on an expedition, long-distance marches, to the difficult defense of the city, and to the defeat of the stubborn enemy.

This article describes the whole battle in a detailed and easy-to-understand manner, with ups and downs. The war scenes are described so wonderfully and vividly that anyone reading this article will feel as if they are watching a Hollywood 3D special effects blockbuster. The war scenes are full of images, as if they were immersed in the scene, and extremely shocking.

Of course, as the author of this article, Zhou Ming also wrote a lot about his own description, including his "glorious deeds" of killing hundreds of Tufan warriors with perfect accuracy; and holding a silver gun and fighting side by side with the old general. The "heroic performance" of defending the dilapidated city to the death... I believe it will be in the hearts of readers, and I will give myself a lot of points.

However, Zhou Ming did not clearly disclose the specific number of enemies killed. He described his performance as "shooting hundreds of arrows in a row, killing the enemy with each strike". It was already an extraordinary monster. Any more exaggeration would be a bit inhuman.

He did not say what a great hero he was, but described the ordinary soldiers stationed at the border as flesh-and-blood heroes who could sing and cry, and then wrote emotionally: "I am so lucky to be able to fight side by side with these heroes in this life!"

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September of the twenty-fifth year of Tiansheng.

The Battle of Stone City, half a month after the end.

As the messenger reporting the great victory entered the imperial capital Luojing, the news came that 60,000 Tufan had been killed and 20,000 captured, and the imperial court of the Great Zhou Dynasty was in great spirits, and the emperor and his ministers rejoiced.

The "Battle of Stone City" attached to the commemoration of victory. Sitting on the phoenix chariot and wearing a phoenix crown, Queen Wu Mei read this article intently. Under the surprised eyes of the ministers, she suddenly He clapped his palms and laughed loudly: "It's a good sentence, 'Anyone who violates the power of Zhou Tianwei will be punished even if he is far away', good, this article is very good!"

Seeing the ministers in the palace looking confused and puzzled, Queen Wu Mei handed the article to the beautiful young female official beside her and said: "Yu'er, for all the ministers, please read this article. "

"promise."

The glamorous female officer took the article, glanced at it, and was taken aback for a moment, good words! Even the words written by Wang Youjun, the sage of calligraphy, are not as good as the words on this article, right?

She was just lost for a moment. She picked up the article, cleared her throat, and started reading. After a while, not only her, but also the civil and military officials in the palace fell into the story of the golden war and iron horse described in the article. With the development of the story, sometimes I frowned and worried deeply; sometimes I was radiant and cheered loudly;

At the end of the reading, the clear and clear female officer's clear voice trembled and said:

"Therefore, the barbarians are all greedy and cunning and cannot be trusted. They can use swords and weapons but cannot use kindness and righteousness. If they are not of my race, their hearts must be different! The prosperous Zhou Dynasty has billions of people, and good generals and warriors must be sent to guard the four directions; if there are any Anyone who invades will be killed to avoid further trouble. Hang his beard head in the blue sky, build the capital and watch beside the purple fortress, make it clear from thousands of miles away, and say: Anyone who openly offends the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away!"

"Lottery! Big lottery!"

"Anyone who commits a crime against Great Zhou Tianwei will be punished no matter how far away... Good, good!"

"Well written! Great Zhou Tianwei, how can you allow that barbarian to offend lightly? If there is an offender, he will be punished!"

"Who wrote this majestic article? If you have such a great talent, why don't you serve the country and become an official in the court?"

"The author of this article is Tian Jian and Tian Zihua from Qingzhou. He is twenty years old and is known as the 'Haiping Literary Immortal'. He is famous for his literary talent. It is said that he is traveling around the world and his whereabouts are uncertain. Unexpectedly, he went to the Western Regions. And he wrote such a majestic essay," said an official.

"You can write such an article at the age of twenty, go into battle to kill the enemy, shoot hundreds of arrows, and kill the enemy with a burst of fire. You are both civil and military. I wonder if you are married?" An official surnamed Li suddenly asked.

Hearing this, the eyes of a tall and burly military general next to him lit up and he said excitedly: "I have a tiger girl named Shiba, who is worthy of this son! This son is capable of literature and martial arts, and he and my daughter are a perfect match!"

Thinking of the excitement, he took a step forward, knelt on the ground, raised his hands to the Queen of Heaven Wu Mei and said: "Please, Your Highness, the Queen of Heaven, grant a marriage to Qiaozhen, the daughter of the last general, and betroth her to Natian Jiantian Zihua. This son is a good match for my daughter." , please grant it to Her Majesty the Queen of Heaven!"

As soon as the general finished speaking, the cold and mocking words of several civil servants immediately made him so angry that he wanted to draw their swords to kill.

"General Wei, your daughter Qiaozhen is more than 200 catties fat, and she is good at wielding a 88 catties sword. How can she be considered a match made in heaven with Mr. Zihua?"

"You have self-knowledge. General Wei, civil and military have different ways. You tiger girl, you should find another good match!"

"I also have a female sixteen, who is graceful and quiet, and who is the most proficient in female red embroidery. If Tian Zihua sees her, she will definitely call me father-in-law!"

"Mr. Zihua is a famous person in the world. How can he be the son-in-law of a vulgar warrior and insult the gentlemen?"

"You poor and stupid people! I'm going to beat you to death!"

The military general Wei Yuanzhong was furious. He rolled up his sleeves and punched these civil servants with his fists as big as sand bowls. If he hadn't been grabbed by his colleagues on the side, he might have caused injuries and bloodshed in this solemn court. .

Queen Wu Mei also frowned and coughed heavily: "How is it appropriate to make such a noise in the court hall?"

With a sweep of her red phoenix eyes, everyone who looked at her lowered their heads and stood still.

However, listening to the officials discussing Tian Zihua's marriage heatedly, she suddenly thought: her youngest daughter, Princess Anping, is sixteen years old, virtuous, well-behaved, intelligent, good at writing, and has a high vision, and this Mr. Zihua is very talented in literature. I just don’t know his true appearance...

There was silence in the palace for a while, then Prime Minister Lou Shide stood up holding a scepter and said: "Your Majesty the Queen of Heaven, there are many sages in the wild who are not used by the court. Those who will imitate them in the future will surely follow them. Tian Zihua is a man with unparalleled literary talents, extraordinary martial arts, and a famous name." In the world, the imperial court has decided to recruit them and drive them to serve the country, so that they can show their love and use their talents, and avoid them from wasting their time, traveling around and making people miserable."

"Can!"

Wu Mei nodded and agreed to the prime minister's proposal.

…

Furong Court.

A royal garden is located on the south bank of Quchi River, close to Luojing City, covering an area of ​​more than 500 acres, surrounded by high walls, and there are seventeen miles of cloisters in the garden. And on the south bank highland beside Qushui, there are magnificent buildings like Ziyun Tower and Zixia Pavilion, which are like fairy mountain lofts. In the garden, there is also a hibiscus garden covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, various scenic spots are so beautiful.

This is also the place where Emperor Li Zhi of the Zhou Dynasty spent a long time recuperating from illness.

"My head doesn't hurt anymore, my head doesn't hurt anymore!"

On this day, Li Zhi, who had been lying in bed all day with a towel on his forehead and suffering from a splitting headache on hot days, sat upright at this moment. His headache symptoms had completely disappeared, his eyesight was clear and he felt refreshed.

"That's great, Father, it's great that your head doesn't hurt!"

The girl in royal attire sitting next to the bed put down the scroll in her hand and cried with joy. She lay in Li Zhi's arms and began to cry.

"My good daughter, it doesn't matter if I have a headache. These days, you have suffered a lot."

Li Zhi rubbed his daughter's hair with his hands and said lovingly that he is now more of an ordinary kind father than an emperor who rules over hundreds of millions of people.

Li Zhi felt very emotional that his daughter, the youngest and most sensible, stayed with him at his bedside when he was dizzy and in great pain. Even though the medicine and stone were ineffective, she still tried every means to relieve his headache symptoms. This filial piety is so true and sincere that no other child can match it.

Perhaps sincerity leads to wisdom, this daughter really found a method with remarkable results, which alleviated his dizziness many times.

This method is to listen to her daughter recite poems and essays written by Mr. Zihua, whom she admires most. These poems and essays seem to exude a magical power, whether it is "Deng Taiyan Ji", "Deng Taishan Fu", "Human World" "Tianya Fu", "Tianya Fu", "Yanbo Fu"... all of them fascinated people and plunged them into a special artistic conception. They even gave him the idea of ​​​​traveling around the world to see these beautiful scenery.

There are also some poems that can keep the head from hurting for a long time after just listening to one or two poems. Li Zhida sighed: "With such a talented person, why not join the court as an official? I am willing to confer the position of prime minister to him."

My daughter Anping admires this Mr. Zihua very much. Through various channels, she has collected all his works, not to mention some of the poems and articles he wrote by heart. When talking about Mr. Zihua, she looked full of admiration. "I wish I could marry Mr. Zihua." When his daughter's cheeks were red, her pretty eyes were full of spring, and she was speechless, Li Zhi laughed loudly and said, "When Mr. Zihua comes to Luojing, I will definitely give him the gift of marriage." Get married and recruit him to be your consort!"

"Father, you know how to make fun of Anping, and Anping will ignore you!"

Although she said this, there was no hint of displeasure on Princess Anping's face. Instead, there was a trace of inexplicable expectation in her eyes.

This made Li Zhi laugh again.

The father and daughter got to know Mr. Zihua more and more, but they never expected that Mr. Zihua, who had been silent for more than two months after returning dozens of frontier fortress poems in May and June this year, would pass through Ganzhou. The Kuai Ma Military News reported an article called "The Battle of Stone City".

This article does not have beautiful scenery, but instead details a magnificent border war. The war scenes described in it are really hard to calm down.

The sentence "Anyone who openly offends the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away" made Li Zhi sit up and shout "Cai! Cai! Cai!" three times in a row. His dizziness and dizziness disappeared instantly.

"Tian Zihua is one of the most talented people in the world. I really want to see him in person."

When the eunuch Ma Dexi heard the words, he immediately came up with an idea and said, "Why don't your majesty issue an edict to Tian Zihua to go to Beijing to meet the saint? Wouldn't he just come over?"

"Okay! Then the imperial decree will order him to come and see you!"

…

In the twenty-fifth year of Tiansheng, it was mid-October.

In the latest issue of "Collected Works of Zihua" published by more than a thousand Zihua Bookstores across ten states in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Mr. Zihua, who has not published any poetry works in the past three months, the number of works published this time actually accounts for More than half of this issue of "Collected Works of Zihua".

Including the more than 20,000-word article "The Battle of Stone City", and hundreds of poems such as "Broken Formation? Night March", "The Proud Fisherman? Thoughts on Autumn", "Poetry of Going Out of the Fortress", etc.

As soon as these works came out, they soon caused shock in the literary world, the court, and the world!

"Mr. Zihua, I wish I could go to Stone City with you, and I wish I could kill the enemy and serve the country with General Su!"

"Anyone who openly violates the power of the Great Zhou will be punished no matter how far away he is! He will be punished! Long live my Great Zhou!"

"My man, why don't you take Wu Gou and conquer the fifty kingdoms in the Western Region? I would rather be a centurion than a scholar. I also want to take that three-foot green sword and ride on the border with Mr. Zihua to kill all the barbarians!"

"When I was drunk, I read the sword by burning the lamp, and I dreamed of blowing the trumpet company... I finished the king's affairs in the world, won the reputation in life and death, and the general was born in vain! Old General Su is brave and loyal, and he is an old man who is admirable."

"But if the Flying General of Dragon City is here, I will not teach Hu Ma to cross the Yin Mountain! I am also willing to be the Flying General of Dragon City, guarding the border forever, killing all the barbarians, and protecting my Zhou Dao forever!"

"Stop studying, join the army and serve the country!"

These articles and poems have inspired countless passionate young people to write and join the military, abandon literature and join the military, and join the army. In the future, some of these young people will become famous generals, some will shed blood on the battlefield, and some will become the backbone of the Great Zhou Dynasty... It is undeniable Yes, it is through these poems and essays written by Mr. Zihua in the frontier fortress that the fate of countless people has changed.

These frontier fortress poems also injected a martial spirit into the Zhou Kingdom.

Since then, no land in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty have ever fallen into the hands of any foreign race.

And the name of Mr. Zihua is world-famous and known all over the world.

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