C41 (1/2)

”General Zongzheng, farewell!” After Wu Mei finished speaking, she did not stay any longer and turned around, walking down the tower.

Seeing that Tang Yin stood where he was without moving, afraid that he would be too stubborn and insist on staying at Tong Gate, Qiu Zhen anxiously pulled at the corner of his clothes and said softly: ”We should leave too.”

Tang Yin didn't plan to stay in the Tong Gate.

He nodded towards Qiu Zhen, signalling for him to be patient. Then, he said to Gu Yue and Le Tian, ”The two of you, come with me!”

”What?” Gu Yue and Le Tian were both startled. As the two of them were the guards of Tong Gate, how could they leave together with Tang Yin?

Looking at the blood stains and wounds on the two of them, Tang Yin said: ”Both of you are injured now, let alone fighting, even walking is a problem, what can you do?”

Gu Yue was furious after hearing that, and said angrily: ”Do you think I am someone who is afraid of death? General Zongzheng would rather live or die with the Tong Gate, how can I cower?! ”

Tang Yin scoffed, and said: ”Do you think making meaningless sacrifices is the so-called loyalty and devotion to your country?”

”You …” If Tang Yin's rank was not higher than his, Gu Yue really wanted to rush over and ruthlessly punch him twice. Of course, whether or not he could beat him was another question.

Wu Mei, who was originally going down the tower stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Tang Yin curiously. She did not understand why Tang Yin, who was usually cold and emotionless, would suddenly insist on bringing the two of them away.

Actually, Tang Yin had his own plans.

Since he decided to stay in the military and develop himself, he wanted to do well.

Although Wu Mei gave him the position of the captain of the second squadron, that was only an empty job, the second squadron was already finished at the Hedong Region, and when he returned to the Yan City, they would definitely recruit and rebuild. As for what kind of people he could recruit, he was unsure, but he had a good impression of Gu Yue and Le Tian, and if he wanted to recruit these two, furthermore, the people he personally picked would easily become his trusted aides.

Wu Mei didn't understand what Tang Yin was thinking. He thought he had fought side by side with Gu Yue and Le Tian for an entire day, cultivated their relationship, and couldn't bear to see the two of them staying in the Tong Gate to die.

She shook her head and laughed: ”These two are General Zongzheng's men. Tang Yin, don't force others!”

Gu Yue and Le Tian didn't join the army for long, and their ranks weren't high either. They were merely the captains in charge of a hundred people, and Zongzheng Guangxiao didn't even recognize them. Seeing that Tang Yin insisted on taking the two of them away, and that the both of them were indeed wounded, Zongzheng Guangxiao was also willing to help out with the situation, and said to Gu Le: ”General Tang is right, I see that your injuries aren't light, and even if you stayed, you might not have done anything, so you should just follow General Tang!”

”General Zongzheng...” Gu Yue and Le Tian kneeled down and said at the same time, ”This subordinate is not afraid of death!”

”I know.” Zongzheng laughed widely: ”In fact, just as General Tang had said, making unnecessary sacrifices would be better to leave behind a useful body, and then we can seek to repay back to the in the future!”

”General Zongzheng...”

”There's no need for that. You two can go!” Saying that, he turned to Wu Mei and said: ”I had originally planned to no longer trouble General Wu, but there are a lot of wounded soldiers in the city, I wonder if General Wu can take them away with you?”

This was a troublesome matter, there were at least a thousand injured soldiers, and Wu Mei did not have many soldiers that she could use, how could she bring all these people away? After a moment of silence, she said, ”I'll do my best. I'll take as many as I can.”

”I'm really sorry to trouble you, General Wu.”

”General Zongzheng is too polite.”

Just like this, Wu Mei and the others left the Tong Gate, and Tang Yin also fulfilled his wish to bring Gu Yue and Le Tian away. At the same time, he brought hundreds of heavily injured soldiers with him.

On the way back to the Yan City, Gu Yue and Le Tian both had gloomy and cold expressions.

Knowing that the two were feeling uncomfortable, Tang Yin did not mind. Walking to the two of them, he said: ”Don't think that being unafraid of death represents you being extremely loyal, to be noble, there are many people in this world who are not afraid of death, dying meaninglessly only represents stupidity and foolishness!”

Tang Yin spoke in a straightforward manner, not leaving any face for their relationship.

After Gu Yue and Le Tian heard this, their faces became even uglier.

”It's better to die than to die …” If the two of you are willing to choose the latter, then I will not stop you two. This place is not too far from the Tong Gate, the two of you can go back right now! ” He had originally wanted to say that death was more important than Mount Tai, but upon second thought, he realized that the two of them would not know what Mount Tai was. Thus, he decided to just leave it out.

Gu Yue wanted to say something, but he was already angered, but he could not even open his mouth to spit out a single word. After a moment of silence, he breathed out again.

Actually what Tang Yin said was not wrong, with their current situation, even if they stayed in Tong Gate, it would be useless.

What the two of them were dissatisfied with was that Tang Yin did not ask for their permission and still decided to force the decision, which hurt their self-esteem.

After bowing his head for a long time, Gu Yue finally squeezed out two words from between his teeth: ”Thank you.”