Yan Huiguan was defeated, and corpse carts were lined up from the city gate to the river beach.
However, the supervisory army from the capital held a celebration banquet and forced Pei Cuo, a 19-year-old military scribe, to write a victory report: 80,000 enemies were killed and our army suffered 300 casualties.
Pei Cuo had been in charge of the death register for seven days, and he knew that what was missing from the paper was not numbers, but the names of 13,274 people waiting to go home.
So when the generals in the hall were toasting, he dipped his own blood and wrote only one sentence on the victory report:
"In the winter of the thirty-seventh year of Dayin's reign, Yan Huiguan was defeated. There were thirteen thousand guards, but not a single one surrendered."
As soon as the word fell, the victory drum shattered, and thousands of graves outside the city rang in unison.
Those soldiers who were deleted from the battle reports by the court walked back to the world from the history in the wind and snow.
Some people say that Pei made a mistake and summoned the army to die, and he is a historian appointed by heaven; some people say that he slandered the dynasty and undermined the destiny, and deserved Ling Chi. But Pei Cuo soon discovered that Yan Huiguan's false victory report was only one page: In the three hundred years since the founding of Dayin, it had deleted a city, corrected nine defeats, created twenty-four saints, and written a long-extinct dynasty as never having existed.
What's even more frightening is that his own name is also on a death book from sixteen years ago.
From a prisoner on death row at the border to a historian, from one person to overturning the case to tens of thousands of people to testify, Pei Cuo will go through the wars of wars in various countries, the secrets of temples and the old history sealed by the gods, and recover the names that were taken away by the victors one by one.
Until the emperors of the world and the gods in the sky joined forces and asked him to write the last lie:
"The world has been like this since ancient times."
When Pei Cuo picked up his pen, all the mountains and rivers were witnesses.
