In the autumn of the first year of Jingtai, the Wa Ci army pressed on Datong City. Huo Shimeng, the general of the Shenji Battalion, led 800 remnant soldiers to defend the city tower. There was a huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves, and it would take a day for reinforcements to arrive. From midnight to dawn, the brothers around him fell one by one, and finally he was the only one left. When the city was destroyed, he carried the silver hairpin for Xiao Ruolan and the green pine jade pendant for Nalan Qingsang, rushed into the army alone, detonated the gunpowder, and died in the city. This article takes Huo Shimeng's last battle as the thread, interweaves the friendship with Kunlun sword fairy Nalan Qingsang, and the unresolved love with Jiangnan girl Xiao Ruolan, and writes about the courage and character of a mortal general bursting out in a desperate situation.
Even though he knew he was going to die, he still stood and went to the appointment.
Intention: When faced with a desperate situation, the choice for mortals is not not to be afraid of death, but to know that their death is meaningful. Huo Jiemeng did not have heaven-defying cultivation, he was just an ordinary person who could feel pain and fear, but he chose to leave his life in front of the gate of Datong City, exchanging the death of one person for the survival of a whole city. This kind of solitary courage of "doing something even though you know you can't do it", and the dignity and responsibility you still maintain before death, are the "character".