Chapter 2248 - The Struggle of a Desperate Beast! (1/2)

Chapter 2248: The Struggle of a Desperate Beast!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Even though Wang Chong was determined to get rid of An Lushan, this source of calamity, even he was shocked by what he was hearing.

An Lushan had admired the Great Tang!

An Lushan had loved the Great Tang and had wanted to become a Tang?!

How could that be?!!

This man who had wanted to destroy the Central Plains and topple the Great Tang, who had brought the otherworldly invaders to this world, bringing countless people to calamity and causing rivers of blood to flow, had loved the Great Tang and wanted to become a Tang.

If everything he said was true, then destiny had truly been playing a massive joke.

As he stared at the red-eyed An Lushan who appeared like a furious beast, Wang Chong found himself unable to speak.

A man at his deathbed would speak sincerely. An Lushan knew that he was dead, so he had no need to conceal this matter.

Wang Chong felt that everything An Lushan was saying was true.

The plain of ice was quiet, the only sound the wailing of the wind.

“Hahaha…”

An Lushan let out a sorrowful and indignant laugh that traveled far into the distance.

“Zhang Shougui said that I betrayed him, but I was the one that was really betrayed. I had heard that he was the Protector-General of Andong, a great hero of the Great Tang. I left Mount Yaluo to find him, hoping to mimic Qili Hebi and serve Zhang Shougui in achieving great things for the Great Tang.

“But when I arrived at Youzhou, what was waiting for me? Torture and humiliation! I regarded Zhang Shougui as a hero, but he treated me as a beast, granting me the title of ‘slave general’ to humiliate me and jeering, torturing, and mocking me every day.

“But even then, I still held onto a sliver of hope. I captured my own people in the naive belief that I could prove to Zhang Shougui that I was sincerely loyal to the Great Tang and that everyone would accept me. But… what did I get?”

An Lushan crazily laughed.

“Zhang Shougui treated me as an ant, an insignificant being. You were born to a clan of ministers and generals, had never met me before and held no grudge, but just because I was a Hu, you charged into a restaurant and tried to kill me. Again and again, you targeted me.

“Zhang Shougui was like that, you were like that, and even that one you call the eternal sovereign, the Sage Emperor, was like that. The Great Tang was said to be a place where Hu and Han coexisted, but how many Hu Great Generals were there in the Imperial Court? How many Hu Prime Ministers?

“The Great Tang that I had admired as a child, that Great Tang that accepted all people, was all a lie. It never existed.

“Since I couldn’t get the Great Tang I wanted, I would destroy it and set up a new Great Tang that was truly tolerant.”

An Lushan laughed like a madman.

As Wang Chong looked at An Lushan, his eyes slowly turned to pity.

This monologue from An Lushan’s heart truly did surprise him, but if he were allowed to succeed, countless people would die. For that ‘Great Tang’ he desired, he was even willing to draw over the otherworldly invaders. The consequences for allowing him to realize his ideals were unthinkable.

A general’s success was established on ten thousand bleached bones, but An Lushan had already surpassed a general in terms of death toll. Not even a sea of corpses would be enough to describe the chaos he was about to bring on the world.

‘After me, the flood.’ This sort of saying described exactly someone like An Lushan!

“An Lushan…” Wang Chong began, his expression indifferent and his voice emotionless.

“You say that you wanted to establish a new ‘Great Tang’, a truly tolerant ‘Great Tang’, and I admit that what you say is true. But what is the reason you believe you can do something like this?”

“The reason?”

An Lushan was taken aback at first, but he proceeded to laugh.

“Hahaha, because I’m better! I’m a Turk, but in my Youzhou army, Cui Qianyou is a Han, Tian Qianzhen is a Han, Tian Chengsi is a Han, Gao Shang is a Han, and Zhao Kan is a Han… The number of Han generals I have is greater than all of the Hu generals in the Great Tang added together. I even have many Han soldiers under my command. I treat them all as my own. Can any of you compare to me?

“You? Or that Sage Emperor, that eternal sovereign that all of you praise?”

An Lushan looked at Wang Chong and coldly sneered.

Even if he had to lose, he would lose more gloriously than anyone else.

Was there anyone since ancient times that could coexist between Hu and Han as well as him?

Wang Chong, the so-called King of Foreign Lands, was still a narrow-minded person. If he were allowed to establish his ideal empire, would the King of Foreign Lands be anything to talk about?

When it came to an open mind, was there anyone in the world that could compare to him?

Wang Chong shook his head. He had only a single question in reply to An Lushan’s impassioned appearance.

“Then… Cui Qianyou, Tian Chengsi, Tian Qianzhen, and Gao Shang—where are they now?”

Bzzz!