Originally Posted by
tape
I wonder if he would have realized that fact if all the other misfortunes didn't happen. At the time, his masters had recently been killed, his mother died, and he thought Huang Rong also died.
Before his mother and Huang Rong died, he saw countless people massacred in the battlefield due to his leadership, but I don't remember him being too emotional.
It really takes a traumatic event to happen on the personal level before people can see the greater scope of things, it seems.
Since Genghis Khan became the Great Khan, nobody had ever dared to defy
his order. This time Guo Jing bravely hampered his order to massacre the
city; he was really angry. With a loud shout he threw his long saber to
the ground; then sped his horse back to the city.
The other generals cast their angry looks toward Guo Jing; now that the
Great Khan was angry who knew who would be unlucky enough to bear the
brunt of his anger. They were also discontented, since as Samarkhand?s
defense was broken, they were hoping to plunder and kill to their
hearts? content for several days; but now their hopes were shattered.
Guo Jing knew the resentment of others, but he ignored them all, he rode
his little red horse slowly to a secluded place. Since the beginning of
the war, thousands upon thousands homes had been burnt to the ground,
corpses scattered everywhere, the snow covered plain was dyed red with
blood. He thought, ?War brings wretched disaster; bad as it is now. In
order for me to seek vengeance for my father I have commanded troops to
kill these many people. In order to rule the world, the Great Khan has
killed even more people. But for the officers, soldiers, and the common
people, what did they do to deserve the cruelest death; their bones
abandoned in the wilderness??
The more he thought, the more restless his heart became, ?I destroyed a
city to avenge my father, actually killed these many people. In the end,
is it worth it?? He wandered around the wilderness on horseback, going
back and forth while painstakingly thinking deeply. It was dark when
finally decided to go back to his camp.
Even as he was asking Genghis to spare the Samarkandians, he was aware he was throwing away his future with Huang Rong. Immediately after Genghis gave the order to stop, Guo Jing wandered off in thought and came to the conclusion that his revenge wasn't worth what it had cost the people of Samarkand. At the time, Huang Rong was waiting for the news that Guo Jing had asked Genghis to annull his betrothal to Huazheng. When Guo Jing eventually returned to camp, he was met by the just-arrived Qiu Chuji, and when he exited that, he was met by Huazheng. Huang Rong saw that the betrothal was obviously not annulled, didn't wait for an explanation, and disappeared.
Back to the thread subject. I'm sure Ren Woxing was pretty satisfied when he avenged himself on Dongfang Bubai.