"A heaven-sent opportunity lies right before you. Miss this chance, and you will never again have such a direct path to the summit!"
"Time waits for no one. Hesitate even a moment, and something unexpected might happen."
"With a retreat in your hearts, how can you press forward without hesitation? Have you forgotten how King Xiang smashed his cooking pots and sank his boats?"
"Bring forth all your spirit and strength, every last drop of your lifeblood, and charge through this barrier! If you do not advance courageously now, what are you waiting for?"
"Will you wait until Luoyang's dukes and ministers recover their strength, then slink back to Liangzhou to be despised, to be cursed as frontier commandery brutes, to spend eternity on battlefields of flying flesh and blood?"
"Don't you want to sit comfortably in Luoyang and obtain everything with a few gestures?"
"If you don't fight with your lives now, for the next hundred, two hundred years, your descendants will still be looked down upon by the descendants of those dukes and ministers!"
Li Ru's voice rang in the Western Liang Generals' ears, hearts, and minds, sending everyone's blood surging. "Are you willing to live that life again?"
"No!"
"No!"
After this letter, the gloom within the city deepened. Although Dong Zhuo was a frontier commandery warrior, at least so far, he had done nothing particularly outrageous, nothing that would make everyone wary of him.
As long as the enemy offered enough benefits, they would switch allegiances faster than anyone.
"We do not know what will happen if Dong Zhuo enters the city. We absolutely cannot take that risk.
"To put it bluntly, some advocates of fighting to the death only take that stance because circumstances prevent them from surrendering. They originally wanted to surrender but chose