My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 290 The Truth
The sun shines on his face, and the fatigue on his body is slowly fading away.

Su Chen listened to the footsteps and low voices of the soldiers around him, which was a reassuring feeling.

'It's just peace of mind... a lot of people died... damn. '

Thinking of the opponent's ambush this time, I thought that the opponent had great power and resourcefulness. He had predicted in advance that he would deal with Xirong, or did he leak the news and let the Luo Tie in the western grassland ambush in advance.

Who knew that the other party would choose this time to annex the Corpse Division.

Just in time, he launched a lightning attack on the zombie tribe, allowing the slightly slower Luoti tribe to lurk and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.

'But...why would Luotiang Guiba want to annex a large tribe that is not inferior to him in size, and it seems that he also intends to target me...'

Thinking about it, Su Chen opened his eyes and sat up. Our corpses were already being collected on the battlefield, and the living people were taking out family letters from the arms of their dead comrades.

It is winter again in the grasslands and Shaolin trees. There is no way to burn and take the ashes back, so we can only dig pits and bury them.

The heaviest losses this time were the shield warriors, totaling 500, of which [-] remained in the Yanjing Palace. Most of the [-] people who went on the expedition were soldiers from the imperial city back then, and some were veterans of the Ding'an Army.

Only 500 of the 700 people survived, and more than 100 people were seriously injured and disabled.

There were five thousand slave soldiers. Their armor protection was low, but they were cold-resistant, tall, and good at bows, crossbows, and throwing knives. On the contrary, they survived a lot in the melee, with only more than 100 casualties.

"Prepare a large cart to carry the seriously injured soldiers back to Yantang Pass. You must not sleep in the open on the way. You must camp in the tribes that have been cleared along the way!"

"The armor and weapons are piled here for now, and we will let other soldiers and horses come to pull them later."

"There are also war horses... This is the single biggest gain..."

After giving several orders in succession, Su Chen asked Ling Qi to leave. Su Chen watched the corpses passing by from sight and being carried into the mud pit.

He walked to the edge of the pit, looked at it for a long time, and then suddenly knelt down and kowtowed three times to the soldiers of his command who died in the eyes of a group of Youyan Army and Shengnu Army soldiers who were carrying and shoveling the soil.

After silently bowing three times, Su Chen was helped up by Wu Zixun who rushed over, "Your Majesty, what are you doing!?"

"Thank you for their life-saving grace!" Su Chen's cheeks bulged out from biting, "The guard force will be increased to a maximum limit, with a permanent cavalry and regular troops. This kind of thing can't happen again."

Taking a deep breath, Su Chen turned his head away and returned to the ancestral coffin. Dian Wei had been carried back by the soldiers and was lying half-body in the carriage, snoring loudly.

Outside the carriage, half of Xu Chu's body was wrapped in bandages. He stared blankly at Dian Wei, who was sleeping soundly. He probably hadn't figured out what was going on here, so he was confused. Then he saw Dian Wei suddenly burst into flames. Like a deserted place.

Jia Xu was naturally familiar with him and was talking to him from the side.

"What? Zhang Fei and Ma Chao are here too? And Lu Bu's guy?!"

Xu Chu widened his eyes, grabbed the tiger-headed knife stuck in the ground, and shouted angrily to find them, but Su Chen said: "Huhou, are you going to go there with this bandage on and make them laugh to death?" Stop.

Xu Chu clenched the handle of the knife and glared at Su Chen, but he vaguely saw that Su Chen's narrowed eyes looked exactly like Cao Cao, and he suddenly felt a lot more cordial.

As if he saw Cao Cao, he stammered: "Lord...Lord?"

"Huhou, let's rest for a while and wait until we finish fighting Xirong. You guard the car first and don't let anyone else get even half a step closer."

Su Chen threw the Xia Wang Sword to Wu Zixun, his tone and expression were very similar to Cao Cao.His treatment of tiger idiot Xu Chu is different from others. If he talks to death, he may really die.

Of course, this was also an interesting time when Cao Cao told Su Chen.

"Hey!" Xu Chu raised the knife, and under Jia Xu's confused eyes, he turned back and stood next to the chariot. It took him a while to realize, "Hey, that's not right, why should I listen..."

Su Chen turned around and said, "Huh?" Facing Su Chen's 'cao thief' gaze, Xu Chu's face suddenly broke out into a silly smile. He held the knife in his arms, puffed out his bulging belly, and glanced around at the passing people with a solemn expression. Soldier.

There was a soldier from Youyan escorting a man over there. His armor was much better than that of ordinary herdsmen, and there was a fox tail on the back of his leather helmet.

From what I knew about Xirong during this period, the captives captured should be important people in the royal court.

"Your Majesty, this person can speak Yan dialect."

While Su Chen asked Wu Zixun to take off his cloak, he took some water and poured it on his breastplate to wash away the blood: "Tell me, who is leading the army?"

"Back...back to King Xia of the Yan Kingdom..." The big man in the Yan Kingdom spoke fluently. He knelt on the ground with his forehead touching the ground: "It's Tuoba Yu, the first warrior in the grassland."

Xu Chu looked back from there, snorted coldly, and turned back again.

"Why did you set up an ambush in the central grassland so early?"

Su Chen rinsed his hands, took the water bag and took a sip: "Telling the truth is the only way to survive. Think carefully before speaking."

"Back to your Majesty, Khan Luuta wants to annex the Corpse Division."

"Why not last year, or next year, but exactly this time?"

"Because..." The leader of the Luoting tribe hesitated, and Wu Zixun, who was standing beside him, went over and kicked the opponent's calf: "Say!" Then, he jumped on the ground holding his toes, grinning in pain.

Seeing this, the big man had to say quickly: "I heard from the Khan... He wants something from the king, which seems to be able to live forever... to rejuvenate his youth. So he wants to annex the central and eastern grasslands, integrate his troops and horses, and attack the Yan Kingdom .Originally, the tribal warriors on this expedition would focus on attacking the Corpse Palace, but when they heard that the Yan army was advancing into the central grassland, Luoting Khan asked Tuoba Yuan to divide his troops to ambush them."

Su Chen closed his eyes and listened quietly to all the other party's words. Most of them were the same as what Jia Xu had guessed, but the only reason was the rumor of the secret technique of immortality.

The rumors about Xiao Mochuo finally came to light.

This guy has been fleeing to the west. After entering the Liang Kingdom, he hid somewhere. It is really difficult to find such a person in other countries.

I don’t know how many cats and dogs will pop up in the future, overtly or covertly, to come to him to ask for the immortality spell.

If he could take it out, it would be good to recruit people under his command, but where does he really have this thing?
Su Chen leaned against the chariot and looked over there where the bodies of the fallen soldiers were still being buried. His eyes half closed for a moment and he raised his fingers.

"Gu will give you a way to survive. Go back and tell Luotang Ba Gui that I do have the secret of immortality here, which can make the elderly become younger day by day. If he wants it, Gu can give it to him, but there are conditions. I regard Gu as the khan of this grassland and serve the Yan Kingdom as the master. The last one..."

Su Chen withdrew his gaze and looked at the approaching Dangdang household of the Luoting tribe.

"The last condition is that Khan Luotibugui Khan come to see me in person and wait for him alone in the King's Court of Corpse Chaser."

After speaking, he waved his hand and asked the other party to leave.

"Zhongshu Ling, your guess is correct, but you are here for the secret of immortality."

"It is common for people in the world to believe in immortality. Even Emperors of Qin and Han Wu, who were so talented and strategist, could not help but seek immortality."

"go!"

Su Chen got on the chariot and asked the soldiers to find a war horse to increase the number of horses pulling the chariot to six. "Right now, the opponent should have another army of soldiers and horses, waiting to attack the Palace of the Corpse Chaser."

He looked at the sun as it passed through midday.

"I don't know if the champions and Wenhou have met each other at this time."

(End of this chapter)