Kyushu·Dendrobium Lady
Chapter 2 The time is like a breeze
Chapter 2 The time is like a breeze
In the painting, the young man in military uniform is carrying a longbow, with one hand lightly on his waist and wearing a purple gold chi kiss ring knife, and together with everyone else guards the young man in royal attire in the middle - it can't be wrong, the gentle and gentle face of the young man in military uniform , the half-inch-long old knife mark slightly picked up, still contains a specious smile.
The army crossed the sea from Quanming to Qicheng, the port of Hanzhou, and then went to Shuanghuancheng. More than 300 years ago, when Shuanghuan City was still called Beidu, merchants from the north of Leizhou sold fire silk here and hired craftsmen from Donglu with a lot of money. Silk weaving tapestry is heavy brocade.It is said that even in the extreme north of Shangzhou, where the iron armor is covered with ice, the one-collar single shirt made of brocade cannot be attacked by frost.Gradually, the land was named after things, and the territory of the conquered dynasty gradually moved northward. After the barbarians retreated northward, the Donglu people simply changed the name of the northern capital to Shuanghuancheng and became the capital of the Hanzhou territory.
Since the frost is still gradually moving westward, the scenery is quite different from that of the Eastern Continent.Wherever there is a source of water along the way, there are lush meadows, cattle and sheep everywhere, and rich city walls, except for the Gobi desert.The climate in the north is cold and harsh. Every winter, the barbarian Huku tribe migrates south across the Piluo Mountain Valley to seize the pastures and livestock. Therefore, every five years in the autumn of changing defenses, [-] veterans and [-] new recruits in the camp Stationed at Huangquan Pass, and another [-] veterans will be sent back to Donglu in the spring.
When the first emperor was in power, the tyrant Chu Fengyi took advantage of the change of defense in autumn and winter and the weak defense of the imperial capital to raise troops to stand on his own.Xu Wang Chu Zhongxu, who was only 17 years old at the time, led the Kinki Camp to fight hard for eight years with the soldiers and horses of the Qin kings from all walks of life.During the change of defense of the three major battalions this autumn, in addition to the 13 people prescribed by each battalion, an additional 3 new recruits were sent respectively, and the military pay and corvee suddenly became heavy.The DPRK and China somewhat criticized this, because the 9 newly recruited horses were originally intended to enrich the Konoe Habayashi and the 20 Kinki Battalion.Once the military strength of the capital is weakened, the capital will be in danger invisibly.Most of the people who stood up to oppose it were old ministers. The rebellion of the tyrant Chu Fengyi 21 years ago really left too painful a mark in their memory.
"Strange..." Zhang Chengqian narrowed his eyes slightly against the wind mixed with yellow sand.
Haishi caught up from behind and asked, "What's wrong?"
"We walk from the southeast to the west. Every October before the heavy snow closes the mountains, we can meet some Leizhou merchants who are not afraid of death, rushing to transport safflower, jibei and musk into Kaman. It is said that there are 12 people in Huangquanguan this year. The Ku people would not choose this time to gnaw hard bones, the road in Hanzhou should be safer." As he spoke, the heroic Bian Jiang turned his eyes to his hand holding the bridle, muttering, as if he was Explaining to Haishi, it seemed to be talking to himself: "But this road is surprisingly quiet. There are no Nanbi people, Zhuchari people, or Nihualuo people. Damn, it's really cold."
"You mean the Huku people have reached Huangquan Pass..." Haishi looked northwest.The Gobi is magnanimous and desolate, but the gloomy sky is ambushing from all sides, unpredictable.
"If they attack Huangquanguan, we should have news when we return from the frost. But at this time, all the season springs in the Gobi Desert should dry up. Except for the water plants along the river in Piluoshan Valley, other places are bare Yes, it is dangerous and there is no way out. If they don't break through Huangquan Pass, where else can they go?"
The wind carried a white shadow across Haishi's eyes and landed on the back of her hand. When she looked closely again, the feathery thing turned into a drop of cold and turbid water.She was taken aback, and looked up at the sky. The lead-like clouds were turbulent, sporadically sprinkling a little bit of dull white, and the wind suddenly became dry and cold.
It was the end of September and it was snowing.
The snowflakes gradually thickened, and after only a moment, it was impossible to see the road ahead several miles away.For a moment, there was a slight commotion in the long queue. Haishi was about to order Qianqi from each team to appease the soldiers under his command, but Zhang Chengqian pinched his shoulder unexpectedly.
"Glacier, they came in from the glacier!"
"What glacier? Fushan glacier? It's impossible to pass there!" Hai Shi frowned in pain.
"In the past few years, the weather has been unnaturally warm, and the glaciers have somewhat melted, and the several-foot-deep chasms between the ice tongue and the rocks have gradually been filled with water and sand, and it will be much smoother when it freezes again in winter. But in this case , the glacier is prone to slide and collapse, and it is impossible to walk at all. If the vibration is too strong, it will also trigger an avalanche on the mountain. Therefore, we only left less than [-] people in Shuijingtun in front of the Fushan glacier. It’s snowing, on the Huku people’s side, I’m afraid it’s September, no, the pastures were covered by snow at the end of August!” Snow fell on Zhang Chengqian’s mustache, and when he turned his head suddenly, the flakes of snow trembled and fell: "The glaciers have been frozen solid in such a cold weather once in decades. Apart from taking Piluoshan Valley to Huangquanguan, this glacier is the best road. In addition, the terrain is rugged and easy to cover. Centaur, if I were from Huku, I would rather go to the glacier!"
"They can't bring much food and grass, so they must be going to plunder?" Haishi asked anxiously.
Zhang Chengqian clenched his teeth, with strong muscles protruding from his cheeks: "Yes, Shuijingtun is 2000 miles away from the glacier. There are less than 550 troops stationed there, and there are only more than 210 people in the settlement. There are business travelers traveling from east to west. They are all replenished there. Now we are 12 miles away from Huangquan Pass and [-] miles away from Shuijingtun, and we are still detaining [-] winter rations. We cannot move rashly. This Shuijingtun is probably already..."
"Brother Zhang, you go back to the camp with food, let me go to Shuijingtun!" Haishi said suddenly.
Zhang Chengqian couldn't help but looked at this young colleague carefully.He had heard that Fang Haishi, the new general, was a candidate for the new martial arts examination, and Zhang Chengqian only saw him twice before leaving Beijing.That time under Chengji's sect, Fang Haishi was wearing a grand ceremony court dress. He was a handsome young man with a golden complexion and beautiful eyebrows like a woman. He also heard that he was the adopted son of a powerful eunuch. Zhang Chengqian felt disheartened when he saw it.Young Master Guan has seen a lot, none of them are promising, and he no longer has any hope, just begging him not to die at the border to teach them how to do it, that's fine.But along the way, he felt that this young man was persevering, he could endure all kinds of hardships, as if he had borrowed someone else's body to revive his soul, and he didn't spare himself. Hearing what Haishi said now, he became even more worried.
"This is your first battle, and there is no one to lead you, this..."
"Brother Zhang, the winter grain for 12 people falls on you, of course we can't be distracted, but this Shuijingtun, we can't do nothing. Otherwise, if the news spreads, who will dare to come to cultivate it in the future?"
Zhang Chengqian knew that what he said was reasonable, but he was afraid that he was a newborn calf who didn't know the depth of the battlefield, so he had to call a few experienced thousand cavalry, and assigned eight thousand elite soldiers to him to watch this brave man and horse hunting in the snowstorm. , hurriedly headed towards Shuijingtun.Zhang Chengqian wiped off the snow powder from his mustache, turned around, looked at the brigade behind him, and shouted: "What are you doing standing there? Hurry up! We must arrive at the base camp before dark tomorrow!"
In the evening of the next day, a brigade of 2000 people arrived at Huangquan Camp at the foot of Piluo Mountain with food and grass for the winter.After deliberation, it was decided to order two five thousand cavalry to lead their troops to rescue Shuijingtun.At night, people shouted horses on the Southwest Road, Zhang Chengqian jumped out of the tent, and saw that the sky was completely dark, and the road was winding with bright pines. The leading boy was covered with blood, and his face was as pale as death. running.
"How is it?" Zhang Chengqian saw that Haishi staggered when he got off his horse, so he hurriedly gave him a hand.
Haishi swallowed his saliva, opened his dry lips and said, "It's too late, most of the people in Shuijingtun... are gone."
The rough man clenched his teeth, and asked after a while, "Where are the Huku people?"
The young man's face reflected the light and shadow of flames, and his eyes were scorching: "Out of the 3000 and [-] Huku people, [-] escaped, and the rest refused to surrender, leaving around [-] alive with difficulty. Now they are rushing to the exit of the glacier. Digging trenches, insufficient defense, thinking about returning to ask for some men, just happened to meet Lu Qianqi and Chen Qianqi on the way, please go to Shuijingtun for reinforcements first, I will report a letter when I come back."
"It's enough to have Lu Qianqi and Chen Qianqi." A man in a blue cloak, who had stood behind them for an unknown amount of time, said at this moment, "You don't have to go to Shuijingtun, just stay in the camp .When the trenches are dug, the road to the glacier will be blocked, and there will be fewer people left. I’m afraid they will also make a fuss, and it’s time to use people to close it.”
Zhang Chengqian bowed and bowed: "General Tang."
Haishi knew that this must be the owner of Huangquan camp who dried the soup, and followed suit like a ritual.Tang Gan was in his thirties and had only been stationed at Huangquan Pass for six years, but his reputation spread far and wide, he was a very strong man.Huku has been disturbed for many years, and most of the frontier residents have hatreds such as the killing of men, the humiliation of wives and daughters, and the kidnapping of livestock.Therefore, every time Huku spies were captured, Tang Gan would throw the spies to the villagers for disposal, and when the captives were tortured to death, he would order the soldiers to hang these miserable corpses on the pass.When the Huku people invade again, these villagers have no room to maneuver, and they must fight desperately.Unexpectedly, such powerful characters turned out to be only of medium stature, with an elegant complexion, not like the commander of an army, but more like a staff adviser.
Tang Ganzi nodded, and said, "Tell the boss to arrange dinner for the people who came back from Shuijingtun. General Fang Shen will join us tonight."
Shuijingtun lost nearly [-] defenders, Tang Ganzi and several generals were not at ease, so the meal in the camp was extremely quiet.The food is not any special delicacy, the same as the soldiers, it is coarse corn, beef and mutton, but it is cooked more carefully.The soldiers brought out a huge plate, which was the roast lamb common to the people on the frontier. They pulled out their knives and cut off large pieces. Each of them gave a portion, and there were tiny oil bubbles, and each chopped up the lamb with the knife .Haishi pulled out his saber and cut one corner, the mutton was tender red, and blood gushed out immediately, it was like the feeling of the blade cutting the flesh and blood of Huku people.She couldn't help but turn pale, with nausea in her chest.
Zhang Chengqian turned his head to look at the young colleague beside him, and asked with concern: "What, are you uncomfortable?"
Haishi forced a smile, unwilling to be taken lightly by others, and did not explain.
Tang Gan said to himself: "General Fang Shen is young, and the battle is so horrific. It is inevitable to feel sick for a while. Back then, everyone had this virtue. It will be fine after a long time. Just afraid of being offended by resentment, you might as well go to the ancestral hall to pay homage." bye."
Zhang Chengqian patted his head suddenly: "Neglected, I should have taken you to the military temple earlier."
The so-called military temple is just a room on the west side of the commander's barracks, with a long burning lamp lit, and a scroll of paintings after the dim light.Although the color of the paper is not fresh, it has been preserved extremely neatly.
Zhang Chengqian taught Haishi to light three sticks of incense, bowed and knelt down, and went forward to insert the stick of incense into the incense burner in front of the painting scroll.When Haishi raised his head, he was facing a pair of beautiful narrow Danfeng eyes, with a concentrated divine light, which seemed to have bottomless depth.Her hands trembled, and the incense ash and sparks fell off, and the knife wound on the back of her hand was a little red.Take a closer look, the young man in military uniform in the painting is carrying a longbow, with one hand lightly pressing his waist and wearing a purple gold chi kiss ring knife, and guarding the young man in royal attire in the middle with all the people—you can’t go wrong, the young man in military uniform is gentle and gentle On his face, the half-inch-long old knife mark that was slightly raised, still contained a specious smile.
"This is, this is..." she muttered to herself.
Zhang Chengqian nodded and said: "That's right, these are the six generals who followed the emperor to fight rebellion during the eight years from the Chengji Gate Rebellion to the Hongyaoyuan War when the emperor was still King Xu. Seraph."
Tang Ganzi stared at the seven spirited people on the scroll, and counted: "Gu Dacheng, he was originally a giant bandit in Qi County; Born as a maidservant; Su Ming, the second son of the famous general Su Jingfei; Amolan, whose life experience is unknown, crossed the sea and fled from the Kingdom of Chenla. One of the two people in the middle is King Xu—the emperor who is now my great conquest , Di Xu. And this one," Tang Ganzi moved his finger to the young man in uniform, and sighed inaudibly, "is the late Qing Haigong's heir, Fang Jianming."
In the depths of Haishi's voice, there was a slight tremor: "But, aren't all the six-winged generals who suppressed the rebellion dead?"
"That's right... Guo Zhixing's mount frantically threw him off and broke his neck; Ju Qiqiu was nearly [-] years pregnant and died of dystocia. Half a year later, a prisoner on death row reported that Amolan He had always been at odds with Guo Zhixing, so he sent people to put thorns, a specialty of Chenla, between the saddle and the horse's back, and coated the stirrups with shellac, and murdered Guo Zhixing. Amolan fled and died in the chaos on the way Arrow. Fang Jianming died suddenly of a sudden illness."
These words, every sentence has never exceeded their duty, but there is an extremely dangerous atmosphere hidden.A trace of cold air, following Tang Gan's indifferent voice, penetrated into Haishi's spine, coiling and deepening, as if to freeze her bone marrow.
No, Haishi clearly knew it was not.Seraph, at least one is still alive.However, why did Fang Jianming, one of the six-winged generals who should have died of a sudden illness, hide his name and live in the inner palace, and became Feng Ting's chief manager Fang Zhu?And what made the young general, who was on the battlefield more than ten years ago, lose his edge, and finally become the gentle and peaceful man in green shirt who raised her for ten years?
"Then, Gu Dacheng indulged his subordinates in looting and killed them for the folk rangers; Su Ming went to Shangzhou as an envoy, but before he left the country, he encountered a yellow sandstorm in the southwest of Hanzhou, and in the desert between Juzi and Dumulan In less than five years since the founding of the country, there is not even one of the six-winged generals left. Really, the fate is unpredictable." The last sentence, like a tangible object, slipped coldly across the sea city skin.
Haishi turned back, looked at the commander of Huangquanying hiding in the dim shadows, and recalled what Fang Zhu had said to her against the bright apocalyptic night before the expedition.As always, the calm, very ordinary tone seemed to just ask her to close the window for him, or to grind ink: "I want you to protect Tang Ganzi, just like you protect me. But once I send you a letter from Beijing, no matter what the content is , kill him as soon as possible.”
So, the handsome new general nodded, and casually said to the coach: "The destiny is unpredictable, isn't it?"
The three seasons of spring, summer and autumn in Huangquanguan are extremely short, with distinct changes, but the winter is long and endless.Once the snow came up, it couldn't be stopped, and the snow cover on the top of the mountain gradually stretched towards the blue mountainside. From a distance, it looked like white flowers blooming in a hurry on the mountain range.This winter has come quickly and harshly, so it can be seen that the snowmelt in spring will be particularly late. "This year's Migratory Birds in the Misty Sea may not pass through until April or May," Zhang Chengqian said.Migratory birds come and go every spring and autumn, and they always pass through Huangquan Pass.
At that time, on the way from Shuanghuan to Huangquan Pass, Zhang Chengqian pointed out Ming Menghai to Haishi.The people in the eastern land call it the Misty Sea, but because it is foggy at night and does not appear in the dark, and the border people call it "sea" regardless of fresh water or salt water lakes, so they gave it a convenient name.Nihualuo merchants called this lake Cuo Mubo, "Cuo'e" means lake and sea, and "Mubo" means green and blue.The Huku people call it "Kukunuoer", which means the blue sea.
In the Gobi wilderness, it’s not uncommon to see dead horses run over the mountains, but the misty sea seems to be only three or five miles away. If you really want to get close, you may have to run for a long time.Haishi said lightly: "I don't like water." He didn't go.It's just that far away in the smoke and dust, I saw a dark gray pool of water, and I don't know if it is frozen.Since the age of seven, he has never seen the sea again.No matter how vast and vast the water in the north is, it always has a limit, but the sea does not.The endless salty, bitter and clear water weighed heavily on the memory in her chest, causing her to often wake up from nightmares in the middle of the night, and taste the dense cold sweat on her lips, which is the taste of sea water.
According to legend, after crossing Mount Piluo, 19 miles to the west, deep in the permafrost plain of Shangzhou, farther north than the Sea of Bingyan, at the foot of Mount Tianchi, there is a land that is even more norther than the Sea of Misty Sea. The large lake, called Bokar Sea, is where migratory birds gather in summer and where dragon gods live in seclusion.Legend has it that in the previous dynasty, civilians in Lanzhou were swept away by a hurricane and brought to Bokar Sea.The man was only [-] years old when he was swept away, and he was nearly [-] years old when he escaped. All the fingers on his hands were frozen off, and only one or two joints remained, like a doll that had been dismantled. hand.However, in the imagination of Donglu people, the so-called extreme north is just Huangquan Pass.
When the Piluo Mountains reached Huangquanguan, they suddenly staggered into two parts, namely the East Piluo Mountains and the West Piluo Mountains.The West Piluo Mountains are located slightly north, and there is an ice-free spring on the southern foot, from which the Piluo River originates, flows to the south, and finally flows into the Misty Sea.As a result, a zigzag-shaped narrow river valley was washed out between the overlapping of two towering snow peaks.From the source of the unfrozen spring to the north, there is a difficult and dangerous valley leading directly to Hongyaoyuan outside the mountain pass. This is the only road that can communicate from north to south on the nearly [-]-mile Piluo Mountains.Although it is a river valley and a valley, it is still three hundred feet higher than the flat land. If you have a familiar guide, you can cross it in a day and night.When the Pira River reached the valley of the East Pira Mountains in the south, it changed its course and dived into the ground, and gushed out of the ground at the foot of the mountain, leaving only a [-]-mile-long dry river channel washed out tens of millions of years ago.Huangquan Pass is located on this section of dry river, which strangles this main road and becomes a pass that is difficult to attack in the northwest.After passing the Piluo Mountains, Hanzhou is a flat river. After crossing south by boat, there are few natural barriers for more than [-] miles in the direction of the imperial capital.Once Huangquan Pass is lost, Northwest Hanzhou will open its doors wide, and the counties in Donglu will be in danger.
Haishi stood in front of the camp at the foot of the mountain, looking up.Winding upwards along the river valley, dozens of pearl-like fires are burning in the night.According to Zhang Chengqian, [-] soldiers are on standby at the pass every three hours, and there are a few watchposts distributed on the northern passage.
"If the Huku people encounter a year with plenty of water and grass, they will not move a step south with a whip. However, if there is a drought, a freeze, or a plague in the livestock, they... are like locusts. Here we come." Zhang Chengqian shook his head.
Several children in ragged clothes ran past Haishi laughing and fighting, scratching and scratching around the thigh of the sentry in the camp.The sentinel was all smiles, yelling at the dirty children, and giving each of them a light kick.Haishi was very surprised to hear those children speak an unfamiliar barbarian language: "Where did the little barbarians come from in the barracks in the middle of the night?"
Zhang Chengqian just shook his head: "Those black-haired and black-eyed people are all Kamanans. They said that they fled to us because of the snowstorm this year, suffering from hunger and cold. They have already arrived several times in the past few days."
"Is it just kept in the barracks like this?"
"Where is it, the snow is so deep now, I have to keep them for now, and when there are thousands of people, send them to Shuijingtun together to teach them how to make a living."
While talking, there was a sound of shouting, and someone on the hill was waving a torch.Zhang Chengqian squinted his eyes and took a look: "Just as we were talking, another group came. Look at the torches, one up first, those who come are not enemies, and the six horizontal ones behind, there are 600 people who come."
Haishi frowned and slowed down, staring intently at the Piluo River that bypassed the camp.The gang leader led the help cooks to dig the ice surface by the river, and put down the bucket to draw water. At this time, there was a commotion for some reason.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Chengqian noticed that Haishi hadn't followed, and turned around to see him squatting next to the helpers.
His young colleague hurried up and showed him the wet thing in the palm of his left hand.It was a half wooden sign, which had been rubbed smooth and black due to long-term use. It was originally engraved with characters, but now it can only be distinguished as half of the word "Spring".
"Brother Zhang, this is..."
Zhang Chengqian's face changed suddenly: "This is the badge of the person who guards the spring on duty!"
"On the way to Guanshang, you must pass the Budong Spring, right?"
"That's... the only way to go." Zhang Chengqian turned his head and ordered to the gatekeepers: "Use fire as a sign, and tell the higher-ups not to open the gates and let people go."
"I'll take a few people up first!" Haishi said and turned around and ran towards his tent.
"Wait!" Zhang Chengqian called out to Haishi, "You bring some fast and experienced ones, first go to the hanging tower and wait, bring more arrows."
"Yes!" Haishi had already run away, and his silver-like voice penetrated the night.
Don't just die like this.Zhang Chengqian thought silently while running towards the Chinese army.
While running, Haishi gently wiped his right hand dry on the lapel of his clothes, the pearly white light in his palm gradually faded and finally disappeared.
Haishi and the others rushed all the way, and arrived at the gate in less than half an hour.The rotating general, Fu Yi, is a black, thin, capable man in his forties.Hearing Haishi's hasty report of the abnormal situation, Fu Yi's eyebrows became tighter and tighter, and he remained silent.
"Master Fu?" Haishi frowned slightly, and a pair of bright clear water eyes stared at Fu Yi from under the helmet.
"Lord Fang, please look over there." As Fu Yi said, some soldiers let them to the arrow's eye.
Haishi peered down through the palm-sized arrow eye, and couldn't help but take a light breath.
Huangquanguan is built in the shape of a mountain, with a very narrow facade but a very steep one, just like a door on the path of "Zhi".After leaving the northern part of the Guan, Kaman is in the east and Huku is in the west. The border between the two countries cannot be discerned as far as the eye can see.This pass was originally built for trade, and the gate is a little wider, which only allows two horses to walk side by side.
The establishment of the Huku state was only a matter of more than three hundred years ago, during the reign of the two former emperors, Dizhuang and Diwu.During the Duan Dynasty, the climate in the north of Tongyun Mountain near the border of Ningzhou in Hanzhou became worse. A group of barbarians who called themselves Huku were forced to leave their homeland where they had lived for generations.In the legend of Huku, their tribe was born of Tianma, and Tianma is the daughter of dragon. "Huku" means "dragon grandson" in the barbarian language.The other tribes on the steppe called them "Bublo" contemptuously, the mongrel foals.Because the Huku people are taller than ordinary barbarians, and they are blond and blue-eyed, people say that they are bastards who have mixed blood with the Kuafu tribe and the Yu tribe many times respectively, and they cannot even be regarded as a branch of the barbarians.However, this wandering tribe grew up silently like a lone wolf.400 years after they left their homeland, Huku under the leadership of King Balan has become one of the few powerful tribes on the grassland.Some people say that the blood of Pasur's family's bronze and Gu Xuan's blood flowed in the veins of King Balan. He came to this world to reap human lives, just like farmers in the Eastern Land reap rice.Of course, this is just a rumor after all. Qingyang's Pasur clan began to decline after the death of Zhaowu Gong Lu Guichen, and it declined to nowhere in the Duan Dynasty.In the era of King Balan, the territory of the Donglu Zheng Dynasty had advanced to the south of the Piluo Mountains.After the Huku Department swept Hanbei, swallowed the Youjin Department, and the Chun Branch, it continued to move southward and invaded Huangquan Pass several times.Since then, for the sake of ease of guarding, Huangquanguan has rebuilt the closing gate into a lifting gate that only allows one person to pass by with a horse.
But right now, on the narrow snow-covered passage, groups of turbid black shadows huddled together quietly and closely, and the team lined up all the way to the dark depths that were invisible in the distance.Occasionally, one or two faces in the crowd raised up, their faces were pale, and they glanced at the tower, as if they didn't have any hope, and then lowered themselves and were submerged in the shadows.
"Those people are real refugees from Kaman, with black hair and black eyes. The Huku people are golden-haired and blue-eyed. They are unique among the barbarians, and they can be distinguished at a glance. That's why they blackmailed the Kaman people as a shield." As Yi said, he stood up and picked up the helmet at hand.
Footsteps were heard on the stairs, and several school lieutenants came afterward, and passed on General Tang's order: "Open the gate and go north, push them out."
"Open the gate and go north..." Fu Yi's face was so dark that he couldn't easily see his expression, "When will the brigade arrive?"
"Master Huifu, the great king Qianqi and the little Wang Qianqi each lead 4000 people, and they will arrive in three quarters."
Fu Yi let out a long sigh, stretched out his hands and beat his lower back, his joints creaked: "If you haven't been to the Red Medicine Plant for 13 years, your bones are old."
A desolate little voice resounded repeatedly on the mountain wall, Haishi looked intently, at the bottom of the city tower, a small sheep's head protruded from the ripped felt robe of the black-eyed Kaman girl.
"Lord Fang, I heard that you are proficient in all kinds of martial arts, among which riding and archery are the most proficient. This year's martial arts high school is the best, and the riding and archery tests are overwhelming. The crowd applauded." Fu Yi took a few steps, Suddenly turned around.
"My lord Fu praises it, that is the humility of the same year." Hai Shi replied.
"Then, the Xuanlou will be handed over to Master Fang. Let some good shooters go with Master Fang."
"Yes." Haishi saluted, got up and ran out briskly.
Hanging Towers are not actually buildings, but a few natural caves on the mountain wall on the east side of the mountain two or three miles north of Huangquan Pass, which can only be reached from a steep gecko road in the pass, and they are condescending.It is said to be used as an archery tower, but in fact it has not been used for a long time since it was closed for a long time. There are arrows, rough felt, tung oil and a little grain and water accumulated in it, which is almost abandoned.
Haishi led twenty archers to climb up the hanging tower, then hid himself in the cave, holding his breath and waiting.In the valley to the south there were gradually small noises, and a group of horses and horses came out, all white-robed horses, about 150 of them galloped silently on the clear and shining snow.
"Good guy, you pulled half of the Qilin battalion out." The archer lying beside him wiped the bowstring with tallow, and said in a low voice, "Those Kamanans have no way out."
"What can we do?" The man who answered shook his head, "I'm afraid the Huku barbarians will be famished this winter, and I'm afraid they won't be able to close the gate once it is opened. Historically, military books only teach the use of fire ox formations, not They used living people as shields. In order to seize the food and grass of our camp, they did such wicked things. In the final analysis, we can’t be blamed.”
From the hanging tower, the shadows of the Huku cavalry quietly pulling their horses to the south can be vaguely seen, while the Qilin Battalion has already lined up in front of the pass. Afterwards, more than 7000 horses and Qilin Battalion will be separated by eight feet, and they will line up five along the narrow valley. In and out.Sandwiched between the front and rear two towering iron streams ready to go, the six hundred ragged Gamans just huddled together in silence.
"This year the barbarians in Huku are starving. Knowing that we have food in the pass, it's like a wolf smelling blood. Jinshuijingtun has been completely wiped out, and now even Huangquan Pass dares to attack—but if we detour three thousand miles from the west Come here to look for food, I'm afraid if you can't find food, you will all starve to death."
"Look at the battle, this time they are here to fight for their lives."
In the Heileng cave, Xuxu's human voice was entangled like countless invisible hands.Haishi suddenly felt that the silver chain mail on his chest was buckled too tightly, and he was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.
The Wutie gate of Huangquanguan is extremely thick and heavy, and the sixteen cooked copper hinges are all as thick as the mouth of a bowl, but they turn silently.
There was a slight commotion among the Kaman crowd, and the lamb from the girl's arms suddenly broke free, and the four slender little hooves stepped onto the snow with a crisp and soft sound.The whole body of the lamb is pure white, with a line of shiny black down from the forehead to the nose. It has a light body and black eyes. It was probably brought in the bosom by a lamb who was a breeding sheep when preparing to rebuild the pasture.The lamb took two steps forward curiously, looking at the white horse legs exposed behind the gate.The door closed higher and higher, and hundreds of pairs of silver greaves were dazzling in the snow light.
The lamb poked its tender neck and bleated.A gust of wind from the sky pierced through its young body, splashing a cluster of blood onto the white paper-like snow.From the city head and arrow holes of Huangquan Pass, crossbowmen shot arrows like locusts.A blood-stained hand reached out to the lamb, but was nailed into the snow by a howling arrow.
With a whistle, 150 cavalrymen from the Qilin Battalion rushed out like silver dragons, stepped over the messy slush and corpses, and rushed towards the first column of Huku cavalry who rushed towards them like a furious tide.The Huku people wield a ring knife in one hand and a shield in the other, with sharp cones protruding from the shield, which is flexible and powerful.During the reign of the two former emperors, Dizhuang and Diwu, the guards of Huangquan Gate suffered a lot from this.Later, Wukusi made a five-foot-five spear for Huangquanguan, which was about the same length as a short man, and it could be used freely on narrow mountain paths, and it was sharp and agile, and could directly attack the small gap between the Huku people's shield and knife .The Qilin Battalion came swiftly and fiercely, seeing snow powder flying in the distance, a silvery white line advancing northward, the white light passed by, and human corpses and horse corpses of Huku were piled up on the mountain road. Was crushed and trampled to death.The Huku people in the back shouted loudly, and the second formation came forward, and there was another whistle in the Qilin camp, and more than a hundred blood-stained five-foot-five spears pointed forward, rushed into the formation, and fought together.
The hanging building is located to the north of Guanmen, facing the backs of Huku vanguard soldiers, forming a pincer attack trend with the crossbows on the city.
Haishi knelt on one knee at the entrance of the hanging building, and took out a gold wrench finger inlaid with water-green glaze from his waist, examined it carefully, and put it on his thumb again.The finger ring was originally used by men, but she thought it was too big to wear it, so she wrapped it with green silk thread like an ordinary girl in a boudoir wraps her ring.
"Armor-piercing arrows." Haishi said, heh-heh the bowstring, and took out three kite-feathered armor-piercing arrows with one hand, sandwiched them between his four fingers. With his thumb, he opened a six-stone bow steadily, aiming at Hukudi. Back three times, "Let go."
The arrows fell like a swarm of locusts towards Huku's third formation.The Huku people did not expect to be attacked from their backs, and they crowded and trampled each other for a while, but they were caught by the front and rear formations and couldn't move.The second group of Huku people heard the commotion and pushing from behind, suspected that they had been ambushed, and panicked in their hearts, the two little leaders yelled sharply, reorganized their formation, and led the crowd to rush into the Qilin camp.The sergeants in front of the Qilin camp stabbed out five-foot-five spears overlappingly, twisted them into a line to block Huku's shield, and drew out narrow-bladed ring-handed knives one after another to slash.
"Shoot down the fifth formation, let's open the way for Qilin Battalion. Shoot three times in a row, and I won't stop, and no one will stop." The young general said in a low voice, and 21 six-stone bows soundlessly opened to a full circle. .
"put!"
The sound of the bowstring clanging was like the rapid rain breaking through the air, and the Huku people were trapped on the mountain road and could not escape. The third, fourth, and fifth formations at the southern end had been cut off from the northern main formation by the sharp arrow rain. The impact of the silver tide.The formation is getting thinner and thinner, but the rain of arrows still refuses to stop.
When Haishi yelled "Stop", there was only the last row of more than a hundred Huku people left, and they were immediately mowed down by the Qilin camp frontier like crops in late autumn.
Haishi's ears suddenly felt cold, and an archer beside him was covering his shoulders, and a Haidong Qingling feather arrow, which is used by Huku people, fell on the ground, which was obviously scratched by the arrow.
The road below the hanging building has long been covered by random arrows and corpses, and further north, it is invisible due to the orientation of the hanging building.She ventured out of the hole of the hanging building to look north, and saw that in the Huku people's main formation, several archers were shooting random arrows at the hanging building, and a dozen other archers were already arrayed in front, heading towards the Qilin who was advancing step by step. The battalion drew its bow.The Qilin Battalion came here for melee combat this time, without shield equipment, and it seemed that they would suffer heavy losses.
"You two, grab my leg." Haishi gritted his teeth, retracted his body, sat with his back to the hole, and said to the two archers nearby.But she herself bit three arrows in her mouth, held three more arrows between her fingers, held the bow in her left hand, and hung her upper body on the stone wall outside the cave, hanging upside down, and shot three arrows in a row at the archers in Huku's main formation. , all without false hair.During this time, she had seen a tall and strong archer in the formation, and the armor was more eye-catching. She thought it was the leader of the archer, so she took out the three arrows between her teeth, and shot at the man like a shooting star.The arrows used by Haishi are a bit particular. First, there are two armor-piercing arrows, followed by a blood-letting arrow, which is intended to pierce through the weak points of the armor connection, and then severely injure the enemy with the blood-letting arrow with grooves.As soon as she sat up, she heard a few clicks, and the arrows of the Huku people hit the stone wall one after another.Haishi looked back and saw the tall archer holding the three arrows gathered together on his throat, and pulled out with a loud shout.He couldn't see clearly in the snowy light from afar, but he saw the people swarming up beside him took two steps back and wiped their faces, thinking they were sprayed with blood all over their faces.
Haishi took advantage of the chaos and hung upside down again, but he didn't care about the random arrows flying horizontally, and the archers in the Huku formation fell one after another in response.
"Lord Fang!" the soldier on the hanging tower shouted, his voice was broken with panic.
As soon as she turned her gaze, an arrow was coming through the air, and it was in front of her eyes in an instant, there was no way to avoid it, and even the blood groove buried in the three-edged arrowhead could be clearly seen.
She stubbornly opened a pair of bright eyes.
The archers on the hanging tower looked down from above, they could only see Hai Shi Yiya's sharp chin upside down, but the arrow was firmly nailed to her upside down face, the shaft of the arrow hummed and trembled endlessly.
At this time, the forward of the Qilin Battalion had crashed into the Huku main formation, and the infantry rushed out, but Zhang Kekuan's passageway was full of people and horses wriggling together.But the young man shooting arrows in the formation was still standing on the saddle with a long body on the stirrup, looked up the hanging tower, and then got off the horse, and someone immediately carried the body of the archer leader who died earlier.The young man stretched out his hand to take off the dead man's battle helmet, grabbed a strand of blond hair from the dead man, drew out his saber and chopped off the head, brought the head to his eyes, and kissed it again and again, but he heard the shouts from his relatives, and when he looked up, he saw a long arrow. The shot came, and his face changed suddenly.At this very moment, a man dressed in a white robe hurriedly stood in front of the young man, and stretched out his hand as if desperate to block.Haidong Qingling's long arrowhead brushed against his palm, and immediately fell to the ground with a sound of gold and stone.There was a small commotion in the formation of the Huku people, but the man in white robe was not injured at all, he took a step back indifferently, and stood by the side of the young horse.The young man looked up and saw that the long arrow on the face of the Dazheng archer hanging upside down on the cliff had disappeared, and when he looked closely at the arrow he blocked just now, it was the one he had shot earlier.It is thought that the archer of Dazheng bit the incoming arrow with his teeth, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness and shot back.
A smile appeared on the blood-stained lips of the Huku youth, and he hooked his fingers contemptuously towards the cliff. Immediately, he hung his head on the back of the saddle, ordered the soldiers to cover him, steered his horse and led the team to turn around, and disappeared at the bend of the northern mountain road.
Hai Shi licked his front teeth, spat out a mouthful of blood, and said, "This man is weird, he seems to have used some kind of secret technique. Let's hurry up and catch up."
"Fang, Master Fang..." A young archer who was about the same age as Hai Shi spoke intermittently, his lips trembling.
"What?" Haishi responded with his horn bow on his back.
"The Huku people set up a black flag, the black flag of the king's death... I heard that they didn't bury their bodies, and threw their bodies everywhere for hyenas and vultures to eat. Only the heads of their tribes who died on the battlefield were sent back. It was buried together with the body made of gold..." The little archer couldn't help grinning, his pale and skinned lips broke free from bloody cuts.
"Lord Fang, you shot a king, a king!"
The Huku people didn't seem to like fighting, they attacked with great fanfare, but they retreated as quickly as the tide.Haishi dashed down from the hanging building, grabbed a horse, and chased northward.I was caught in the brigade and chased for more than 32 miles. The road in front of me was exhausted. I had to go back to the stream and waded up, turned over the foot of Dongpiluo Mountain, climbed up Xipiluo Mountain, and passed a full [-] miles of valleys to reach Biluo Mountain. The source of the Luo River is not frozen spring.From the source of the spring to the north, there is a mountain trail.Near noon the next day, Haishi finally caught up with Fu Yibu, who was leading the chase.Although the Huku people retreated quickly, they couldn't get rid of the Fuyi Department for a while, so they had to hold it leisurely.
"Master Fang has good eyesight. Huku people never use ceremonial guards. No one can tell that Zuo Putun king is in the crowd." Fu Yi said slowly, "This Zuo Putun king was brave and aggressive and attacked the one in Shuijingtun." The 3000 men were also his subordinates. It was originally said that they should be the vanguard to level the road, and the army would arrive shortly thereafter. Unexpectedly, he turned around and killed Huangquan Pass, but threw the 3000 men who had been kept in the dark at Shuijingtun as a feint attack. Now he Dead, the new Zuo Putun king is the old king's half-brother, and the spies said that they were not very close, so they immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops."
In the Huku formation, the original blue flags were no longer visible, and what was flying at the beginning of each team was full-width ramie cloth in onyx black.
"That is the new King Zuo Putun." Fu Yi pointed to a young man who was heavily guarded at the end of the Huku team.The figure of the young man was covered by the fluttering mourning flags, so he couldn't see carefully, what stood out was a human head, with a whole strand of blond hair hanging behind the saddle, swaying back and forth with the pace of the dark cloud riding on the snow.
Haishi frowned slightly, rode his horse and took two quick steps.At this time, the Huku people had already reached the exit of the mountain valley, and they could faintly see the vast extreme northern snowfield below. Just after turning around the tuyere, the huge wind swept the snow and sand, and the funeral flag was raised into the sky with a slap.At that moment, the man turned his face slightly, revealing a tall and straight silhouette.Haishi seemed to have been stuffed with a handful of snow in his chest, and he was startled.That was what she had seen for ten years, and there was no way she could have mistaken it.
"Zhuying—" she blurted out.
The man seemed to have heard Haishi's voice, turned his head, and with a provocative smile, hooked his fingers again.High nose, deep eyes, thick eyebrows, the same face and figure as Zhuo Ying, except for a pair of bright blue eyes.The blue-eyed young man took off his helmet, let loose his glorious blond hair, and loudly gave orders in barbarian language.The Huku people agreed in unison, and suddenly they all whipped their horses and moved down the mountain quickly.The teams that rushed out of the valley first lined up left and right on the snow field, strangled the valley as a cover, and the rest went straight to the north without hesitation. After entering the team, thousands of people raised snow and dust, and disappeared into the northern sky very quickly.
"That's Hongyaoyuan." Fu Yi reined in his horse, drew a circle in the air with the handle of his whip, and framed the snowfield north of the mountain valley inside.
The place where Hongyaoyuan is covered with snow in winter and desolate in summer has never opened a single flower of Hongyao, so the name comes from the Empress of Hongyao.Hong Yao was originally a daughter of the clan, and also the half-sister of Chu Fengyi, the tyrant king who raised troops and rebelled. 32 years ago, Chu Fengyi's army was defeated and fled to the north. After passing through Huangquan Pass and entering the territory of Huku, Emperor Ji of Hongyao sent troops to meet him. The army was completely destroyed, and the Huku army was defeated.Among the six-winged generals, Su Ming beheaded Chu Fengyi, while Hongyao Emperor Ji was trampled to death by the rebellious army.After this battle, the snow, mud, and flesh in the 14-mile field were mixed with red and black. The next year, when the weather was unusually warm, thin spring grass was born on the red medicine field, which was not eaten by livestock. The old man called it carrion grass. Yes it is.
The current situation in that year was like a majestic and ruthless raging torrent. According to the official historian's pen, a small wave splashed quietly, and it cost tens of thousands of lives.
"Every Ching Ming Festival, the twenty-mile red medicine field is full of women and children offering sacrifices." Fu Yi paused, and said, "It's been 14 years, and the women have grown old by sight, and the children have grown old by sight. This The world should calm down."
When they returned to the camp, there was no running Kaman boy in sight.That night, the Kamanans in the camp hadn't seen their compatriots enter the pass for a long time, and then they noticed that the army was going up the mountain, and there was a commotion, and finally all died.However, even if there is no riot, they have no way out.
"We can't let them go out and spread the word, saying that we will do nothing." Fu Yi's face was dark, and he still couldn't see the slightest expression.
(End of this chapter)
In the painting, the young man in military uniform is carrying a longbow, with one hand lightly on his waist and wearing a purple gold chi kiss ring knife, and together with everyone else guards the young man in royal attire in the middle - it can't be wrong, the gentle and gentle face of the young man in military uniform , the half-inch-long old knife mark slightly picked up, still contains a specious smile.
The army crossed the sea from Quanming to Qicheng, the port of Hanzhou, and then went to Shuanghuancheng. More than 300 years ago, when Shuanghuan City was still called Beidu, merchants from the north of Leizhou sold fire silk here and hired craftsmen from Donglu with a lot of money. Silk weaving tapestry is heavy brocade.It is said that even in the extreme north of Shangzhou, where the iron armor is covered with ice, the one-collar single shirt made of brocade cannot be attacked by frost.Gradually, the land was named after things, and the territory of the conquered dynasty gradually moved northward. After the barbarians retreated northward, the Donglu people simply changed the name of the northern capital to Shuanghuancheng and became the capital of the Hanzhou territory.
Since the frost is still gradually moving westward, the scenery is quite different from that of the Eastern Continent.Wherever there is a source of water along the way, there are lush meadows, cattle and sheep everywhere, and rich city walls, except for the Gobi desert.The climate in the north is cold and harsh. Every winter, the barbarian Huku tribe migrates south across the Piluo Mountain Valley to seize the pastures and livestock. Therefore, every five years in the autumn of changing defenses, [-] veterans and [-] new recruits in the camp Stationed at Huangquan Pass, and another [-] veterans will be sent back to Donglu in the spring.
When the first emperor was in power, the tyrant Chu Fengyi took advantage of the change of defense in autumn and winter and the weak defense of the imperial capital to raise troops to stand on his own.Xu Wang Chu Zhongxu, who was only 17 years old at the time, led the Kinki Camp to fight hard for eight years with the soldiers and horses of the Qin kings from all walks of life.During the change of defense of the three major battalions this autumn, in addition to the 13 people prescribed by each battalion, an additional 3 new recruits were sent respectively, and the military pay and corvee suddenly became heavy.The DPRK and China somewhat criticized this, because the 9 newly recruited horses were originally intended to enrich the Konoe Habayashi and the 20 Kinki Battalion.Once the military strength of the capital is weakened, the capital will be in danger invisibly.Most of the people who stood up to oppose it were old ministers. The rebellion of the tyrant Chu Fengyi 21 years ago really left too painful a mark in their memory.
"Strange..." Zhang Chengqian narrowed his eyes slightly against the wind mixed with yellow sand.
Haishi caught up from behind and asked, "What's wrong?"
"We walk from the southeast to the west. Every October before the heavy snow closes the mountains, we can meet some Leizhou merchants who are not afraid of death, rushing to transport safflower, jibei and musk into Kaman. It is said that there are 12 people in Huangquanguan this year. The Ku people would not choose this time to gnaw hard bones, the road in Hanzhou should be safer." As he spoke, the heroic Bian Jiang turned his eyes to his hand holding the bridle, muttering, as if he was Explaining to Haishi, it seemed to be talking to himself: "But this road is surprisingly quiet. There are no Nanbi people, Zhuchari people, or Nihualuo people. Damn, it's really cold."
"You mean the Huku people have reached Huangquan Pass..." Haishi looked northwest.The Gobi is magnanimous and desolate, but the gloomy sky is ambushing from all sides, unpredictable.
"If they attack Huangquanguan, we should have news when we return from the frost. But at this time, all the season springs in the Gobi Desert should dry up. Except for the water plants along the river in Piluoshan Valley, other places are bare Yes, it is dangerous and there is no way out. If they don't break through Huangquan Pass, where else can they go?"
The wind carried a white shadow across Haishi's eyes and landed on the back of her hand. When she looked closely again, the feathery thing turned into a drop of cold and turbid water.She was taken aback, and looked up at the sky. The lead-like clouds were turbulent, sporadically sprinkling a little bit of dull white, and the wind suddenly became dry and cold.
It was the end of September and it was snowing.
The snowflakes gradually thickened, and after only a moment, it was impossible to see the road ahead several miles away.For a moment, there was a slight commotion in the long queue. Haishi was about to order Qianqi from each team to appease the soldiers under his command, but Zhang Chengqian pinched his shoulder unexpectedly.
"Glacier, they came in from the glacier!"
"What glacier? Fushan glacier? It's impossible to pass there!" Hai Shi frowned in pain.
"In the past few years, the weather has been unnaturally warm, and the glaciers have somewhat melted, and the several-foot-deep chasms between the ice tongue and the rocks have gradually been filled with water and sand, and it will be much smoother when it freezes again in winter. But in this case , the glacier is prone to slide and collapse, and it is impossible to walk at all. If the vibration is too strong, it will also trigger an avalanche on the mountain. Therefore, we only left less than [-] people in Shuijingtun in front of the Fushan glacier. It’s snowing, on the Huku people’s side, I’m afraid it’s September, no, the pastures were covered by snow at the end of August!” Snow fell on Zhang Chengqian’s mustache, and when he turned his head suddenly, the flakes of snow trembled and fell: "The glaciers have been frozen solid in such a cold weather once in decades. Apart from taking Piluoshan Valley to Huangquanguan, this glacier is the best road. In addition, the terrain is rugged and easy to cover. Centaur, if I were from Huku, I would rather go to the glacier!"
"They can't bring much food and grass, so they must be going to plunder?" Haishi asked anxiously.
Zhang Chengqian clenched his teeth, with strong muscles protruding from his cheeks: "Yes, Shuijingtun is 2000 miles away from the glacier. There are less than 550 troops stationed there, and there are only more than 210 people in the settlement. There are business travelers traveling from east to west. They are all replenished there. Now we are 12 miles away from Huangquan Pass and [-] miles away from Shuijingtun, and we are still detaining [-] winter rations. We cannot move rashly. This Shuijingtun is probably already..."
"Brother Zhang, you go back to the camp with food, let me go to Shuijingtun!" Haishi said suddenly.
Zhang Chengqian couldn't help but looked at this young colleague carefully.He had heard that Fang Haishi, the new general, was a candidate for the new martial arts examination, and Zhang Chengqian only saw him twice before leaving Beijing.That time under Chengji's sect, Fang Haishi was wearing a grand ceremony court dress. He was a handsome young man with a golden complexion and beautiful eyebrows like a woman. He also heard that he was the adopted son of a powerful eunuch. Zhang Chengqian felt disheartened when he saw it.Young Master Guan has seen a lot, none of them are promising, and he no longer has any hope, just begging him not to die at the border to teach them how to do it, that's fine.But along the way, he felt that this young man was persevering, he could endure all kinds of hardships, as if he had borrowed someone else's body to revive his soul, and he didn't spare himself. Hearing what Haishi said now, he became even more worried.
"This is your first battle, and there is no one to lead you, this..."
"Brother Zhang, the winter grain for 12 people falls on you, of course we can't be distracted, but this Shuijingtun, we can't do nothing. Otherwise, if the news spreads, who will dare to come to cultivate it in the future?"
Zhang Chengqian knew that what he said was reasonable, but he was afraid that he was a newborn calf who didn't know the depth of the battlefield, so he had to call a few experienced thousand cavalry, and assigned eight thousand elite soldiers to him to watch this brave man and horse hunting in the snowstorm. , hurriedly headed towards Shuijingtun.Zhang Chengqian wiped off the snow powder from his mustache, turned around, looked at the brigade behind him, and shouted: "What are you doing standing there? Hurry up! We must arrive at the base camp before dark tomorrow!"
In the evening of the next day, a brigade of 2000 people arrived at Huangquan Camp at the foot of Piluo Mountain with food and grass for the winter.After deliberation, it was decided to order two five thousand cavalry to lead their troops to rescue Shuijingtun.At night, people shouted horses on the Southwest Road, Zhang Chengqian jumped out of the tent, and saw that the sky was completely dark, and the road was winding with bright pines. The leading boy was covered with blood, and his face was as pale as death. running.
"How is it?" Zhang Chengqian saw that Haishi staggered when he got off his horse, so he hurriedly gave him a hand.
Haishi swallowed his saliva, opened his dry lips and said, "It's too late, most of the people in Shuijingtun... are gone."
The rough man clenched his teeth, and asked after a while, "Where are the Huku people?"
The young man's face reflected the light and shadow of flames, and his eyes were scorching: "Out of the 3000 and [-] Huku people, [-] escaped, and the rest refused to surrender, leaving around [-] alive with difficulty. Now they are rushing to the exit of the glacier. Digging trenches, insufficient defense, thinking about returning to ask for some men, just happened to meet Lu Qianqi and Chen Qianqi on the way, please go to Shuijingtun for reinforcements first, I will report a letter when I come back."
"It's enough to have Lu Qianqi and Chen Qianqi." A man in a blue cloak, who had stood behind them for an unknown amount of time, said at this moment, "You don't have to go to Shuijingtun, just stay in the camp .When the trenches are dug, the road to the glacier will be blocked, and there will be fewer people left. I’m afraid they will also make a fuss, and it’s time to use people to close it.”
Zhang Chengqian bowed and bowed: "General Tang."
Haishi knew that this must be the owner of Huangquan camp who dried the soup, and followed suit like a ritual.Tang Gan was in his thirties and had only been stationed at Huangquan Pass for six years, but his reputation spread far and wide, he was a very strong man.Huku has been disturbed for many years, and most of the frontier residents have hatreds such as the killing of men, the humiliation of wives and daughters, and the kidnapping of livestock.Therefore, every time Huku spies were captured, Tang Gan would throw the spies to the villagers for disposal, and when the captives were tortured to death, he would order the soldiers to hang these miserable corpses on the pass.When the Huku people invade again, these villagers have no room to maneuver, and they must fight desperately.Unexpectedly, such powerful characters turned out to be only of medium stature, with an elegant complexion, not like the commander of an army, but more like a staff adviser.
Tang Ganzi nodded, and said, "Tell the boss to arrange dinner for the people who came back from Shuijingtun. General Fang Shen will join us tonight."
Shuijingtun lost nearly [-] defenders, Tang Ganzi and several generals were not at ease, so the meal in the camp was extremely quiet.The food is not any special delicacy, the same as the soldiers, it is coarse corn, beef and mutton, but it is cooked more carefully.The soldiers brought out a huge plate, which was the roast lamb common to the people on the frontier. They pulled out their knives and cut off large pieces. Each of them gave a portion, and there were tiny oil bubbles, and each chopped up the lamb with the knife .Haishi pulled out his saber and cut one corner, the mutton was tender red, and blood gushed out immediately, it was like the feeling of the blade cutting the flesh and blood of Huku people.She couldn't help but turn pale, with nausea in her chest.
Zhang Chengqian turned his head to look at the young colleague beside him, and asked with concern: "What, are you uncomfortable?"
Haishi forced a smile, unwilling to be taken lightly by others, and did not explain.
Tang Gan said to himself: "General Fang Shen is young, and the battle is so horrific. It is inevitable to feel sick for a while. Back then, everyone had this virtue. It will be fine after a long time. Just afraid of being offended by resentment, you might as well go to the ancestral hall to pay homage." bye."
Zhang Chengqian patted his head suddenly: "Neglected, I should have taken you to the military temple earlier."
The so-called military temple is just a room on the west side of the commander's barracks, with a long burning lamp lit, and a scroll of paintings after the dim light.Although the color of the paper is not fresh, it has been preserved extremely neatly.
Zhang Chengqian taught Haishi to light three sticks of incense, bowed and knelt down, and went forward to insert the stick of incense into the incense burner in front of the painting scroll.When Haishi raised his head, he was facing a pair of beautiful narrow Danfeng eyes, with a concentrated divine light, which seemed to have bottomless depth.Her hands trembled, and the incense ash and sparks fell off, and the knife wound on the back of her hand was a little red.Take a closer look, the young man in military uniform in the painting is carrying a longbow, with one hand lightly pressing his waist and wearing a purple gold chi kiss ring knife, and guarding the young man in royal attire in the middle with all the people—you can’t go wrong, the young man in military uniform is gentle and gentle On his face, the half-inch-long old knife mark that was slightly raised, still contained a specious smile.
"This is, this is..." she muttered to herself.
Zhang Chengqian nodded and said: "That's right, these are the six generals who followed the emperor to fight rebellion during the eight years from the Chengji Gate Rebellion to the Hongyaoyuan War when the emperor was still King Xu. Seraph."
Tang Ganzi stared at the seven spirited people on the scroll, and counted: "Gu Dacheng, he was originally a giant bandit in Qi County; Born as a maidservant; Su Ming, the second son of the famous general Su Jingfei; Amolan, whose life experience is unknown, crossed the sea and fled from the Kingdom of Chenla. One of the two people in the middle is King Xu—the emperor who is now my great conquest , Di Xu. And this one," Tang Ganzi moved his finger to the young man in uniform, and sighed inaudibly, "is the late Qing Haigong's heir, Fang Jianming."
In the depths of Haishi's voice, there was a slight tremor: "But, aren't all the six-winged generals who suppressed the rebellion dead?"
"That's right... Guo Zhixing's mount frantically threw him off and broke his neck; Ju Qiqiu was nearly [-] years pregnant and died of dystocia. Half a year later, a prisoner on death row reported that Amolan He had always been at odds with Guo Zhixing, so he sent people to put thorns, a specialty of Chenla, between the saddle and the horse's back, and coated the stirrups with shellac, and murdered Guo Zhixing. Amolan fled and died in the chaos on the way Arrow. Fang Jianming died suddenly of a sudden illness."
These words, every sentence has never exceeded their duty, but there is an extremely dangerous atmosphere hidden.A trace of cold air, following Tang Gan's indifferent voice, penetrated into Haishi's spine, coiling and deepening, as if to freeze her bone marrow.
No, Haishi clearly knew it was not.Seraph, at least one is still alive.However, why did Fang Jianming, one of the six-winged generals who should have died of a sudden illness, hide his name and live in the inner palace, and became Feng Ting's chief manager Fang Zhu?And what made the young general, who was on the battlefield more than ten years ago, lose his edge, and finally become the gentle and peaceful man in green shirt who raised her for ten years?
"Then, Gu Dacheng indulged his subordinates in looting and killed them for the folk rangers; Su Ming went to Shangzhou as an envoy, but before he left the country, he encountered a yellow sandstorm in the southwest of Hanzhou, and in the desert between Juzi and Dumulan In less than five years since the founding of the country, there is not even one of the six-winged generals left. Really, the fate is unpredictable." The last sentence, like a tangible object, slipped coldly across the sea city skin.
Haishi turned back, looked at the commander of Huangquanying hiding in the dim shadows, and recalled what Fang Zhu had said to her against the bright apocalyptic night before the expedition.As always, the calm, very ordinary tone seemed to just ask her to close the window for him, or to grind ink: "I want you to protect Tang Ganzi, just like you protect me. But once I send you a letter from Beijing, no matter what the content is , kill him as soon as possible.”
So, the handsome new general nodded, and casually said to the coach: "The destiny is unpredictable, isn't it?"
The three seasons of spring, summer and autumn in Huangquanguan are extremely short, with distinct changes, but the winter is long and endless.Once the snow came up, it couldn't be stopped, and the snow cover on the top of the mountain gradually stretched towards the blue mountainside. From a distance, it looked like white flowers blooming in a hurry on the mountain range.This winter has come quickly and harshly, so it can be seen that the snowmelt in spring will be particularly late. "This year's Migratory Birds in the Misty Sea may not pass through until April or May," Zhang Chengqian said.Migratory birds come and go every spring and autumn, and they always pass through Huangquan Pass.
At that time, on the way from Shuanghuan to Huangquan Pass, Zhang Chengqian pointed out Ming Menghai to Haishi.The people in the eastern land call it the Misty Sea, but because it is foggy at night and does not appear in the dark, and the border people call it "sea" regardless of fresh water or salt water lakes, so they gave it a convenient name.Nihualuo merchants called this lake Cuo Mubo, "Cuo'e" means lake and sea, and "Mubo" means green and blue.The Huku people call it "Kukunuoer", which means the blue sea.
In the Gobi wilderness, it’s not uncommon to see dead horses run over the mountains, but the misty sea seems to be only three or five miles away. If you really want to get close, you may have to run for a long time.Haishi said lightly: "I don't like water." He didn't go.It's just that far away in the smoke and dust, I saw a dark gray pool of water, and I don't know if it is frozen.Since the age of seven, he has never seen the sea again.No matter how vast and vast the water in the north is, it always has a limit, but the sea does not.The endless salty, bitter and clear water weighed heavily on the memory in her chest, causing her to often wake up from nightmares in the middle of the night, and taste the dense cold sweat on her lips, which is the taste of sea water.
According to legend, after crossing Mount Piluo, 19 miles to the west, deep in the permafrost plain of Shangzhou, farther north than the Sea of Bingyan, at the foot of Mount Tianchi, there is a land that is even more norther than the Sea of Misty Sea. The large lake, called Bokar Sea, is where migratory birds gather in summer and where dragon gods live in seclusion.Legend has it that in the previous dynasty, civilians in Lanzhou were swept away by a hurricane and brought to Bokar Sea.The man was only [-] years old when he was swept away, and he was nearly [-] years old when he escaped. All the fingers on his hands were frozen off, and only one or two joints remained, like a doll that had been dismantled. hand.However, in the imagination of Donglu people, the so-called extreme north is just Huangquan Pass.
When the Piluo Mountains reached Huangquanguan, they suddenly staggered into two parts, namely the East Piluo Mountains and the West Piluo Mountains.The West Piluo Mountains are located slightly north, and there is an ice-free spring on the southern foot, from which the Piluo River originates, flows to the south, and finally flows into the Misty Sea.As a result, a zigzag-shaped narrow river valley was washed out between the overlapping of two towering snow peaks.From the source of the unfrozen spring to the north, there is a difficult and dangerous valley leading directly to Hongyaoyuan outside the mountain pass. This is the only road that can communicate from north to south on the nearly [-]-mile Piluo Mountains.Although it is a river valley and a valley, it is still three hundred feet higher than the flat land. If you have a familiar guide, you can cross it in a day and night.When the Pira River reached the valley of the East Pira Mountains in the south, it changed its course and dived into the ground, and gushed out of the ground at the foot of the mountain, leaving only a [-]-mile-long dry river channel washed out tens of millions of years ago.Huangquan Pass is located on this section of dry river, which strangles this main road and becomes a pass that is difficult to attack in the northwest.After passing the Piluo Mountains, Hanzhou is a flat river. After crossing south by boat, there are few natural barriers for more than [-] miles in the direction of the imperial capital.Once Huangquan Pass is lost, Northwest Hanzhou will open its doors wide, and the counties in Donglu will be in danger.
Haishi stood in front of the camp at the foot of the mountain, looking up.Winding upwards along the river valley, dozens of pearl-like fires are burning in the night.According to Zhang Chengqian, [-] soldiers are on standby at the pass every three hours, and there are a few watchposts distributed on the northern passage.
"If the Huku people encounter a year with plenty of water and grass, they will not move a step south with a whip. However, if there is a drought, a freeze, or a plague in the livestock, they... are like locusts. Here we come." Zhang Chengqian shook his head.
Several children in ragged clothes ran past Haishi laughing and fighting, scratching and scratching around the thigh of the sentry in the camp.The sentinel was all smiles, yelling at the dirty children, and giving each of them a light kick.Haishi was very surprised to hear those children speak an unfamiliar barbarian language: "Where did the little barbarians come from in the barracks in the middle of the night?"
Zhang Chengqian just shook his head: "Those black-haired and black-eyed people are all Kamanans. They said that they fled to us because of the snowstorm this year, suffering from hunger and cold. They have already arrived several times in the past few days."
"Is it just kept in the barracks like this?"
"Where is it, the snow is so deep now, I have to keep them for now, and when there are thousands of people, send them to Shuijingtun together to teach them how to make a living."
While talking, there was a sound of shouting, and someone on the hill was waving a torch.Zhang Chengqian squinted his eyes and took a look: "Just as we were talking, another group came. Look at the torches, one up first, those who come are not enemies, and the six horizontal ones behind, there are 600 people who come."
Haishi frowned and slowed down, staring intently at the Piluo River that bypassed the camp.The gang leader led the help cooks to dig the ice surface by the river, and put down the bucket to draw water. At this time, there was a commotion for some reason.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Chengqian noticed that Haishi hadn't followed, and turned around to see him squatting next to the helpers.
His young colleague hurried up and showed him the wet thing in the palm of his left hand.It was a half wooden sign, which had been rubbed smooth and black due to long-term use. It was originally engraved with characters, but now it can only be distinguished as half of the word "Spring".
"Brother Zhang, this is..."
Zhang Chengqian's face changed suddenly: "This is the badge of the person who guards the spring on duty!"
"On the way to Guanshang, you must pass the Budong Spring, right?"
"That's... the only way to go." Zhang Chengqian turned his head and ordered to the gatekeepers: "Use fire as a sign, and tell the higher-ups not to open the gates and let people go."
"I'll take a few people up first!" Haishi said and turned around and ran towards his tent.
"Wait!" Zhang Chengqian called out to Haishi, "You bring some fast and experienced ones, first go to the hanging tower and wait, bring more arrows."
"Yes!" Haishi had already run away, and his silver-like voice penetrated the night.
Don't just die like this.Zhang Chengqian thought silently while running towards the Chinese army.
While running, Haishi gently wiped his right hand dry on the lapel of his clothes, the pearly white light in his palm gradually faded and finally disappeared.
Haishi and the others rushed all the way, and arrived at the gate in less than half an hour.The rotating general, Fu Yi, is a black, thin, capable man in his forties.Hearing Haishi's hasty report of the abnormal situation, Fu Yi's eyebrows became tighter and tighter, and he remained silent.
"Master Fu?" Haishi frowned slightly, and a pair of bright clear water eyes stared at Fu Yi from under the helmet.
"Lord Fang, please look over there." As Fu Yi said, some soldiers let them to the arrow's eye.
Haishi peered down through the palm-sized arrow eye, and couldn't help but take a light breath.
Huangquanguan is built in the shape of a mountain, with a very narrow facade but a very steep one, just like a door on the path of "Zhi".After leaving the northern part of the Guan, Kaman is in the east and Huku is in the west. The border between the two countries cannot be discerned as far as the eye can see.This pass was originally built for trade, and the gate is a little wider, which only allows two horses to walk side by side.
The establishment of the Huku state was only a matter of more than three hundred years ago, during the reign of the two former emperors, Dizhuang and Diwu.During the Duan Dynasty, the climate in the north of Tongyun Mountain near the border of Ningzhou in Hanzhou became worse. A group of barbarians who called themselves Huku were forced to leave their homeland where they had lived for generations.In the legend of Huku, their tribe was born of Tianma, and Tianma is the daughter of dragon. "Huku" means "dragon grandson" in the barbarian language.The other tribes on the steppe called them "Bublo" contemptuously, the mongrel foals.Because the Huku people are taller than ordinary barbarians, and they are blond and blue-eyed, people say that they are bastards who have mixed blood with the Kuafu tribe and the Yu tribe many times respectively, and they cannot even be regarded as a branch of the barbarians.However, this wandering tribe grew up silently like a lone wolf.400 years after they left their homeland, Huku under the leadership of King Balan has become one of the few powerful tribes on the grassland.Some people say that the blood of Pasur's family's bronze and Gu Xuan's blood flowed in the veins of King Balan. He came to this world to reap human lives, just like farmers in the Eastern Land reap rice.Of course, this is just a rumor after all. Qingyang's Pasur clan began to decline after the death of Zhaowu Gong Lu Guichen, and it declined to nowhere in the Duan Dynasty.In the era of King Balan, the territory of the Donglu Zheng Dynasty had advanced to the south of the Piluo Mountains.After the Huku Department swept Hanbei, swallowed the Youjin Department, and the Chun Branch, it continued to move southward and invaded Huangquan Pass several times.Since then, for the sake of ease of guarding, Huangquanguan has rebuilt the closing gate into a lifting gate that only allows one person to pass by with a horse.
But right now, on the narrow snow-covered passage, groups of turbid black shadows huddled together quietly and closely, and the team lined up all the way to the dark depths that were invisible in the distance.Occasionally, one or two faces in the crowd raised up, their faces were pale, and they glanced at the tower, as if they didn't have any hope, and then lowered themselves and were submerged in the shadows.
"Those people are real refugees from Kaman, with black hair and black eyes. The Huku people are golden-haired and blue-eyed. They are unique among the barbarians, and they can be distinguished at a glance. That's why they blackmailed the Kaman people as a shield." As Yi said, he stood up and picked up the helmet at hand.
Footsteps were heard on the stairs, and several school lieutenants came afterward, and passed on General Tang's order: "Open the gate and go north, push them out."
"Open the gate and go north..." Fu Yi's face was so dark that he couldn't easily see his expression, "When will the brigade arrive?"
"Master Huifu, the great king Qianqi and the little Wang Qianqi each lead 4000 people, and they will arrive in three quarters."
Fu Yi let out a long sigh, stretched out his hands and beat his lower back, his joints creaked: "If you haven't been to the Red Medicine Plant for 13 years, your bones are old."
A desolate little voice resounded repeatedly on the mountain wall, Haishi looked intently, at the bottom of the city tower, a small sheep's head protruded from the ripped felt robe of the black-eyed Kaman girl.
"Lord Fang, I heard that you are proficient in all kinds of martial arts, among which riding and archery are the most proficient. This year's martial arts high school is the best, and the riding and archery tests are overwhelming. The crowd applauded." Fu Yi took a few steps, Suddenly turned around.
"My lord Fu praises it, that is the humility of the same year." Hai Shi replied.
"Then, the Xuanlou will be handed over to Master Fang. Let some good shooters go with Master Fang."
"Yes." Haishi saluted, got up and ran out briskly.
Hanging Towers are not actually buildings, but a few natural caves on the mountain wall on the east side of the mountain two or three miles north of Huangquan Pass, which can only be reached from a steep gecko road in the pass, and they are condescending.It is said to be used as an archery tower, but in fact it has not been used for a long time since it was closed for a long time. There are arrows, rough felt, tung oil and a little grain and water accumulated in it, which is almost abandoned.
Haishi led twenty archers to climb up the hanging tower, then hid himself in the cave, holding his breath and waiting.In the valley to the south there were gradually small noises, and a group of horses and horses came out, all white-robed horses, about 150 of them galloped silently on the clear and shining snow.
"Good guy, you pulled half of the Qilin battalion out." The archer lying beside him wiped the bowstring with tallow, and said in a low voice, "Those Kamanans have no way out."
"What can we do?" The man who answered shook his head, "I'm afraid the Huku barbarians will be famished this winter, and I'm afraid they won't be able to close the gate once it is opened. Historically, military books only teach the use of fire ox formations, not They used living people as shields. In order to seize the food and grass of our camp, they did such wicked things. In the final analysis, we can’t be blamed.”
From the hanging tower, the shadows of the Huku cavalry quietly pulling their horses to the south can be vaguely seen, while the Qilin Battalion has already lined up in front of the pass. Afterwards, more than 7000 horses and Qilin Battalion will be separated by eight feet, and they will line up five along the narrow valley. In and out.Sandwiched between the front and rear two towering iron streams ready to go, the six hundred ragged Gamans just huddled together in silence.
"This year the barbarians in Huku are starving. Knowing that we have food in the pass, it's like a wolf smelling blood. Jinshuijingtun has been completely wiped out, and now even Huangquan Pass dares to attack—but if we detour three thousand miles from the west Come here to look for food, I'm afraid if you can't find food, you will all starve to death."
"Look at the battle, this time they are here to fight for their lives."
In the Heileng cave, Xuxu's human voice was entangled like countless invisible hands.Haishi suddenly felt that the silver chain mail on his chest was buckled too tightly, and he was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.
The Wutie gate of Huangquanguan is extremely thick and heavy, and the sixteen cooked copper hinges are all as thick as the mouth of a bowl, but they turn silently.
There was a slight commotion among the Kaman crowd, and the lamb from the girl's arms suddenly broke free, and the four slender little hooves stepped onto the snow with a crisp and soft sound.The whole body of the lamb is pure white, with a line of shiny black down from the forehead to the nose. It has a light body and black eyes. It was probably brought in the bosom by a lamb who was a breeding sheep when preparing to rebuild the pasture.The lamb took two steps forward curiously, looking at the white horse legs exposed behind the gate.The door closed higher and higher, and hundreds of pairs of silver greaves were dazzling in the snow light.
The lamb poked its tender neck and bleated.A gust of wind from the sky pierced through its young body, splashing a cluster of blood onto the white paper-like snow.From the city head and arrow holes of Huangquan Pass, crossbowmen shot arrows like locusts.A blood-stained hand reached out to the lamb, but was nailed into the snow by a howling arrow.
With a whistle, 150 cavalrymen from the Qilin Battalion rushed out like silver dragons, stepped over the messy slush and corpses, and rushed towards the first column of Huku cavalry who rushed towards them like a furious tide.The Huku people wield a ring knife in one hand and a shield in the other, with sharp cones protruding from the shield, which is flexible and powerful.During the reign of the two former emperors, Dizhuang and Diwu, the guards of Huangquan Gate suffered a lot from this.Later, Wukusi made a five-foot-five spear for Huangquanguan, which was about the same length as a short man, and it could be used freely on narrow mountain paths, and it was sharp and agile, and could directly attack the small gap between the Huku people's shield and knife .The Qilin Battalion came swiftly and fiercely, seeing snow powder flying in the distance, a silvery white line advancing northward, the white light passed by, and human corpses and horse corpses of Huku were piled up on the mountain road. Was crushed and trampled to death.The Huku people in the back shouted loudly, and the second formation came forward, and there was another whistle in the Qilin camp, and more than a hundred blood-stained five-foot-five spears pointed forward, rushed into the formation, and fought together.
The hanging building is located to the north of Guanmen, facing the backs of Huku vanguard soldiers, forming a pincer attack trend with the crossbows on the city.
Haishi knelt on one knee at the entrance of the hanging building, and took out a gold wrench finger inlaid with water-green glaze from his waist, examined it carefully, and put it on his thumb again.The finger ring was originally used by men, but she thought it was too big to wear it, so she wrapped it with green silk thread like an ordinary girl in a boudoir wraps her ring.
"Armor-piercing arrows." Haishi said, heh-heh the bowstring, and took out three kite-feathered armor-piercing arrows with one hand, sandwiched them between his four fingers. With his thumb, he opened a six-stone bow steadily, aiming at Hukudi. Back three times, "Let go."
The arrows fell like a swarm of locusts towards Huku's third formation.The Huku people did not expect to be attacked from their backs, and they crowded and trampled each other for a while, but they were caught by the front and rear formations and couldn't move.The second group of Huku people heard the commotion and pushing from behind, suspected that they had been ambushed, and panicked in their hearts, the two little leaders yelled sharply, reorganized their formation, and led the crowd to rush into the Qilin camp.The sergeants in front of the Qilin camp stabbed out five-foot-five spears overlappingly, twisted them into a line to block Huku's shield, and drew out narrow-bladed ring-handed knives one after another to slash.
"Shoot down the fifth formation, let's open the way for Qilin Battalion. Shoot three times in a row, and I won't stop, and no one will stop." The young general said in a low voice, and 21 six-stone bows soundlessly opened to a full circle. .
"put!"
The sound of the bowstring clanging was like the rapid rain breaking through the air, and the Huku people were trapped on the mountain road and could not escape. The third, fourth, and fifth formations at the southern end had been cut off from the northern main formation by the sharp arrow rain. The impact of the silver tide.The formation is getting thinner and thinner, but the rain of arrows still refuses to stop.
When Haishi yelled "Stop", there was only the last row of more than a hundred Huku people left, and they were immediately mowed down by the Qilin camp frontier like crops in late autumn.
Haishi's ears suddenly felt cold, and an archer beside him was covering his shoulders, and a Haidong Qingling feather arrow, which is used by Huku people, fell on the ground, which was obviously scratched by the arrow.
The road below the hanging building has long been covered by random arrows and corpses, and further north, it is invisible due to the orientation of the hanging building.She ventured out of the hole of the hanging building to look north, and saw that in the Huku people's main formation, several archers were shooting random arrows at the hanging building, and a dozen other archers were already arrayed in front, heading towards the Qilin who was advancing step by step. The battalion drew its bow.The Qilin Battalion came here for melee combat this time, without shield equipment, and it seemed that they would suffer heavy losses.
"You two, grab my leg." Haishi gritted his teeth, retracted his body, sat with his back to the hole, and said to the two archers nearby.But she herself bit three arrows in her mouth, held three more arrows between her fingers, held the bow in her left hand, and hung her upper body on the stone wall outside the cave, hanging upside down, and shot three arrows in a row at the archers in Huku's main formation. , all without false hair.During this time, she had seen a tall and strong archer in the formation, and the armor was more eye-catching. She thought it was the leader of the archer, so she took out the three arrows between her teeth, and shot at the man like a shooting star.The arrows used by Haishi are a bit particular. First, there are two armor-piercing arrows, followed by a blood-letting arrow, which is intended to pierce through the weak points of the armor connection, and then severely injure the enemy with the blood-letting arrow with grooves.As soon as she sat up, she heard a few clicks, and the arrows of the Huku people hit the stone wall one after another.Haishi looked back and saw the tall archer holding the three arrows gathered together on his throat, and pulled out with a loud shout.He couldn't see clearly in the snowy light from afar, but he saw the people swarming up beside him took two steps back and wiped their faces, thinking they were sprayed with blood all over their faces.
Haishi took advantage of the chaos and hung upside down again, but he didn't care about the random arrows flying horizontally, and the archers in the Huku formation fell one after another in response.
"Lord Fang!" the soldier on the hanging tower shouted, his voice was broken with panic.
As soon as she turned her gaze, an arrow was coming through the air, and it was in front of her eyes in an instant, there was no way to avoid it, and even the blood groove buried in the three-edged arrowhead could be clearly seen.
She stubbornly opened a pair of bright eyes.
The archers on the hanging tower looked down from above, they could only see Hai Shi Yiya's sharp chin upside down, but the arrow was firmly nailed to her upside down face, the shaft of the arrow hummed and trembled endlessly.
At this time, the forward of the Qilin Battalion had crashed into the Huku main formation, and the infantry rushed out, but Zhang Kekuan's passageway was full of people and horses wriggling together.But the young man shooting arrows in the formation was still standing on the saddle with a long body on the stirrup, looked up the hanging tower, and then got off the horse, and someone immediately carried the body of the archer leader who died earlier.The young man stretched out his hand to take off the dead man's battle helmet, grabbed a strand of blond hair from the dead man, drew out his saber and chopped off the head, brought the head to his eyes, and kissed it again and again, but he heard the shouts from his relatives, and when he looked up, he saw a long arrow. The shot came, and his face changed suddenly.At this very moment, a man dressed in a white robe hurriedly stood in front of the young man, and stretched out his hand as if desperate to block.Haidong Qingling's long arrowhead brushed against his palm, and immediately fell to the ground with a sound of gold and stone.There was a small commotion in the formation of the Huku people, but the man in white robe was not injured at all, he took a step back indifferently, and stood by the side of the young horse.The young man looked up and saw that the long arrow on the face of the Dazheng archer hanging upside down on the cliff had disappeared, and when he looked closely at the arrow he blocked just now, it was the one he had shot earlier.It is thought that the archer of Dazheng bit the incoming arrow with his teeth, and then took advantage of his unpreparedness and shot back.
A smile appeared on the blood-stained lips of the Huku youth, and he hooked his fingers contemptuously towards the cliff. Immediately, he hung his head on the back of the saddle, ordered the soldiers to cover him, steered his horse and led the team to turn around, and disappeared at the bend of the northern mountain road.
Hai Shi licked his front teeth, spat out a mouthful of blood, and said, "This man is weird, he seems to have used some kind of secret technique. Let's hurry up and catch up."
"Fang, Master Fang..." A young archer who was about the same age as Hai Shi spoke intermittently, his lips trembling.
"What?" Haishi responded with his horn bow on his back.
"The Huku people set up a black flag, the black flag of the king's death... I heard that they didn't bury their bodies, and threw their bodies everywhere for hyenas and vultures to eat. Only the heads of their tribes who died on the battlefield were sent back. It was buried together with the body made of gold..." The little archer couldn't help grinning, his pale and skinned lips broke free from bloody cuts.
"Lord Fang, you shot a king, a king!"
The Huku people didn't seem to like fighting, they attacked with great fanfare, but they retreated as quickly as the tide.Haishi dashed down from the hanging building, grabbed a horse, and chased northward.I was caught in the brigade and chased for more than 32 miles. The road in front of me was exhausted. I had to go back to the stream and waded up, turned over the foot of Dongpiluo Mountain, climbed up Xipiluo Mountain, and passed a full [-] miles of valleys to reach Biluo Mountain. The source of the Luo River is not frozen spring.From the source of the spring to the north, there is a mountain trail.Near noon the next day, Haishi finally caught up with Fu Yibu, who was leading the chase.Although the Huku people retreated quickly, they couldn't get rid of the Fuyi Department for a while, so they had to hold it leisurely.
"Master Fang has good eyesight. Huku people never use ceremonial guards. No one can tell that Zuo Putun king is in the crowd." Fu Yi said slowly, "This Zuo Putun king was brave and aggressive and attacked the one in Shuijingtun." The 3000 men were also his subordinates. It was originally said that they should be the vanguard to level the road, and the army would arrive shortly thereafter. Unexpectedly, he turned around and killed Huangquan Pass, but threw the 3000 men who had been kept in the dark at Shuijingtun as a feint attack. Now he Dead, the new Zuo Putun king is the old king's half-brother, and the spies said that they were not very close, so they immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops."
In the Huku formation, the original blue flags were no longer visible, and what was flying at the beginning of each team was full-width ramie cloth in onyx black.
"That is the new King Zuo Putun." Fu Yi pointed to a young man who was heavily guarded at the end of the Huku team.The figure of the young man was covered by the fluttering mourning flags, so he couldn't see carefully, what stood out was a human head, with a whole strand of blond hair hanging behind the saddle, swaying back and forth with the pace of the dark cloud riding on the snow.
Haishi frowned slightly, rode his horse and took two quick steps.At this time, the Huku people had already reached the exit of the mountain valley, and they could faintly see the vast extreme northern snowfield below. Just after turning around the tuyere, the huge wind swept the snow and sand, and the funeral flag was raised into the sky with a slap.At that moment, the man turned his face slightly, revealing a tall and straight silhouette.Haishi seemed to have been stuffed with a handful of snow in his chest, and he was startled.That was what she had seen for ten years, and there was no way she could have mistaken it.
"Zhuying—" she blurted out.
The man seemed to have heard Haishi's voice, turned his head, and with a provocative smile, hooked his fingers again.High nose, deep eyes, thick eyebrows, the same face and figure as Zhuo Ying, except for a pair of bright blue eyes.The blue-eyed young man took off his helmet, let loose his glorious blond hair, and loudly gave orders in barbarian language.The Huku people agreed in unison, and suddenly they all whipped their horses and moved down the mountain quickly.The teams that rushed out of the valley first lined up left and right on the snow field, strangled the valley as a cover, and the rest went straight to the north without hesitation. After entering the team, thousands of people raised snow and dust, and disappeared into the northern sky very quickly.
"That's Hongyaoyuan." Fu Yi reined in his horse, drew a circle in the air with the handle of his whip, and framed the snowfield north of the mountain valley inside.
The place where Hongyaoyuan is covered with snow in winter and desolate in summer has never opened a single flower of Hongyao, so the name comes from the Empress of Hongyao.Hong Yao was originally a daughter of the clan, and also the half-sister of Chu Fengyi, the tyrant king who raised troops and rebelled. 32 years ago, Chu Fengyi's army was defeated and fled to the north. After passing through Huangquan Pass and entering the territory of Huku, Emperor Ji of Hongyao sent troops to meet him. The army was completely destroyed, and the Huku army was defeated.Among the six-winged generals, Su Ming beheaded Chu Fengyi, while Hongyao Emperor Ji was trampled to death by the rebellious army.After this battle, the snow, mud, and flesh in the 14-mile field were mixed with red and black. The next year, when the weather was unusually warm, thin spring grass was born on the red medicine field, which was not eaten by livestock. The old man called it carrion grass. Yes it is.
The current situation in that year was like a majestic and ruthless raging torrent. According to the official historian's pen, a small wave splashed quietly, and it cost tens of thousands of lives.
"Every Ching Ming Festival, the twenty-mile red medicine field is full of women and children offering sacrifices." Fu Yi paused, and said, "It's been 14 years, and the women have grown old by sight, and the children have grown old by sight. This The world should calm down."
When they returned to the camp, there was no running Kaman boy in sight.That night, the Kamanans in the camp hadn't seen their compatriots enter the pass for a long time, and then they noticed that the army was going up the mountain, and there was a commotion, and finally all died.However, even if there is no riot, they have no way out.
"We can't let them go out and spread the word, saying that we will do nothing." Fu Yi's face was dark, and he still couldn't see the slightest expression.
(End of this chapter)
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