Chapter 323: The World of Snow
Yao Ling sat in the carriage and looked out at the outside world through the window.
Outside the car window, what was supposed to be a silent world of snow was now littered with corpses and rivers of blood.
Just now, a war had just ended.
It was the Yanlong army led by Yue Ming on the way to attack the seventh city of the Ji Kingdom, which was blocked by the Ji Kingdom army, and the Ji Kingdom army had the most tragic plain war.
This is also the battle in which Yanlong has suffered the most casualties in the three months since he entered the war. And this battle also ended with the defeat of the army of the Ji Kingdom.
On the white snowfield, there were dead and wounded soldiers everywhere, moans of pain one after another, and suppressed cries, which were the cries of mourning the fallen comrades.
A dusk sunset lit the snowy fields covered in blood and corpses, and the living soldiers busily carried the dead soldiers to bury them.
According to Yueming's order, they not only buried the corpses of their own soldiers, but also the corpses of the dead soldiers of the Ji Kingdom.
The cold wind swept across the faces of the living and dead soldiers like knives, but the dead no longer felt the cold that filled the heavens and the earth.
Yao Ling in the car quietly wiped away a tear that had fallen and said softly, "This snow has pierced my eyes." ”
"Wow"
The white curtain on the car window was closed by a slender jade-like hand, and Yao Ling looked out the window again, but it was already a hazy patch.
A small and unique carved copper hand stove was handed to her, Yao Ling raised his eyes to look at the moon light who handed him the copper hand stove, saw that his eyes were full of warmth, and suddenly there was an unspeakable grievance in his heart, like a lost child suddenly saw his father, and instantly burst into tears.
This bleak heaven and earth, this bleak world, this weak grass-like human life. Let her soft heart flood with boundless grief.
"Okay, sister, that's the end of the war, if it weren't for your extremely powerful husband who wanted to annex the country of thistle, we wouldn't have run here in this ice and snow to fight with people in a good manner. Hey, I hope that in the future, for the sake of our Jiangli, Xiwu, and Wu all who have done some help for him in attacking the Ji Kingdom, it is good not to annex the Three Kingdoms of Jiangnan. ”
It turned out that after Fengzhao arrived at Zhuye City, he launched two attacks on Liu Yi and tried to recover Yongguan, but Yongguan has been a border pass since ancient times, and the city has been strengthened countless times, and now Liu Yi is stationed, and the archers of the Ji Kingdom led by Liu Yi are all taught by Liu Yi himself, and the lethality is very powerful. In such a situation, the siege of the dragon is bound to pay a great price, and the casualties of the soldiers are also very heavy.
After trying to attack Yongguan twice, Fengzhao gave up the siege of Yongguan.
He ordered the army to retreat to the city of Zhuye to recuperate, and during this period, he wrote to Feng Ze: he hoped that the imperial court would send an envoy to Molong, asking Molong and Dalong to jointly attack the Ji Kingdom.
At the same time, he sent a letter to the monarch of Yanlong, hoping that Yanlong would agree to allow Dalong's troops to enter the country of Ji from Yanlong.
Chang Ruojin refused Dalong's request to send an army from Yanlong to attack Jiguo, but he agreed that Yueming would be in charge, and Xiwu and Jiang Li could send tens of thousands of horses and horses to join Yanlong's army to attack Jiguo from Yanlong.
And Rong Jianghai, as Jiang Li's supervisor, followed the army to Yueming's side. Stayed by Yaoling's side.
When Rong Jianghai was about to continue, Yueming on the side said lightly: "You can go back to your car and sleep." ”
Rong Jianghai's open mouth closed silently for a long time.
"Well, I'd better go and comfort the wounded soldiers. At last he got up and went out.
A piece of white brocade was handed to Yaoling, "Your nose will be scorched when you cry on such a cold day." ”
Yaoling didn't take the piece of brocade, she wiped the tears on her cheeks with her hands neatly, stared at Yueming with a pair of beautiful big eyes and asked, "You answer me, Xiaofeng will he annex the Three Kingdoms of Jiangnan." ”
Yueming's eyes as clear as water quietly looked at Yaoling in front of her, and saw that there was hesitation and vague fear in her teary eyes.
"Are you afraid that he will really annex Jiang Li?"
Yaoling hesitated slightly and nodded. "When I didn't know my father and mother, when I didn't know what country I was, I wanted to help Xiaofeng take the big dragon and take the world, as long as he liked me, I was willing to do it for him. But now that I know that I have parents, and I also know that I am Jiang Li, I am afraid that he will really annex Jiang Li and annex Yanlong and Xiwu. ”
The wind swept through the car window, and a slight chill seeped in. And a chic clay pot sat on the small stove in the center of the car, and the white heat was bubbling in the clay pot, and the fragrance of tea was unscrupulously permeated in the car, driving away the cold air that seeped in.
"No, he promised me that he would not annex the Three Kingdoms of Jiangnan. Yueming said softly:
"He is not a ruthless and unrighteous person, although Dalong has always wanted to annex the Ji Kingdom and annex the Three Kingdoms of Jiangnan since the founding of the country, but here he and Feng Ze are just annexing the Ji Kingdom. ”
Yaoling let out a long sigh of relief.
"As long as Xiaofeng doesn't annex the Three Kingdoms of Jiangnan, it's fine. "As for the future, it will be a long time away, as long as Xiaofeng doesn't embarrass her now. After all, Jiang Li is her mother's family. Even if she hadn't been raised for a day, she couldn't bear to swallow her up.
War is so cruel, since following Yueming's battle, she is used to seeing the impermanence of life and death, but today's scene still makes her cry.
Since Feng Zhao arrived in Zhuye City, she originally wanted to follow, but Yueming only said lightly, "You don't have to go over, he has nothing to do over there in the past few months, you just stay here." Soldiers in the south have not experienced the winter in the north, and the lack of adaptation in the war will affect the morale of the soldiers, so you have to stay and treat them. Soon the Jiang Li army and the Western Wu army led by your brother will drive over. They need your medical skills. ”
And Fengzhao also sent a message to Feiying to him to stay in the Yanlong army, because he was likely to come from Zhuye City.
Now that the war has been fought for three months, there has been no progress in the Dalong Border Pass, and only the Jiangnan coalition led by Yue Ming has conquered the six cities of Jiguo. At first, the army of the Ji Kingdom thought that Yanlong was just to deal with the big dragon and would not really help the big dragon attack the Ji country, so their resistance was not too hard.
However, when the armies of Jiang Li and Xiwu rushed over to join the Yanlong army, Ji Rujin knew that Yanlong would attack the Ji Kingdom as another team of the Great Dragon, so he ordered the Ji State army to strictly defend and prevent the Jiangnan coalition army from taking any of the cities of the Ji Kingdom again.
And today's battle is enough to show the determination and courage of the generals of the Ji Kingdom.
"No matter how dilapidated a country is, no matter how much the people complain, they don't want their country to be annexed by foreigners. The faint moon said a word.
"So you ordered to be kind to the corpses of the soldiers of the Ji Kingdom who had died in battle, right?" asked Yaoling softly.
"Yes, they are warriors who died fighting for their country, and such people deserve respect. ”
Yueming's face twisted towards the window, and her tone was calm and slow.
The wind whistled, Yaoling once again stared out of the car window, the sky was dark, night was coming, the sky began to sprinkle scattered snowflakes again, and there would be heavy snow tonight.
After staring at it for a while, she put down the hand stove in her hand, got up and walked to a chest of drawers placed in the corner of the car, opened the upper drawer and took out a packet of medicinal powder and handed it to Yueming: "I have prepared some medicine to drive away the cold and increase the strength of defense, you tell them to put it in when they cook the soup, so that every soldier can drink it will resist the cold tonight." ”
Yueming took the powder packet and got up and walked out of the car door.
"Flowers,
Colorful clouds like brocade,
The woman of my heart,
Waiting for me to come home.
The sky is vast,
Snow flying,
I'm in the northern night,
I miss the woman of my heart,
I miss the smoke of my hometown. ”
In the silence of heaven and earth, snowflakes flew silently, piles of bonfires were lit, and soldiers in the distance hummed this sad song.
Yaoling stood in the snow and listened quietly, she thought of her mother, her mother's soft and glutinous Jiang Li accent, and her mother's gentle and soft hand caressing her forehead.
She thought of the misty waters of the Kirin Valley and the blooming kapok tree.
She remembered the wind and the moon, when they had the light of the morning sun on their faces.
The clear and translucent sound of the flute sounded in her ears, and she looked back, and in the snow not far away, a white-clothed moonlight blew the jade flute, and the snowflakes fell around him.
His expression was still so cold, as if nothing in this world had anything to do with him.
Stretching out her hand, she caught a snowflake, watching the snowflake melt into a tiny drop of water in her palm, she closed her eyes slightly and felt the coolness of the snowflake after melting.
The flute in her ears suddenly became lighter, and she still closed her eyes and listened attentively,
It was as if a warm wind with the scent of southern flowers was blowing through, blowing away the fluttering snowflakes and blowing away the cold of the north. The warm and gentle wind caressed her face like a mother's hand.
When she opened her eyes, she saw that the faces of the soldiers surrounding the campfire had become calm and peaceful, and the previous sorrow had long since disappeared without a trace.
I was amazed again that the sound of the moonlight flute was so magical. Fengzhao once said that the sound of the moonlight's flute is enough to withstand the attack of an army. But today's war is so tragic, but Yueming did not use his flute, just because when the flute sounded, there were countless casualties regardless of the country, the north and the south.
She couldn't imagine the power of this beautiful flute when it was used to stop the army.