Chapter 1: A Muddy Nightmare Teenage Dream
March should be the season of revival of the bird girl's flowers, and nightmarish slaughter is taking place on a plain. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info at the beginning of the fifth year of Qinghe in the north, Emperor Qinghe ordered the mighty general to lead 50,000 troops south to capture Canghe County of Nanfu State, and Nanfu urgently requisitioned 30,000 against the Cangliang Plain in the lower reaches of the Dacang River. Three days after the battle, the Nanfu army was defeated, and a scene of one side fleeing and one side chasing and killing was staged.
Gu Xiaowu's closed brows moved, and there was no nightmarish shouting around him, quietly. When I opened my eyes and looked at it, the sky was slightly bright, and I recalled the experience that happened yesterday over and over again. Obviously good, the two armies were safe against each other, and the sun was about to set, I thought I could survive this day, and I could drink a bowl of sweet gruel, and it would be better if I could grab a coarse grain bun. But there was a sudden commotion ahead, and the sound of shouting and killing came from the front waves, and there was also the sound of panic. My hands and feet started to tremble, what was going on? There was a tremor of the earth under his feet, and he looked at the "companions" around him, and he was also at a loss. I don't know who shouted "Run, ----" in the distance, like a thunderbolt in my ears, and then I was stumbled by the person in front, it turned out that Wang Da rushed to the back, and the person behind had already run away. Instinctively, he also ran, but after only running more than ten steps, he was pushed away and fell by a bastard behind him, and before he could get up, he was stepped on by people several times and almost vomited blood. Just about to stand up, he was pressed under a big fat man and fainted. Soon I woke up for the first time when I was trampled by a war horse and woke up with a broken hand bone, and it hurt, it was very painful, so painful that I instinctively curled up under the big fat man and fainted. It was still painful to wake up again, and the surrounding was a tragic scream from a distance from time to time, and Gu Xiaowu didn't dare to make a sound, only tears flowed uncontrollably. The night was already deep, and there was the sound of footsteps around it, accompanied by the sound of a sharp blade stabbing into the body.
"I surrender, I surrender, don't kill me"
"Ahh
"How did you kill it?"
"There's only one leg left, there's a fart to catch back"
"Hey, it's unlucky to catch people here, few of them are complete"
"Keep working, let's stop fishing in troubled waters and pretending to be dead."
"Hmph, it's impossible to pretend to be dead, but tomorrow at dawn, our army will come back to clean up, hurry up and bring the torches, and go back to eat and drink after finishing the work" It seems that the big fat man on his body died and was stabbed again, and Gu Xiaowu was instantly stunned------
Now that the sky is getting brighter and brighter, Gu Xiaowu is very glad that he was not stabbed, and he used a lot of strength to not push the big fat man on his body, and he was stubborn. He is skinny, and he has lost a hand, and he can't really push it. He closed his eyes again, endured the pain in his hand and gathered up his strength for a while, and pulled the good hand out from under the bottom, one leg, the other, and the small body with a big head finally moved out from the bottom. It turned out that this big fat man was still wearing armor all over his body, no wonder he had been separated from himself. Looking up again, he was so frightened that the fat man's head was about to be cut off, and the blood had already dried up. Suddenly, a golden light flashed in front of his eyes, and Gu Xiaowu took a closer look, it was a golden chain that was still half hanging around his neck. Curiously, he tugged at his hand, and it was easy to reach him, along with a white object the size of a child's palm. Is this golden chain made of gold? This white and translucent one should be the jade pendant. Gu Xiaowu thought about it, so he hid this in his clothes first, and now he still thinks about how to run well. Looking up slightly to see that no one was around, he barely stood up with the pain in his hands, and saw the countless dead bodies around him, holding back the churning in his stomach, he really had nothing to vomit. Picking up a broken barrel of a gun, he walked a few steps, looked at the sky, and walked slowly towards the west, where a mountain could be seen in the distance, and he could hide from it.
When the sun officially hung from the sky and the sky was bright, Xiao Wu regretted his choice, because standing in front of him was a pair of armored soldiers on horseback and with guns, and he couldn't even say the words of surrender and sparing his life with trembling teeth. The one in front shouted at the vicious armor soldier and put down his weapon to spare you from death, this young soldier seemed to be injured except for the left hand he was holding, and he couldn't see anything wrong with his whole body, either he pretended to be dead and confused about last night's search or someone escorted him to escape. Seeing that his whole body was trembling, skinny, and his eyes were full of fear and despair, it should be the first one. raised his long knife and was about to send this ignorant and weak guy on the road, but was stopped by a big man next to him.
"Slow, this person can be sent to the back, just one is left behind to make up five hundred, and we don't have to run back to the camp to ask for someone."
"Is that okay? How can he work when his hands are wasted?"
"What are you afraid of, it's just one hand, you can still use it if you tie it, just make up a number, how can there be so many intact ones, so be it, do you still want to find someone to inherit the favor of the king and the three ghosts, and go all the way?"
"Okay, listen to you." After speaking, the big man urged the horse to look at Gu Xiaowu with disdain, closed his eyes and waited for death, his whole body trembled, his left hand moved, grabbed Xiao Wu and walked back. Several people laughed and looked at the big man with the chicken, and rode back together.
Gu Xiaowu was carried all the way in a daze, from the beginning of death and despair to the five organs of the war horse bumped, he finally knew that he was still alive, he didn't know what he would face later, he really missed the good life in the past. Since the parents passed away three years ago, the eldest brother, the second brother and the third brother have all become married, and the sisters-in-law do not want to raise a half-old child at home, and Xiao Wu has never had a full meal. The only half-full meal I ate was half a month ago, when my sister-in-law persuaded me to replace my eldest brother to join the army. Fifteen-year-old Gu Xiaowu no longer shed tears, because he knew that tears would not work. He has experienced the cruelty and ruthlessness on the battlefield, and he is like a rootless duckweed, not knowing where he will end himself.
Half a day later, Gu Xiaowu, who had regained his sense of being alive, was already standing with a group of people and walking in the direction of the mountain range in the distance. Most of them were dressed in Nanfu military uniforms like him, but most of them were already in tatters, and some of them were locals, all of them were listless, some were glad to be alive, some were sad and angry to be alive, some were helpless to be alive, and some were confused to be alive.
Fortunately, they were not mistreated by the soldiers, and they were able to eat a small coarse grain bun and drink a spoonful of gruel a day.
It not only ensures that they have the physical strength to move forward, but also has no spare strength to escape. And looking at the soldiers around them with bright and dangling long knives and riding horses, no one would think that they could run away, and they all resigned themselves to becoming dejected roosters, I heard that they were going to be sent to a place called Mingya Valley to be miners, at least they could live. The captives were organized into small groups of ten, and if one escaped, all ten of them would die, and in this case, no one escaped.
When one day, the large army finally came to a small hill and stopped, Gu Xiaowu looked at the people who stopped in front of him and the dirt road in front of him, they had been walking in the northwest direction for more than ten days, and among the people who were with him, even the strongest thirty-year-old man was extremely pale, let alone others. Although their injuries have healed, malnutrition cannot be changed. Looking at the surrounding soldiers who had already dismounted and stood up, none of them dared to bow their heads and speak, making the captives of about 500 people even more presumptuous.
When the sun rose overhead and the sun dried people's mouths, a young man in a gray robe appeared on the hill, facing Qingxiu, fifteen or sixteen years old, holding a small triangular black flag in his hand. He looked at the five hundred people in front of him, and said to the leader who took the lead, "This time General Hou Peng is here again, why are you so many people this time, don't you want to exchange it for more Yuan Dan?"
The burly man in armor who took the lead hurriedly bowed down and said, "Lord Tong is fine, you misunderstood, how could we have such an idea, this time not only to send people to Mingya Valley, Huangmeiling and Gravel Cliff have expressed the need for manpower, we really don't dare to have the idea of neglecting any party, fortunately, we are still being arrested, next time we will be satisfied."
"I see, is Huangmeiling just sending such a few people this time? Hmph, I don't care about this, I can't see five hundred of your people, you must know that one less person can't be exchanged for a more Yuan Dan. The gray-clothed young man snorted coldly with a slightly gloomy face.
"That's natural, bring it up," said the big man in armor, turning to the soldiers behind him. I saw that two people suddenly behind them, wearing only middle clothes, were tied with their hands and gagged and pushed into the captives. "Alas, it's only to blame that two of you died while guarding, otherwise you wouldn't be needed, you can rest assured, I will show that you are martyred, and I will take care of your relatives"
The big man turned his head to the young man again and smiled, "My lord, this time there are all the people, look at this elixir-----。 ”
"Okay, I won't break my promise when everyone is together, so take it."
A small bottle flew from the young man's hand to the big man in front of him and stopped, although the big man had already taken precautions, he was still startled, hurriedly reached out and held it, and put it in his arms without looking. The gray-clothed young man looked at the big man, pursed his lips, and suddenly shook the small flag in his hand at the five hundred former captives and current slaves three times, and then ignored the eyes of others, and walked directly to the path, but he disappeared after just a few steps. Then I saw the five hundred people move around, as if they were being pulled by something, lined up along the path, and then disappeared one by one in the eyes of the surrounding armor soldiers. The armored man seemed to have seen it a long time ago, and he didn't look shocked. "No matter what you see today, if anyone goes back and talks nonsense, I will serve the military law. The one just now is an immortal master with high mana, and you should know very well the consequences of angering the immortal master, we must have a lot of rewards for completing the task this time, as long as you keep your life. When the fifty armorers heard this, they all looked awe-struck and didn't dare to think about it anymore, and the big man looked at these fifty or so people and thought in his heart that those five hundred people would die inside, and how many of these fifty people would be able to live to the end like himself? It's ruthless on the battlefield!
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