51 The Third Fire Companion (2)
Chen Jiezu is from Yingchuan County and is a well-known local Haoqiang clan. Chen Jie's great-grandfather and grandfather all adhered to the traditions and ethics of the Han people until their family was incorporated into the Shifu Army.
The Chen family has always had no sense of belonging to the Wei State, a country established by the Xianbei people, but they also did not have the courage to flee south to mingle in the country established by the Han people in the south, so when the Chen family was incorporated into the Shifu soldiers and even given the Xianbei surname because of their wealth, it became very ironic.
In the early years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Great Khan would also put some wealthy and literate Han families into the military household, which was a supreme honor in the eyes of the Xianbei people, but in the eyes of the Han people, this was just a means for the Xianbei people to fight wars and ask for money, to give advice, and to ask the Han people to help supervise the construction of hundreds of workers.
Chen Jie's grandfather chose to commit a crime in order to avoid the treatment of being assigned to a military household, and he originally thought that sinners were not allowed to enlist in the army, but the military government not only did not cancel his family's military household status, but also lowered their family's original status from the Yingyang Mansion soldiers to three ranks, and became a military household like "miscellaneous soldiers" in other people's mouths.
This was a complete blow to the Chen family. Chen Jie's father and uncles were later called to go to war, but because of this incident, they were very despised in the army, and even if they were literate and understood the art of war, they were depressed day by day in the disdainful eyes of everyone.
His father's nose was cut off on the battlefield, but he came back safely. His uncles were dead and crippled, and none of them ended well.
You can't do anything clever. Doing the wrong thing in order to avoid suffering losses will eventually lead to a catastrophe.
His parents taught him since he was a child, and he didn't dare to forget it for a day.
When he also reached the age of enlistment, he resolutely chose the most dangerous Black Mountain City as the beginning of his military career. This is the frontline of Dawei and Rouran, countless men have won honor and wealth from here, and countless men have died here, becoming "warriors" who fight against Rou and die.
Whatever the outcome, Chen Jie did not resist.
The mistakes made by our ancestors due to fear of war and cowardice will be washed away by him.
Chen Jie noticed Mulan and was attracted by his archery skills.
Most of the Great Wei were cavalry, and the military households were also responsible for helping the army raise horses, so it was not uncommon for people with good riding skills to be good. But there are not many knights who can ride and shoot on horseback.
No matter how conceited Chen Jie was about his martial arts and how much he wanted to make a contribution, the reality suddenly destroyed his self-righteousness:
――On the battlefield, sometimes it is useless to rely on martial arts alone.
The Rouran people are not vulnerable, on the contrary, because Rouran often fights in his own country, and all the Rouran soldiers live on the spoils of war, and these people are disgusting like locusts.
The first time he went out in battle, he was surrounded by the Rourans who came from the flank, outnumbering them by several times. He and his partners fought hard, but they could only barely maneuver, the Rouran man with the wolf's head hat in the opposing formation was like a bad monster, and after a while, he commanded the Rouran people to kill this, and commanded them to shoot that one at once, seeing that many high-spirited robes in the recruit camp died one by one, Chen Jie's chest gushed out a breath of blood......
Lao Tzu is going to kill that wolf-headed man even if he dies!
You can't die so aggrieved!
Chen Jie used a weapon that was rare in the army - the horse lance.
This kind of weapon looks simple, in fact, it takes three or four years to make it, and the lance may crack at the end, and most people will not make such weapons at all.
Chen Jie's lance was prepared at home from the beginning of his art, and he spent ten years with him, dancing on the horse, it was really cold, fast like the wind, and he also got out of the limelight in the new barracks because of his martial arts and distinctive weapons, and he started from the fire chief at the beginning.
And now, the owner of this horse lance is fighting to the death!
With red eyes, he stared straight at the wolf-headed leader of Rouran, and almost with a fierce momentum of death, he moved in his direction step by step.
As the saying goes, the strong are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal are afraid of the dead, which is probably the case. The potential of people when they are cornered is simply astonishing!
"Is that kid crazy?" Several Rouran soldiers looked at Chen Jie, who was still resisting because he was injured, "He is looking for death?"
"Whether it's death ......or not," the squad leader raised his bow, "enough of playing with it, it's time for him to die."
"I want his leather armor, it looks like a good skin!"
"I want his weapon!"
Chen Jie lifted his horse lance with one hand and stared intently at the wolf-headed leader in the distance. He was waiting, waiting for an opportunity to throw out the horse lance in his hand!
His buddies knew what he was going to do, and they all saw his ability to "fly a lance" in the army. The recruits who were □□like cats and mice by the Rouran people like cat and mouse were also aroused, and they desperately covered him to continue to move forward.
For a while, more and more Rouran squads noticed this situation, and they sped up the speed of cutting heads and stripping things, and began to rush towards the few remaining Wei troops.
Military merit!
Armor!
Weapons!
How can such a large piece of fat be swallowed by others!
Closer, closer......
Sou!
Chen Jie took a deep breath, twisted his arms heavily, and threw his horse lance out!
"Protect the Centurion!"
"Kill that kid!"
With the expectation of dozens of people, Ma Lance flew towards the general of the Rouran people who were a hundred paces away.
Then the wolf-headed man took a few steps back from his horse, and was supposed to shoot. [,! The lance of his head came up in a beautiful parabola and pinned his horse's head to the ground at once.
The horse fell with a bang, and the wolf-headed general rolled twice on the ground with a frightened expression, dragged a slave in front of him, and climbed onto his replacement horse.
"Kill the kid who threw the gun!"
"Break them all up for me!"
Didn't hit!
I didn't hit it!
And the worms!
Chen Jie and the people with the fire all showed desperate expressions.
Suddenly, the sound of the earth shaking became louder and louder, to the point that it made people's eardrums bulge.
It's the sound of iron hooves pulling at the earth. There are many people in Rouran who don't nail horseshoes, and they can make such a sound, and □□ out of ten are cavalry from the Wei army.
"Charge with me!"
After a high-pitched and sharp horn sound, a banner of Great Wei appeared at the end of the dirt slope.
Saved!
As long as the general who holds out to that side charges down, he will be alive!
The sudden reinforcements inspired everyone's fighting spirit, and the Rouran people liked to besiege and kill, but they were the most resistant to head-on battles. They have fought with Great Wei for countless years, and they know what kind of madmen this opponent has.
Born to fight, die in battle.
"Let's go!" The wolf-headed general looked at the banner in front of him, "Retreat!" Fall back! "
"Let's go?" There were a few Rouran centurions who were reluctant to leave. This is the last Wei army on this side, and it is also the most well-equipped team.
The wolf-headed general glanced at the centurion with the eyes of a dead man, and turned around and went first.
In the distance, Mulan, who found that the recruits were surrounded, immediately organized her team to charge. The fate that had just appeared on the recruits was like a reversal to the Rouran people.
Just on the dirt slope where the Rouran people appeared, the team led by Mulan plunged down into the battlefield like a sharp sword, and the offensive composed of swords, guns, swords and halberds was like a huge killing machine, ruthlessly strangling the opponent.
The figure of the friendly army seemed to have reached their side in a moment, except for the wolf-headed general, who had already turned around and left with many people, most of the Rouran soldiers still stayed.
After all, their number is only half of theirs, and judging by the flag, it is not a well-known general, it is estimated that it is just a miscellaneous general.
There are many such generals in the Wei army, what a tiger head and a lion face are loyal, brave and benevolent, and sound majestic, but in fact, it is possible that they are just small generals with less than five hundred people.
But they soon found out that they were wrong.
When the leader of the general slashed and slashed, the terrifying force almost split a man in half. As soon as the cavalry behind him approached his allies, they immediately turned around, took off their bows and arrows, and began to shoot arrows.
The long figure was still mercilessly slashing the enemy in front of the battle, and where it passed, a long carpet of flesh and blood made of corpses soon piled up.
The people of Rouran were frightened, and they wanted to run.
Mulan quickly led the elite to the enemy, and by this time the enemy leader had already run far away. At a glance, she saw the lance piercing the horse's neck, and the black lance was like lightning from the sky, running through the horse's head and diagonally through the horse's neck.
She took control of her horse, and leaned down as she swept past the dead horse, and pulled up the lance.
The long lance starts, and the satisfying feel makes Mulan can't help but praise it.
"Good weapon!"
Her weapons deteriorate quickly, and she replaces them almost every time she fights with a white knuckle. Her strength is too great, and while she is causing harm to others, she is also destroying the integrity of her own weapons.
The Rouran people have been defeated, and those who have not gone have been left forever.
Now is the time for the Wei army to "clean up" the battlefield.
Cut off the heads, mend the undead with a few knives, strip off their armor, and search the corpses for everything they can take with them. Bury the enemy? That's redundant stuff. Vultures and wolves will gnaw at their bones.
For Paoze, all they have to do is dig a deep pit on the spot, throw the corpses of their own people into it, and then stead the ground so that neither the beasts nor the enemy can find Paoze's body.
This process has been experienced many times for Mulan's team, so the process of "cleaning" the battlefield is fast and methodical, like a locust crossing the border.
For Chen Jie, most of the buried ones were the robes of the black battalion that fought with them, and what they had to do when they were rescued was to wait for the reinforcements to pick things up first, and then come back to "clean" again.
Chen Jie and his fellow firemates had already lost their strength, and at this moment they were lying on the ground and looking at this team lazily.
"Although I want to thank this support army for rescuing, but the main army of our right army should be pursuing the Rouran people now, why are they on the way back to the camp?"
The recruits were ordered to return to the camp, while the regular ones continued the pursuit. On the way back to the camp, they encountered the enemy who had set a trap, because the vanguard army who came out of the camp together was still fighting in the distance, so everyone was mentally prepared to die in battle.
"Needless to say, it's probably that group again." Tonghuo, who knew the reason, said mysteriously: "It's the Hua General under General Wang, he rarely pursues the Rouran people to farther places, and he never goes deep alone."
"They all called him 'the cowardly general.'"
"Cowardly? I don't think he's cowardly at all! "
"He once said that he was afraid of death. And, I heard him say to his soldiers, he doesn't. [,! I like to change my men frequently, so everyone has to save their lives."
"That's fine."
"It's not right to be a soldier to be afraid of death! How can you kill the enemy if you are afraid of death! "
Chen Jie's hands and feet were soft and had no strength, listening to the discussion of his companions, he looked towards the "General Hua" on the other side of the battlefield.
He sat up with a swoop!
What was he holding with an admiring look on his face?
That's not his lance!
"Chen Jie, where are you going? It's time for the regular army to clean up the battlefield." One of the same fires tugged at his shirt worriedly, not letting him act recklessly.
"I'm not going to 'clean' up. I've picked up my horse lance by the general, and I've got to go and get it back!" Chen Jie's most precious thing is that weapon, if he hadn't thought he would die just now, he wouldn't have let that weapon go!
"You're stupid, such a good lance, I won't pay you back if I change it. What's more, if you die, General Hua should take everything away." Tonghuo whispered to him, "Anyway, if you don't come back, you might as well sell it, just say that this weapon is yours, but you are willing to give it to him. Although he is a 'timid general', he is born with divine powers, and he is a rare warrior in the army."
"Why did I send him?" Chen Jie's eyes widened in disbelief, "That's my horse lance!" "
"How do you prove it?" The same fire gritted his teeth and persuaded him, "Don't get into trouble with him. Even if we all die here, the team that avenged us will be rewarded."
"You...... You mean?" Chen Jie's eyes widened, "For the sake of a horse lance, we have to be ...... by our own people What's going on in your head! "
He always thought that this comrade was weird, and he was usually very stingy in his actions, but he didn't know that he was crazy to such a point!
If they wanted to benefit, they just waited outside the battlefield for them to die before charging, why did they have to jump out so early and risk their lives to kill the enemy?!
Stay away from him in the future.
"If you don't believe me, it's okay, don't pull us to be unlucky!" Seeing that he was a little angry, the same fire scolded him in his heart.
"If the general asks us whose lance it is, we won't help you testify!"
Hearing this, the Tonghuo looked at each other, and a few of them shouted: "Weigui, isn't this okay?"
"Hmph, do you think everyone in the army is a bodhisattva?"
Chen Jie was panicked by this same fire talk, and as soon as he turned around, he ran to Mulan in the middle of the battlefield.
Unlike the others, she didn't pick anything but her own. This was originally the prerogative of military generals, just as the rescued people had to wait for the reinforcements to be selected first, and the generals who led the army also had the right to pick the spoils of war first.
But he leaned against his horse, with a look of impatience on his face, waiting for his men to do what they had to do
It's just that he still holds his long lance in his hand.
Chen Jie's face was covered with blood at this time, and there were enemies and his own. The appearance of such a group of guys who couldn't see clearly stumbling towards him was really unexpected, so the lieutenants around Mulan immediately drove forward and stopped him.
"Stop! What people! "
"If you have something to say, just stand over there and say it!"
Hua Mulan looked up and found that this blood-stained soldier was the most ferocious man she had seen fighting on the dirt slope.
Because he was impressed, he didn't show an arrogant expression like the others, but just looked at him with slightly cold eyes:
"What's the matter with finding Ben?"
Chen Jie felt hopeless when he saw that Mulan was not in a hurry to loot the loot. The general apparently disdained the ragged armor of these wriggling men, and only loved his weapons.
In such a situation, how could he return his horse lance?
And the courage he mustered up before, and the idea that he wanted to use actions to prove that the same fire was nonsense, was also vanished when he saw Mulan's lingering murderous aura.
It's not that he's timid, it's that he really can't hold his head up. Even the air around him seemed to solidify into substance, and his head and face were covered with cold sweat.
Chen Jie opened his mouth under the terrifying momentum of the generals in front of him: "No...... Nothing ......."
Chen Jie, you're a coward!
Woo woo, but the way he just split that wriggling centurion is so scary! If he asks for a horse lance, will he be cut down too?!
Mulan was stunned by his answer.
Immediately, she smiled knowingly and softened her voice a little.
"Say whatever you want, out of the way."
Every time she charges and kills an enemy, she will enter a mysterious realm, and her mental power will be extremely concentrated, which makes the enemy's speed slow down in her eyes. The sequelae of concentrating on killing the enemy is that this state of murderous aura will dissipate for a long time, which has no big impact on her, but this evil aura will indeed scare many people.
In fact, she won't be in a good mood after she kills someone.
But even so, she firmly remembered not to be angry with others.
Everyone has a bad mood, but letting their feelings be vented on others is a move that is more embarrassing than failure.
The fear in Chen Jie's heart became more and more intense. Anyone who sees a murderous general suddenly shows an evil smile that can scare children to death (?), and when he asks others what is going on, he doesn't dare to speak, right?
"You're its old master? Believe it or not I let. [,! It's become your 'relic', huh?"
In Chen Jie's heart, this general looked like he would say this sentence in the next moment.
So he coaxed.
"I, I, I...... I just wanted to thank you......" he stumbled, "if you hadn't come, we'd all die here......"
Mulan won't be fooled by his words. When she enters the state of "entering the martial arts", her attention is also keen.
So she realized that the creep was probably here for something else.
will risk running into the official to come to her to talk, and it will not be as simple as "thanks".
Maybe it was because Hua Mulan looked at him too seriously, and Chen Jie's stuttering became stricter.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm leaving!"
"You ......" Mulan frowned, "Are you ......"
"I'm leaving!"
"This lance, isn't it yours? Because you keep glancing this way."
Mulan spoke the words.
It's over!
It's time to kill people!
It's time to take it!
For a moment, Chen Jie's mind was filled with all kinds of terrible speculations made by the same fire.
"This lance is mine!" Chen Jie's body trembled with nervousness. But you're the right fit for this lance, so I'm willing to ......."
"Take it."
"Huh?"
Hua Mulan tossed the horse lance in her hand with pity. Such weapons are rare on the side of Montenegro.
"Take it. I've had doubts before. The Rouran people prefer to use weapons such as clubs and hammers, and the horse lance is a common use of Han generals."
"The Han people often say, 'A gentleman does not take the favor of others', since it is your weapon, then it is with you." Mulan threw the horse lance in her hand.
For her, this lance, although easy to use, is no better than a mace and a thick iron bar.
"Pick it up!"
"Huh? Well! Well! "
Chen Jie hurriedly took the weapon that Mulan threw from not far away, and the moment the horse lance got into his hand, he couldn't help but hold it into his arms.
This is his weapon. It's a weapon that he's spent ten years and the whole family has worked hard to build for him. He also wanted to use it to make a career and glorify the lintel, what was he thinking about just now, and he actually had the idea of giving it away?
Is it because he thinks that this flower general is the one who deserves to use it compared to himself?
Or is his momentum too terrifying?
Chen Jie stared at it again, but felt that the murderous aura in this flower general's body had been restrained, and even his eyebrows were much calmer.
He heard General Hua smile and say:
"Such a good weapon, don't leave it in the future."
"Yes! Be! "The emotion of being lost and regained is him, and he is in tears." Never again! ".
This may just be an episode in Mulan's military career, but for Chen Jie, his life and values are tantamount to earth-shaking changes.
He retrieved his weapon in his skeptical and incredulous eyes, and laughed loudly at how he had the heart of a gentleman with the belly of a villain.
For Chen Jie, what he got back was not only the horse lance, but also the trust between the robes and the general's love for the soldiers.
It is faith, but also gratitude to the world.
His first battle was so hard, so dangerous, but he still got more precious than the spoils.
Why didn't his grandfather want to join the army?
It's such a beautiful place.
Since then, Chen Jie has begun to pay attention to this "General Hua", and he will enthusiastically show General Hua every time he comes to the black camp to train recruits, just so that he can notice him.
It's just that I don't know if I was too miserable in that battle, General Hua swept his eyes over him several times, but none of them recognized him as the little soldier who was returned to the lance.
Chen Jie was a little disappointed, but more unwilling.
He was going to get stronger, to be stronger, to come up to him and give his name.
He tried his best to get in front of her, whether it was "torn" by his hands, or he was ridiculed for being a flattering person, he didn't care.
"My name is Chen Jie, please let me follow you!"
Mulan rubbed her forehead weakly.
Here we go again.
"Chen Jie, I've rejected you many times. You are very brave, but I don't want to be a desperate warrior, as long as someone can protect your own life. You're crazy when you start fighting, and everyone like you wants to be taken under your command, so why do you have to put so much effort into my escort?"
"Because ......"
Chen Jie thought for a moment and shouted out in the most simple language.
"Mark, I admire you for being a man!"
……
Mulan was stunned.