Chapter 70: Letters
Yuan Xiuben presided over the war at the border pass, a month ago, in the border pass, he destroyed the right arm of the king of Ledin with an arrow, and Ledan's 50,000 iron horsemen retreated to the north of the Urkut steppe, and the king's tent was in turmoil.
It was in those days that the old King Di was seriously ill, and the five princes under the tent, except for the third prince Hu Yanhao, did not return, and the remaining four people quarreled outside the king's tent for several days, and the battle for the throne was about to break out, and the Di people withdrew 100,000 iron horsemen to the king's tent to prevent incidents.
The 30th army of Wuhu withdrew half of it within a few days, but the new army in the northwest was about to reach the border pass, and the Rong army, the Una army and the Yueshi army had to retreat from the wind, and the army withdrew for 100 miles and was stationed at the edge of the Urkut steppe, looking at the Daxing border pass from afar, and the confrontation waited.
After Yuan Xiu arranged the border defense, he had time to take time to pick up the new army, he had received a military report from Lu Da, and learned that there were three scouts who called the news of Tanmazhai were missing, and when he came to the rear, he brought a lot of soldiers and generals with him, but he didn't expect to encounter the moon kill who came to Gezhou City for help halfway. At that time, there were still 100 miles away from Gezhou City, and there was a team of horse bandits chasing behind the moon kill, more than a dozen people were killed in front of the elite cavalry of the Northwest Army in an instant, and learned that Shangyu Village was in danger, Yuan Xiu led a hundred elite cavalry pioneers to rush to save people, and saw that the moon killed with a wound in the leg, so he ordered him to follow the army behind slowly.
The military order was difficult to disobey, and the moon kill had to move slowly behind, and only arrived at Shangyu Village in the morning.
He was wounded and needed to be cared for, so he got a military order not to follow the new army to suppress bandits, and when the army passed through Shangyu Village, he came to the village.
There are elite soldiers in the village carrying the corpses of horse bandits, piles of corpses, blood-soaked village roads, and blackened village walls, silently telling the hardships and misery of that day and night. At the entrance of the village, a teenager stood with his hands in his hands, looking into the distance. When the army passed in front of the village, the people of the village who had come out to help cheered, but the young man only looked at the galloping war horse in front of him.
Before the war horse reached the entrance of the village, Yue Kill turned over and dismounted, and he couldn't see that his leg was injured at all.
The young man who was waiting for him at the entrance of the village stood straight, and he couldn't see that he was injured, but the wide robe was covered on his body, and from a distance it seemed that he had lost a lot of weight overnight, and the morning sun fell on the young man's shoulders, and the desolation after the war filled the village road, and the pale cheeks were stained, adding thinness.
The two looked at each other, each speechless, and both alive, which was more reassuring than any words.
But Twilight Qing actually had something to say, so the two of them didn't go back to the village chief's house, where Lu Da, Lao Xiong and Zhang Tong were there, and it was not a good place to talk, so she insisted on going out for a walk this morning despite Qi He's objections. Qi Heqi was ordered to be a military doctor and ordered Lu Da and the others not to learn from her, otherwise don't ask him to change the medicine, Lu Da, Lao Xiong and Zhang Tong didn't come out.
Twilight Qing and Yue Kill went to the slope of the village, a low loess slope, the two of them stood on top, seeing the villagers and elite soldiers carrying the corpses of the horse bandits back and forth, Han Qichu counted the number of people on the side, and sometimes someone passed under the slope, but when they saw that it was Twilight, they didn't care.
While no one was passing by, Twilight said, "Thank you." ”
She thanked for the moon killing.
Bu Xi Huanyuan is in the Bianhe Palace, he can't predict that she is in danger of going to Yu Village, he should have given the right to call the shadow guard to the moon kill, and the person who ordered to kill the hundred archers and bandit leaders in Yu Village last night should be the moon kill, his decision saved their lives, this thank you she must say.
"You don't have to thank me, thank you." Yue Kill glanced at Twilight Qing and knew that these two things couldn't be hidden from her, this woman was too smart, but also too slow!
"Although I am the leader of the Thorn Division, I do not have the right to transfer the Shadow Guard in the Northwest. Before leaving, the Lord gave me the right to act cheaply in the northwest, and also gave me a letter to open when I did not know how to act. Moon Kill had a cold face, his cuffs shook, and a brocade bag was already in his palm.
Twilight took it, and the bag was exquisite, embroidered with rosin and snow, and there was a plain silk inside, and the ink on it was rich, and there were only eight words - if she was in danger, she would come first.
At first glance, the handwriting looks hidden, but the phoenix dancing and dragon flying are hidden at the beginning and end. Seeing words is like seeing people, looking at those eight words, Dusk Qing suddenly felt difficult to move. There were elite soldiers passing by at the bottom of the slope, she held her palm, hung down her cuffs, and kneaded a handicase in her palm into a ball, and the one that was kneaded became a group, but I don't know whose heart it was.
Moon Kill looked at Twilight Qing's expressionless face, she wouldn't know how much effort these Northwest Shadow Guards had spent, but he knew. He knew that once these forces were moved, they would have to be rearranged, so on the way to Gezhou City to report the news, he was a little hesitant to mobilize this part of the forces, and he didn't know how much to keep in order to protect her without hurting His Majesty's efforts in the northwest. In fact, he still regrets opening this bag that night, and the result of opening it is unreserved.
"Ten days to go." Moon Kill is cold and authentic.
Twilight raised her eyes, and was a little confused.
Moon Kill's gaze suddenly became cold, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, "The end of the month!" ”
After saying that, he led the horse down the dirt slope and left.
Twilight stood on the dirt slope and didn't move for a long time. At the end of the month, it was the day when the moon killed the regular delivery of news to the Bianhe, and when he was in the mountains of Qingzhou, he said that if she had anything to say to Bu Xihuan, she could write to him. However, at the end of that month, she did not write.
The letter was still in Twilight's hand, and the moon kill didn't want to go back, and when Twilight raised her eyes again, she saw that he had gone far away, and that direction was the village chief's house.
Twilight was in no hurry to go back, she blew the wind outside for a while, and only returned to the village chief's house when her mood calmed down.
As soon as I walked to the door, I saw that in the courtyard, Zhang Tong and Yue Kill quarreled.
"Why should I share a room with you?" Zhang Tong asked.
"I think you're pleasing to the eye." Month Kill Answer.
Zhang Tongqi smiled, looking at him pleasing to the eye? It's because he doesn't like it!
General Yuan went to the bandit village this morning, and General Lu's room was empty, this kid came back just in time to be in the same room with General Lu, but he had to be in a room with him! Think he doesn't know what he has in his heart? He just didn't want him to live in the same room with her! He had to wonder, did this kid also know her identity as a woman?
Yue Kill had a cold face, Zhang Tong really knew that she was a woman, otherwise why would he have to share a room with her? Lecher!
Qi He was not in the courtyard, and after he went out in the twilight, he carried the medicine basket out of the village to find an herb that grew under the Yellow Rock. Without him watching, Lu Da and Lao Xiong took the opportunity to move their muscles and bones in the yard, although the two of them were injured, but after many years of military camp life, they felt uncomfortable if they didn't move their muscles and bones for a day, and as a result, they saw Yue Ci come back and quarreled with Zhang Tong because of which house they lived.
The two of them were watching the excitement, and when they looked up and saw Twilight coming back, the courtyard was suddenly quiet.
Twilight came in with a cold face, as if she hadn't seen the scene of the quarrel, walked past Moon Kill and Zhang Tong, opened the door, and entered the house.
Bang!
The door was closed, and the fire in the courtyard was suddenly poured with cold water.
In the room, Twilight sat at a round table, with a piece of thick ink and yellow paper in front of her.
When she was in the mountains of Qingzhou, the camp tent was simple, pen and ink were not necessary for the march, the march route was confidential, and she was not allowed to write letters on the way, even if she wanted to write letters, she had no pen and ink. Although she knew that Moon Kill must be hiding there, she hadn't looked for him.
Twilight picked up the pen, and it didn't fall for a long time.
What to write?
Thank you? Qianli sent a word of thanks, she didn't think she was such a boring person.
Military newspapers? Someone had to do it, and she didn't feel like she needed to do it.
Complaining? She couldn't learn sensuality in her two lives combined.
The pen was lifted, dropped and mentioned, and I always felt that there was something I wanted to say, but it couldn't be written, and I struggled for a long time, and finally lost the pen.
It's just a letter, how can it be so much harder to write than a corpse sheet?
No matter how unrecognizable the corpse is, she can find clues and sort out her clues, but it's just a letter, how can she not sort out the grass-like feeling in her heart?
"Tuesday Egg!" Lu Da shouted in the courtyard, "You kid came out to share a room with Lao Tzu, and asked these two boys to quarrel!" ”
Twilight frowned and asked, "Can the general snore at night when he sleeps?" ”
"What guy doesn't snore when he sleeps?" Lu Da also frowned.
"Then let Mo Chang share a room with the general, and I will share a room with Han Qichu." With that, Twilight closed the door and entered the house again.
In the yard, Lao Xiong coughed embarrassedly, "General, let's stay in the same room, Han Qichu didn't fall asleep last night, cough!" ”
Lu Da was depressed, "Stinky boy, I dislike Lao Tzu!" ”
Twilight came to the table, picked up the pen again, and a few strokes became a book, and when the ink was dry, he folded it and went out the door, and said to Moon Kill, "You come in and take a look at this house, and if you agree, I'll give it to you." ”
Zhang Tong's face suddenly darkened, and he glared at Du Qing with murderous anger, did she really call him to share a room with Yue Ci? He knew that she was a woman, and there were always many inconveniences in sharing a room with a man, and he had no problem if she didn't want to share a room with him, but if he wanted him to share a room with Yue Ci, he would rather live with Han Qichu! But thinking that if he was in the same room with Han Qichu, then she would have to live in the same room with Yue Ci, which made him even more unbearable. After thinking about it, he had to endure it.
When Moonkill entered the house, Twilight handed him the letter in her hand, took out the bloody clothes she had changed last night out the door, walked to the back of the house, lit a fire, and burned the clothes.
At night, Qi He changed the medicine for a few people, but Twilight still refused to insist on coming by herself, Qi He said angrily at the door: "Your injury, don't blame me for not reminding you, if the skin and flesh around the wound are not clean, the injury is difficult to care for well, if there is a problem in the future, don't say that I didn't treat you!" ”
Having said that, he still put the medicine bag on the ground at the door, compared to the one pack of medicine last night, there was one more bag tonight, which he picked ten miles back and forth along the yellow sandstone today, to prevent the wound from being treated cleanly and festering.
Twilight opened the door and came out, saw that there was an extra pack of medicine, and said, "Thank you, don't worry, I'm not good at medicine, but removing meat is a profession, but it's dead human flesh." ”
She meant that Qi He didn't have to worry, but when she heard this, Qi He's ears only felt that she was looking down on his ability to clean his wounds, and the young man's face turned dark, he snorted angrily, and walked away.
Han Qichu smiled bitterly in the room and came out and said, "Brother Zhou's words, I'm afraid that Doctor Qi has misunderstood." ”
"In the beginning." At this time, the door of the next room opened, and Zhang Tong came out and said, "Go out for a walk with me, stay in the same room with that kid, suffocate me!" ”
"Brother Zhang!" Han Qichu glanced at Zhang Tong's room, Yue Ci was there, and when he said this, the two would only get more and more discordant.
Zhang Tongcai didn't care if the moon kill was painful or not, and pulled Han Qichu out.
Twilight knew that Zhang Tong was helping her get rid of Han Qichu so that she could change the medicine for her injuries, so she closed the door and hurriedly went to change it.
The courtyard was silent, and Moon Kill stood by the window, his face sinking like water. He wasn't there that night in the village, but he sent the shadow guard of the assassin department, knowing that she was wounded by a knife and that she couldn't die, so he listened to Yuan Xiu's military order and didn't rush to come. He was dealing with the aftermath of the assassin's dispatch in the back, and he only came this morning, and he didn't know the details of her injuries, but seeing that she went to meet him at the entrance of the village this morning, and moved freely, he thought that she was not seriously injured.
Moon Kill stood in front of the window for a while, looked back at the pen and ink on the table, turned around, and picked up the pen and book. In a few moments, a secret letter entered the whistle.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Tong was asleep, and Yue Kill got up and walked out of the room.
Dui Qing and others stayed in Shangyu Village for five days, and the military reported that the bandit village had been leveled.
The new army marched forcibly, and on the third day arrived at the bandit village to join the Northwest Army, Yuan Xiu personally came to pick up the new army, and sat in the big tent in the army, commanding the suppression of bandits, and the 50,000 new army rejoiced and their morale boiled.
The leader of the bandit village has been killed, and the Northwest Army has found out the secret passage of the village through the horse bandits who were captured that night three days before the arrival of the new army, and the secret passage has been blocked in the past few days, so that no one can leave the village.
But there are old and young women who are imprisoned in the village, as well as middle-aged men who are used as laborers, and more than 5,000 horse bandits in the bandit village are leaderless.
The horse bandits escorted a group of old and young women to the sentry tower in front of the gate of the village, forcing the Northwest Army to retreat, otherwise they would kill people on the sentry tower.
For a while, on the sentry tower, the old and the young were crying, and the women all had messy hair and clothes. A horse bandit grabbed a woman in front of him, insulted the woman in front of the Northwest Army, and threatened that if he did not withdraw from the army, he would be happy in front of tens of thousands of troops, and he would be a merry ghost before he died. Another bandit carried a boy of three or two years old and hung him from the watchtower, threatening to throw him from the watchtower for a quarter of an hour if he did not retreat.
The Northwest Army has guarded the border for many years, and the people love it, if they withdraw from the army today, let these old and young women be trapped in the bandit den and be humiliated, they will have no shame to face the people of the Northwest in the future. But if he doesn't retreat, he will see the woman being bullied and the child being thrown to death, and he will be scolded by the people.
All the generals were indignant when they looked at the situation of the sentry tower, but they were in a dilemma, and they all looked at the big tent of the Chinese army.
In the big tent, one person went out, galloped alone on a prancing horse, passed ten thousand troops, and went straight to the sentry tower!
On the sentry tower, the horse bandits were shocked, only to see the man in red robe and silver armor, galloping like a splashing wind, not out of the army, an arrow flew and groaned, the scorching sun and yellow wind, and the thunder was heard! The horse bandit who was hiding behind the woman felt in a trance that the arrows were like flowing fire, and the fierce wind blew away the woman's bun, and the splashed hair covered his eyes in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, there was snow from between the hairs.
One arrow, it is red!
The horse bandit fell straight upright, and the horse bandit carrying the young child next to him was startled, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the child fell off the sentry tower with a roar.
Wan Jun inhaled, but saw that the figure of the lonely horse had passed the military formation, and with a copy of his hand, he grabbed the spear in the hand of a young general in front of the military formation, jumped up, pointed at the horse's back, and threw the spear! The silver spear pierced the yellow wind, and wore the child's clothes and nailed it straight into the sentry wall!
Zheng!
A whistling sound shook the hearts of the ten thousand troops, and in a flash, Yuan Xiu was already under the sentry wall, the sleeves of his robe were flying, like a strong wind, the spear swished out, and others rolled up in the air, took the spear in one hand, fished out the young child with the other, and pointed to the sentry wall a little on his toes, straight to the sentry tower!
Before anyone arrived, a spear was sent, and a shot pierced the enemy's jaw!
The horse bandit who threatened to throw the young child off the sentry tower had blood blooming in his jaw, black blood gushed out of his mouth, and before he could breathe, Yuan Xiu's spear flicked, and the person was thrown directly off the sentry tower!
Three zhang sentry tower, people landed, yellow sand rose, flying blood splashed!
Ten thousand troops were shocked, the horse bandits were shocked, Yuan Xiu held the young child on the sentry tower, the spear swept, smashed a large number of horse bandits, looked back, saw the man's black hair and snow crown, his eyes were cold and piercing, and he shouted: "Attack!" ”
The cry of the 10,000 armies shook the sky, the Northwest Elite Cavalry went to the Mazhai Secret Road, the new army attacked the Zhaimen, 10,000 people attacked the city, and the Zhaimen was knocked open in an instant!
The horse bandits in the village were shocked by Yuan Xiu's domineering act of attacking the village without saying a word, and when they saw that the gate of the village was broken, they couldn't help but scatter and flee. The new army swarmed up, pursued and slashed and killed, and the huge bandit village saw a mountain of corpses in the sea of blood in an instant.
The new army, which had never killed anyone, saw blood for the first time, and there was no expected fear and fear, and everyone's hearts were filled with the indignation of the old and young women who were held hostage by the horse bandits, and they were also filled with a kind of excitement and boiling blood. Everyone still seems to have the afterimage of the sentry tower scene in front of them, that is their commander, who went out of the border to personally welcome the new army, thinking that he was hearty and friendly, but he saw the heroic and domineering.
He did not negotiate, did not compromise, did not even say a word to the horse bandits, and only told them with a scene from the sentry tower that the Northwest Army would not accept threats -- the army guarding the country could not negotiate terms with the enemy, not a word could be discussed, and a single step could not be retreated!
People, save! Enemy, Zai!
If you can do it, it's the Northwest Army!
In this battle, the Northwest Army did not come out with a single soldier, only blocked the secret passage, and only relied on the new army, killing 4,372 horse bandits, capturing 5,940 war horses, and rescuing 460 people, including the three missing groups of Northwest Army scouts.
The New Army sharpened its sword with this battle!
The morale was unprecedentedly high, but no one forgot that the six people who went to Shangyu Village to explore the road made great contributions to the great victory in this battle.
These six people, Lu Da, Lao Xiong, Zhang Tong, Han Qichu, Yue Ci, and Tuesday Dan.
It was she who pointed out that there was a trick in Shangyu Village, it was she who saw that there was a difference between the father and son of the village chief, and it was she who uncovered the secret of the horse village, which led to today's battle and today's victory.
Few people know about this, but the news of the lonely people in the village has spread in the army.
Five people, a day and a night of hard fighting, killed 300 horses, 824 horse bandits, and wounded 230 people! In the army, they don't recognize their identities, they only recognize their fists, such numbers are heartbreaking, and such feats are admirable!
Now that the new army has arrived in the northwest, everyone knows in their hearts that the day they arrive at the border pass is the time to reward them for their meritorious deeds.
There was still a war at the border pass, and Yuan Xiu could not stay in the rear, and the army set off the next day after breaking through Mazhai.
Twilight Qing and the other six people waited for the army in front of Shangyu Village, and when they returned to the camp, the army was jubilant, as if welcoming the return of a hero.
Yuan Xiu led the elite cavalry of the Northwest Army and 50,000 new troops to send the rescued people into Gezhou City, passed Gezhou City in the welcome and cheers of the people, passed through Shangling, Xiling, Luobei Chongcheng, along Anyang, Chengjia and other nine counties, lasted half a month, and entered Jialan Pass.
On the day when the army arrived at Jialan Pass, more than a dozen secret reports were rushed thousands of miles through the dark piles and entered the Bianhe Palace.
Off topic -
Don't hit me, you know what to write tomorrow when you see the last sentence, right?
For the sake of His Majesty finally being released from the cold palace, please treat the eggs gently, and don't smash them