Chapter 2: Lin Dark

His name is Li Po, and his nickname is Xue Nu.

This is the name given to him by several old soldiers in the village, and the surname is also with the military leader Li Chengshun.

As for what his surname was before, no one investigated it, not even himself, and he didn't care too much.

His origin is very peculiar, only he knows, but this has become a secret hidden in the deepest part of his heart, and I am afraid that he will not take the initiative to tell others about it in this life.

There were three veterans in the stockade, and one winter in the first year of the Great Cause, when he went out to hunt, he was "picked up" back to the village.

Five spring and autumn seasons have passed, and there are only four people left in the military village where more than a dozen people were stationed at the beginning, three old soldiers and a teenager of unknown origin who also suffered from the disease of lost soul.

In the past five years, the teenager has gradually grown up, and under the guidance of the three veterans, he has completely integrated into this kind of life in the border fortress where there is no tomorrow today.

The military village belongs to the Yunzhong Guard, and in terms of military status, no matter how hard the military leader tries, he has not given the boy a serious background.

In fact, after two years of great cause, and the governor of the state, Yang Liang, the king of Han, conspired against the rebellion, the so-called cloud guarding and capturing the mansion, how it was organized, and who the general was, even a few old soldiers couldn't say it clearly.

They were requisitioned here to detect the enemy's situation, the enemy is, of course, the northern Turkic Khanate, in fact, in the young man's opinion, this military fortress is the outpost of the Great Wall, once the Turks come to attack, Mao doesn't care, everyone washes their necks and waits for death.

Well, it can be lit to make the defenders of the Great Wall have a defense, and maybe that's the only value of its existence.

However, now, the Turkic Qimin Khan is very respectful to the Great Sui, and I heard that he also wants to sweep the courtyard for the Tian Khan, so the border between the two countries has been truces for many years.

The military village is almost in abandonment.

The others returned south one after another, and before the arrival of the military order, these people abandoned the village and left, which was almost equivalent to the act of fleeing soldiers.

However, it is not clear what will happen to them, in the final analysis, whether this stockade is still within the establishment of the Sui army, no one can say.

Just like the army leader Li Chengshun every time he went to the defenders in the south, he couldn't find the way, or he didn't want to talk about food, and he didn't even have anyone willing to talk to him more.

If there is no official, no one wants to take care of it, and you are left to fend for yourself, this is the situation of this military village.

Moreover, it is not that the three old soldiers miss the old and don't want to leave, but that the three of them are righteous brothers, and they have been friends for decades, vowing to live and die together.

The second child was sick and bedridden for a few years, and he was not good at walking, and the other two people died of the idea of going south and returning to their hometown, and accompanied the second child to stay in this military village.

This stay really fulfilled their oath.

Speaking of which, in the past few years, the military village has been regarded as having no quarrel with the world, and no one wants to come here to find trouble with them.

But after three years of great cause, he drove the northern tour.

Hundreds of thousands of troops trekked north, with great prestige, and finally stationed in Yulin, where the Turkic Qimin Khan led the nobles of the steppe to worship at the bottom of the steps, like slaves, and was extremely obedient.

With such a momentum, no one in the past and present emperors can match it.

But His Majesty the complacent Emperor will not pay attention to how much manpower and material resources are spent on such a trip, in fact, no matter how much the Great Sui is, just talking about the Khan of Qimin, he will offer countless cattle and sheep to catch the wind for the Khan of Heaven for the army to eat.

And where do these cattle and sheep come from?

It can be said that the Turkic subordinate tribes along the Great Wall have been looted a lot, and many tribes have been hungry in recent years.

Naturally, they did not dare to fight with the Turkic tribes, nor did they dare to go south to ask for food from the Great Sui like those powerful steppe ancestors.

So, with red eyes, they began to swallow each other and fight for everything worth fighting for.

And the military village where Li Po was located also suffered from the pond fish.

In fact, what Li Po didn't know was that in the fifth year of the Great Cause, that is, last year, the Turkic Qimin Khan had died of illness, the Turkic tribes were in mourning, and the steppe tribes were also in a short period of chaos.

After that, the Turks established Ashnash Boxin, the eldest son of Qimin Khan, as the Great Khan, and the Khan began to be completed.

When Emperor Yang Guang of Sui was touring the north, he noticed the envoy of the Goryeo State beside the Qimin Khan, but he never noticed that behind the Qimin Khan, there was a gloomy and cold gaze full of haze.

And the fact that the Great Khan, who had always felt that his father Khan was too weak for the Sui people and was deeply ashamed, ascended to the peak of the power of the Turkic Khanate, which also meant that the relationship between the two great powers of the north and the south quickly fell to the freezing point.

The chaos in the steppes in the clouds was, in fact, largely the result of the indulgence of the new Turkic royal court.

Li Po naturally didn't know this, he was already very familiar with the tribes around the military village, but he still couldn't tell where these bastards who attacked the military village came from and which tribe they belonged to.

The three veterans never gave up, and the opportunity to escape was not worth mentioning in their eyes, which also made Li Po truly realize for the first time that the righteousness of men is not illusory.

Li Po didn't want to escape, their lives were picked up, a few old soldiers could sacrifice their lives for righteousness, and he wouldn't just leave.

Several old soldiers have treated him like a nephew for a few years, and he will repay him with life and death, no big deal.

It was the military leader Li Chengshun who kicked him out of the gate of the village, gave him the strongest old horse in the village, and beat and scolded him to run for his life.

But even so, Li Po didn't go far, hid on the side, waited for an opportunity to re-enter the village, and killed several people, so he took the road and fled.

He was already hard-hearted, and he had long been accustomed to seeing life and death, and when he saw that the three old soldiers had all died in battle, he had no worries and concentrated on his own life.

Now, once you enter the mountains and forests, you will be like a fish entering water, completely completing the transformation from prey to hunter.

The trees gradually grew thicker, and more than a dozen grassland men who chased into the mountains and forests also dispersed, searching for traces of the enemy.

But they didn't know at this time how terrible this pawn of the Sui army who fled all the way in the forest would become......

A chasing soldier who had fallen behind trekked between the trees, one foot deep and one shallow, muttering something in his mouth.

When you pass an old tree, you don't have any defense.

Behind the tree he stretched out a palm and covered his jaw with such force that he could even hear the bones of his jaw creaking.

Before he could struggle in panic, the figure hidden behind the tree had already reached behind him, and with a heavy mistake in his two hands, his neck completed an absolutely impossible movement on a normal day, rotating one hundred and eighty degrees from front to back.

So, he saw the stunned face of the young man behind him, but this was also the last thing he saw in this world......

The boy gently lowered the corpse, like a beast that had succeeded in sneaking up, and quietly but contentedly dragged the prey behind the tree.

At this time, Li Pocai shook his hand in annoyance, he didn't need to do anything, and he was really rusty.

The person who can kill can kill himself was also bluffed, this is something that hasn't happened for many years, the strength is not well controlled, and there is still a little nervous, huh...... It's definitely not nervousness, it's supposed to be excitement, yes, it's fucking excitement.

After cautiously looking at the probe and listening quietly for a while, Li Po sat down again and began to dig through the corpse.

In the end, to his chagrin, there was only a greasy dagger that could still be seen, and nothing other than a few pieces of fishy jerky.

As for the scimitars, bows and arrows of these pups, they were all thrown aside by him in disgust, rough and bulky, and useless......

A group of poor ghosts, even if they play prestige on the grassland, they dare to chase their grandfather into the woods, and they really don't know how to write dead words.