After bidding farewell to Zhou Chang and the Central Plains Dao official army, Lin Fan and the others left the land of Chenzhou and continued to the road north to King Qin.

After several days of marching, the official army led by Lin Fan finally came to the territory of Yizhou. This is already the territory of Gyeonggi, and more than 300 miles north from here is the capital of the Daeyun Dynasty.

In the past hundreds of years, it has always been the pursuit of all cloud people to be able to settle down in the capital. It's just that I never thought that now that the world is so chaotic that even the capital at the feet of the Son of Heaven cannot escape the scourge of swords.

Lin Fan's road to the north was not smooth, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was bumpy.

However, fortunately, although there are many bandits and robbers in the north today, they are officials and soldiers after all, and there are many people. Along the way, there were no blind thieves who dared to provoke them, and the road was relatively calm and uneventful, and there were no waves.

It's just that without the attack of thieves, it doesn't mean that everything will go well. On the contrary, Lin Fan's journey was far from smooth.

Just last night, the weather, which had been dreary for days, finally began to snow heavily.

The goose-feathered snow lasted all night, and there was no intention of stopping until after dawn today.

At this time, the earth was covered with heavy snow, and as far as the eye could see, the whole world was gray and white.

In this wilderness, there were no birds, no wild beasts, and no living creature seemed to be found, except for the ranks of officers and soldiers on the march.

In this vast world, the queue of officers and soldiers is like a long and narrow gray line, stretching into the distance.

The white pavement was muddy again after being weighed down by tens of thousands of people and heavy trucks.

After the officers and soldiers passed, these traces were soon buried by the heavy snow, and everything disappeared. It's as if no one has ever been here, and nothing has ever changed here.

The slippery road makes everyone's every step feel like stepping on cotton with nowhere to be forced, and it is difficult to stand firmly.

The biting cold wind in the north made it even more unbearable for this group of soldiers from Huainan Province.

The wind howled, sounding like a demon from the Netherworld crying for its life, or like some kind of wild beast howling in the wilderness before hunting.

This kind of depression and coldness that goes deep into the bone marrow is something that everyone has never experienced. Even if everyone wore two or three layers of cotton clothes under their armor, they were still shivering in the cold wind.

If it weren't for Lin Fan's fact that he would let people cook ginger soup every morning and evening to ward off the cold, I am afraid that a large number of typhoid fever would have appeared in the army at this time.

Everyone can only staggered forward with one foot deep and one shallow foot.

Lin Fan rode a horse and walked at the forefront of the team, and Lin Fan, who was hit by the oncoming wind and snow, couldn't open his eyes, so he could only squint a slit to see the road.

The front half of his armor was already covered with a layer of ice glass, and the hair and eyebrows on his forehead were also covered with a thick layer of frost, which made him look like a snowman.

The same is true of the war horse under his crotch, the snowflakes fall on its body, melted by the steaming heat, and then immediately frozen into frost by the ubiquitous cold in the heavens and the earth.

The mane on its neck has become locks and thickens.

At this time, he has been patrolling back and forth in the army

An Ning urged the horse to catch up, and he said, "My lord, such a big snowstorm, you go back and rest first, just leave it to us to watch here!" ”

It's just that his voice was swallowed up by the roaring wind and snow, and Lin Fan didn't hear what he said clearly.

Lin Fan rubbed his hands, took a breath of hot air, and then rubbed his frozen reddened ears and cheeks.

After recovering a bit, he asked aloud, "What did you say?" ”

In the cold wind, Lin Fan, who couldn't open his mouth, became difficult to speak, and due to the stiffness of his facial muscles, his voice was a little distorted.

Such a heavy wind and snow is really unbearable, An Ning was afraid that Lin Fan would not be able to hear it, so he had to raise his voice and said: "My lord, you go back to the carriage to rest first, we can just keep an eye here, it will be fine!" ”

As the commander of the First Army, Lin Fan naturally has his own carriage.

It's just that he rarely uses it, especially after going north, the weather is getting colder and colder, and Lin Fan rarely goes back to that carriage.

More often than not, it was used to pull soldiers who were suffering from typhoid fever, so that they could also be recuperated and cared for during the march.

Along the way, this is not the first time that An Ning has let Lin Fan go back, but Lin Fan can't bear that those soldiers are already weak, and they have to toss and turn to make room for him, and most of the time they refuse.

This time, Lin Fan unsurprisingly rejected An Ning's request, and he said: "This is already near Gyeonggi, and we may encounter the Manzhen army at any time." At this time, you let me go back to rest, how can I rest assured? ”

"But if it goes on like this, my lord, your body?" An Ning was really worried that Lin Fan's body would not be able to bear it.

Chen Fangshu on the side also persuaded: "My lord, An Ning is right, you are the backbone of the whole army. If you fall ill, you won't be able to fight this battle! ”

Lin Fan smiled and comforted them: "It's okay, I still have food and accommodation, there will be no problems for a while!" ”

Seeing that Lin Fan insisted, An Ning and they couldn't say anything more, so they could only follow him silently and follow him to open the way.

Towards noon, the wind and snow that had been raging for a day finally stopped.

The dazzling sunlight also began to shine through the heavy dark clouds in the sky and sprinkled on the snow-covered earth, inlaying a layer of gold on everything around it.

Under the light of the sun, the dark clouds that had been pressing on everyone's hearts and were so low that they almost intersected the ground began to dissipate. The sun was high, and everyone's mood became brighter, as if even the heavens and the earth were much wider.

However, before everyone could be happy, a horse came galloping from a distance. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" ”

Lin Fan recognized this person, he was a scout in the army, named He Lu. Because Lu and donkey have some similarities in pronunciation, he is often nicknamed He Donkey by his comrades in the army.

Earlier today, he and his team were sent by Lin Fan to the front to explore the way.

The officers and soldiers hurriedly rushed out of several horses to meet him, only to find that he had been hit by a few arrows in the back, and the red blood had soaked through his cotton clothes, but before it could spread to other places, it condensed into red ice stains on the armor.

He Donkey staggered on the horse's back, and he couldn't hold on until he came to Lin Fan, and almost fell off the horse.

Lin Fan's guards around him have eye problems

They hurried forward to support him, and then several people worked together to carry him off the horse.

Zhou Yuanzhi followed Zhou Bo to collect medicine all the year round when he was a child, and he was quite familiar with pharmacology and had some experience in treating external injuries, so he stepped forward to check the injuries on He Donkey'er's body.

After carefully examining the arrow wound on the back of He Donkey, Zhou Yuanzhi's eyes revealed a trace of irrepressible sadness, and he gently shook his head at Lin Fan.

These arrows hurt He Donkey's internal organs, and he shed so much blood along the way, and now it is difficult for the gods to save him!

He Donkey has been in the army for some time, and he is the most dangerous scout in the army, and he has suffered a lot of major and minor injuries.

Therefore, he was also very aware of the injuries on his body, and grinned: "I... I can't live, my lord... Adults don't care about me! ”

Then his face changed, and he stopped talking nonsense: "My lord, there is... There are enemy troops... Cough... Cough... Ahem! ”

In the middle of his words, He Donkey was interrupted by his own violent coughing, and blood flowed down the corners of his mouth.

Lin Fan held his hand with his right hand, and then gently stroked his chest with his other hand to smooth his breath.

"I'm here, you don't have to rush, speak slowly!" Lin Fan said gently.

He Donkey calmed down: "This morning, my team and I went to explore the road on the orders of adults. Just now, we met a group of enemy troops, ahem... Ahem! ”

"Before we could understand what was going on, they did it first. Cough... Ahem... Before we could see each other, we were down three or four! Cough... Ahem..."

"The rest of us were so frightened that we didn't dare to fight them, so we turned our horses, turned and fled. Ahem... Ahem, ahem! ”

He Donkey'er's breath became more and more unstable, and his speech speed became faster and faster, and the violent coughing caused some internal organ fragments to be coughed out by him.

"But our horses were not as fast as theirs, and they soon overtook them. In order to let me come back and report the news, so that the adults could prepare in advance, they and the other brothers stayed behind to block the enemy and buy me time. ”

Speaking of this, this man, who was hit by several arrows in his body and was seriously injured and dying, couldn't help but shed two lines of tears: "I saw with my own eyes that they were brutally killed by those people, and they didn't even leave their whole corpses. But I can only take care of myself and escape, and I don't even dare to look back and take a second look, my lord, do you think I'm useless? ”

He Donkey'er's pupils had already begun to dilate, and Lin Fan clenched his hand: "No, you sent the news back and saved the lives of more brothers, how could it be useless?" ”

Lin Fan didn't wait for He Donkey'er's response, he felt that the body temperature belonging to He Donkey in his palm was gradually disappearing.

He took it in his arms and closed his eyes, which had lost their brightness.

"How could you be useless? It's me who doesn't work! I'm sorry, I... I'm bringing you out... But I didn't get you back! Lin Fan muttered softly, and by the end he had already brought a crying tone.

Lin Fan's words made the noses of everyone present sour, and many people were secretly wiping their tears.

Lin Fan handed over He Donkey's body that had lost temperature to Zhou Yuanzhi and the others behind him, he stood up, his eyes resolute and cold staring at the direction He Donkey came from.

"Pass my order, all arms for war!" Lin Fan ordered.

Not long after he gave the order, a group of uninvited guests appeared in the sight of Lin Fan and the others.