Chapter 528: Life and Death
Mo Chen said with a gloomy face: "It seems that you still don't want to say, Huyan Lannuo, these people are handed over to you, no matter what method you use, as long as you can pry these people's mouths open, I don't believe that their mouths are so hard." ”
"Yes, General."
After receiving the order, Huyan Lannuo directly took off the horse whip on his waist and said coldly: "Come on, tie up these people." ”
Without saying a word, the soldiers of the Mo Army who were holding dozens of people directly found ropes to line up these dozens of people and tied them to the stakes.
Huyan Lannuo didn't say a word, and directly waved the horsewhip and whipped it at one of them, and immediately shouted at those who let him smoke.
In addition to Huyan Lannuo, there were also some soldiers of the Mo Army who whipped these hard-mouthed guys according to Huyan Lannuo's requirements, but although these guys were beaten and screamed, they insisted that they were sent by the Qin State.
Even so, Mo Chen didn't believe it, because it shouldn't be at this time, if he didn't get the news, Donghu marched to Pingyuan City, he would have believed it, but since the Donghu people were not far from Pingyuan City, and at this time, someone poisoned his war horse and burned his baggage, to say that this has nothing to do with Donghu and the remnants of the Xiongnu, he didn't believe it, if Qin Wang Yingzheng wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to stumble him, and solve him with the hands of Donghu and the Xiongnu, unless Qin Wang Yingzheng had been cold-blooded to such a point, You must know that Ying Weilin is still with him, he can't escape from Pingyuan City, and neither can Ying Weilin and Qin Jun, he doesn't believe that Ying Zheng will even ignore his sister Wang in order to stumble him, besides, some of these people are not the faces of the Central Plains at all.
Mo Chen looked at Xiao Cui and slowly walked to Xiao Cui's side, Xiao Cui was not tied up because she was a woman and had been appreciated by Mo Chen.
Mo Chen said in a calm tone: "Xiao Cui, ask yourself, how do I treat you when you come to Plains City?" I don't want to say more, this time the Donghu people and the Huns attacked, and you poisoned our war horses here and burned our baggage, I don't think it's a coincidence, I can guess one or two of your identities, but I want a confirmation, you are not a woman, don't force me to strip off your clothes, and then reward the soldiers, become a military prostitute who can be a man. ”
When Xiao Cui heard Mo Chen's words, her body trembled obviously, and finally gritted her teeth and said: "General, Xiao Cui knows that I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Mo Jun, Xiao Cui doesn't expect the general to spare his life, Xiao Cui only hopes that after saying it, Xiao Cui can make Xiao Cui happy." ”
"Okay, I promise you." Mo Chen nodded and said in a deep voice.
In the northwest outside the plain city, Ying Weilin and Bai Yamei were walking on the grassland with their war horses.
Ying Weilin stretched her waist, breathed in the fresh air, looked at the beautiful scenery of the grassland, and said with a happy smile: "Sister Bai, I didn't feel anything before, but when I went to fight Zhao some time ago, I found out that the scenery of our Plains City was good." ”
"Hehe, why, before the general married you, you claimed that Plains City was yours?"
Bai Yamei scratched Ying Weilin's nose, she was also in a happy mood, they didn't know what was happening in Pingyuan City.
Ying Weilin cocked her nose and said proudly: "That's it, anyway, in this life, I don't want to marry Brother Mochen, whoever lets him see my body, he can't rely on it." ”
Just as the two were talking and laughing happily, in the grass not far away, dozens of big men in leather armor were lying in the grass and looking at them coldly.
Just as the two of them passed by the bushes, those big men suddenly rushed out and killed the two of them, and because Ying Weilin was closer to the grass, the big men swung their knives at Ying Weilin at the first time.
"Be careful."
Bai Yamei drew her saber, swung her sword to help Ying Weilin block a knife, and then kicked a big man out with one kick.
Ying Weilin fixed her eyes on the outfits of these people, and immediately saw the identity of these people, and said angrily: "Donghu people? is so bold that he dares to come to Plains City and look for death. ”
Ying Weilin said that she drew her sword and was about to rush up to fight with those big men, but she was stopped by Bai Yamei.
Bai Yamei stabbed to death a front Donghu soldier with a sword, and pulled Ying Weilin and said urgently: "There are many people on the other side, let's go quickly and go back to Pingyuan City." ”
"Okay, let's kill them, and then lead someone to kill all these guys."
Ying Weilin is not the kind of person with a tendon, so she immediately agreed, and the two turned over and ran away.
It's just that what they didn't expect was that dozens of Donghu cavalry on war horses appeared in front of them, rushing towards them.
"Sister Bai, what should I do?"
Ying Weilin saw that there was an interception in front and a chasing soldier behind, and she couldn't help but be anxious.
Bai Yamei looked at the Donghu cavalry that came in a fan-shape, and the only one they didn't have Donghu soldiers now was the north, but if they ran to the north, they would only get farther and farther away from Pingyuan City, and now it seemed that the other party was trying to force them to the north.
Bai Yamei gritted her teeth and said, "No matter, let's kill it, as long as we rush over, these Donghu people can't do anything to us." ”
"Okay, then let's rush over."
Ying Weilin immediately agreed with Bai Yamei's words, and the two brandished their swords, urged their horses, and killed those Donghu cavalry head-on.
The two rushed quickly, brandishing their swords and fighting with the Donghu cavalry, but those Donghu cavalry quickly gathered and surrounded the two, so that the two could not break through the encirclement, so they could only fight hard, and the Donghu cavalry was killed by them one by one, but those Donghu soldiers seemed to be dying, and attacked the two of them to the death, so that they could not get out.
Just when the two thought that they were in a catastrophe, the horse's hooves roared, and hundreds of Mo cavalry appeared on the grassland, showing a semicircle, and those Donghu cavalry wanted to escape when they saw that the situation was wrong, but it was obvious that they were still one step slower, and the Mo cavalry quickly surrounded those Donghu cavalry, and it was Mo Chen who led the troops.
With a charge of the Mo cavalry, the Donghu cavalry that surrounded Ying Weilin and Bai Yamei were killed by the Mo army.
As soon as Ying Weilin saw Mo Chen's arrival, she immediately jumped off her war horse like a magpie, ran in front of Mo Chen, and said with a look of grievance: "Brother Mo Chen, thanks to your timely arrival, otherwise Sister Bai and I would have been poisoned by those damn Donghu people, by the way, Brother Mo Chen, how do you know that we are here?" And how did these Donghu people end up here? ”
Mo Chen looked at Ying Weilin, whose hair was a little scattered, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, but then he turned into a serious face, and said coldly: "Don't care about these Donghu people here, you think about the good things you have done, come here, and escort her back to me." ”
"Yes, General."
Several female soldiers immediately dismounted, wanting to hold Ying Weilin.
When Ying Weilin saw that these female soldiers were about to clasp their hands, she was in a hurry, and hurriedly shook off the hands of the female soldiers, pouted, and said aggrievedly: "What are you doing, what are you doing, aren't I just going out with Sister Bai for a walk!" What kind of murder, those Donghu people wanted to kill me just now, and now you are murdering me again, and escorting me back, what did I do wrong, you want to do this to me. ”
Ying Weilin looked at Mo Chen, her face was aggrieved, the more she spoke, the more she felt wronged, tears were rolling in her eyes, but in an instant, bean-sized tears fell from Ying Weilin's eyes.
Mo Chen saw that Ying Weilin's face was full of tears, and his heart hurt, especially just now Ying Weilin was besieged and killed by the Donghu people, which made him feel even more distressed, but he still gritted his teeth, his face was still indifferent, and said: "Why, you are a dignified princess of Qin, what you have done, dare not admit it!" ”
"What did I do! Princess Ben didn't do anything. Ying Weilin saw that Mo Chen not only didn't care about whether she was injured, but questioned her one by one, and she was very aggrieved in her heart.
Bai Yamei didn't know what was going on, and seeing that Mo Chen's face was wrong, she quickly stood up and said: "General, Sister Ying has always been with her subordinates, it is impossible to do anything, and her subordinates can testify." ”
Who knew that Mo Chen not only did not ease his tone, but instead looked at Bai Yamei coldly, and said angrily: "Bai Yamei, you have to know what you are talking about, do you know what happened in Pingyuan City, don't testify casually if you don't know, do you know that you are a soldier of the Mo Army, a personal guard battalion, a battalion captain, you have to be clear about your position, now there is no business for you, you stay aside first." ”
After Mo Chen finished speaking, he said to the female soldiers: "What are you doing, don't bring people back." ”
"General......" Bai Yamei didn't expect Mo Chen to say this, and wanted to continue to reply, but found that her arm was pulled.
Bai Yamei turned her head and found that it was Xiaolan who was pulling her, and Xiaolan kept shaking her head to signal her.
Ying Weilin saw that Mo Chen was so fierce to herself, she was a dignified princess of a country, when was she murdered, and now she was actually murdered by the person she liked, the more she thought about it, the more she felt wronged, and finally she lost her temper.
Ying Weilin pushed away the female soldier who wanted to take her own, and said angrily: "I have hands and feet, I will go by myself." ”
Ying Weilin said that he rode his war horse and rushed to Pingyuan City first, Mo Chen just watched, did not speak, and finally turned his horse's head and rushed to Pingyuan City, and those female soldiers did not dare to really take Ying Weilin, so they could only ride on their war horses and chase them out, following Ying Weilin.
Looking at the silence of the two of them, Bai Yamei couldn't help but ask Xiaolan in a low voice: "Xiaolan, what's going on." ”
Xiao Lan shook her head lightly and whispered, "Sister Bai, you will know in the future, let's go back to Plains City first!" ”
"Okay, you Xiaolan, don't even you want to tell me now?"
Bai Yamei didn't expect that even Xiaolan refused to tell her what happened, and suddenly angrily crossed her hands and glared at Xiaolan.
Xiaolan looked at Bai Yamei, who looked fierce, her face was full of grievances, and finally she still bit it and said: "Sister Bai, don't embarrass Xiaolan, the general won't let you say, Xiaolan can only take orders, you will know later, let's go back to Plains City first!" ”
After Xiaolan finished speaking, she left as if she was running away, as if she was afraid that Bai Yamei would continue to let her confess.
Bai Yamei saw that Xiaolan was running so fast, so she could only stomp her feet, ride a war horse, and rush to Pingyuan City.
When Ying Weilin returned to Pingyuan City, she was stunned by the scene in front of her, only to see that the war horses were being pulled by soldiers in carriages to the back mountains of Pingyuan City, and the surrounding cavalry howled miserably.
Bai Yamei was also very shocked when she saw all this, why did she only leave Plains City for a short time, and such a big event happened in Plains City.
Mo Chen took Ying Weilin to the mountain behind Pingyuan City, where there were already full of corpses of war horses, densely packed with corpses of war horses, and countless cavalry held their mounts and howled and cried bitterly, the scene was no less tragic than the tragic situation after the end of a cruel war.
Mo Chen looked at all this, and his heart was also very sad, hundreds of thousands of elite war horses! He actually died like this, not on the battlefield of fighting with the enemy, but by the despicable poisoning of the enemy.
"This ...... What's going on? How could this happen to these war horses? Ying Weilin looked surprised, she immediately dismounted and grabbed a silent cavalryman.
The cavalryman looked at Ying Weilin, opened his mouth, and then looked at Mo Chen on the side, and finally didn't say anything, just hugged his mount and cried.
"What the hell is going on, why are so many war horses ...... It's all like this? This scene caught Ying Weilin by surprise and made her dare not believe it, but none of the surrounding soldiers of the Mo Army answered her.
Mo Chen also got off his horse, grabbed Ying Weilin's hand, and said angrily: "What's the matter? Are you still pretending? Isn't this your masterpiece? 160,000 war horses, hehe, all dead, now you are satisfied! ”
"No...... No, Brother Mochen, what are you talking about! I didn't do anything! Ying Weilin is not stupid, she understood the meaning of Mo Chen's words at once, and she couldn't be angry now, so she hurriedly explained.
"Hehe, still pretending, when you came to Plains City as a representative, you dared to say that there was no other purpose?"
Mo Chen suddenly laughed, but that laughter made Ying Weilin very uneasy, and anxious tears flowed down, but she didn't care about wiping it, she hurriedly grabbed Mo Chen's hand, and said urgently: "Yes, I admit that I came to Pingyuan City to use the hands of the Mo army to fight the Huns, but that was before, and now I really don't have that kind of thought, I really regard Pingyuan City as my home, I like everything here, how can I do something sorry for Pingyuan City, and do something sorry for Mo Chen's brother." ”
Mo Chen looked at Ying Weilin who was in tears, and his heart was also very painful, and he reached out to help Ying Weilin wipe away the tears on his face.
Ying Weilin saw Mo Chen's movements, and her heart was happy Because Mo Chen believed her, she suddenly waited with anticipation waiting for Mo Chen to wipe her tears for her.
It's just that Mo Chen's hand was just about to touch Ying Weilin's face when his hand suddenly stopped. Looking at the pitiful Ying Weilin, Mo Chen finally gritted his teeth, waved his big hand, and directly shook off Ying Weilin's hand that held him, and said angrily: "Until now, do you still want to deny it?" Okay, it seems that you don't see the Yellow River and don't give up, come and bring people up, I want to see that you have nothing to deny. ”
Just as Ying Weilin was still explaining, two silent soldiers walked over with a person, and a row of silent soldiers behind him, carrying corpses.
Ying Weilin recognized at a glance who the person whose hands were tied with the rope was, that person was Xiao Cui who she rescued and brought to Plains City, and she also recognized some of those corpses, and the people she recognized were the people she had brought to Plains City together.
Mo Chen pointed to those corpses and said coldly: "These people, did you bring them in the first place?" They have already been recruited under the orders of your Qin State, do you know what they have done? I poisoned and poisoned the 160,000 war horses of our Mo army, and burned down the heavy warehouses of our Mo army, and I did this only because I got a lot of wealth from Zhao and a lot of supplies from Qin and taught my Mo army a lesson. ”
"Xiaocui, how can you do such a thing, who told you to do it? You say! Ying Weilin pulled Xiaocui and said angrily.
"Your Royal Highness, I'm sorry."
Xiao Cui only said one sentence and then lowered her head and stopped talking, as if she had no face to see people.
"Don't just say you're sorry! You're going to tell me who told you to do it! ”
When Ying Weilin heard this, she was immediately angry, this Xiaocui didn't say who instigated it, just said sorry what's the use, but no matter how she asked, this Xiaocui never said a word, but no matter how she said it, it was the person she brought at the beginning, and she really did such a rebellious thing, no wonder Brother Mochen would treat herself like this, she quickly explained: "No, no, Brother Mochen, although these people were brought by me, they were not brought by me from the Qin State, but ......"
Before Ying Weilin could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Mo Chen, who didn't give Ying Weilin a chance to explain at all.
"Enough, I still want to quibble, they have already confessed, everyone has obtained the stolen goods, what else do you want to say, for the sake of you who helped our Mo army at the beginning, I embarrass you, but our Plains City can no longer tolerate you, you go back to your Qin State, from now on, you take your Yangguan Road, I cross my single-plank bridge, and from then on we will break off."
"I said I didn't do it, why don't you believe me, you let me go, I'll go! Silent Dust, I hate you. Every time Ying Weilin wanted to explain, she was interrupted by Mo Chen, and she was even more aggrieved when she was framed, wiped a handful of tears, turned around and ran, and even the war horse Baifeng couldn't take it away.
Mo Chen stretched out his hand and wanted to stop Ying Weilin, but in the end he still didn't speak, just watched Ying Weilin leave.
Bai Yamei stood up and said softly: "General, my subordinates think that there will definitely be a misunderstanding, and my subordinates think that Sister Wei Lin will never do anything to be sorry for the general." ”
Mo Chen shook his head and said softly: "You don't care about this matter, Yamei, you lead the guard battalion to urge the Qin army to leave the Plains City, until you watch them enter the Qin City." ”
"General, do you really want to let them leave Plains City?" Bai Yamei whispered.
Mo Chen sighed, looked at the war horses in front of him that were buried in the soil, looked at the sky again, and said seriously: "There is no need to discuss this matter, you have the order, this time you not only have to urge the Qin army to leave, but also have a task, the plain city is too remote, and there are not many literati, our Mo army must not only be outstanding in martial arts, but also not backward, otherwise how to govern the city in the future, this time I will let a child set off with you, and after sending the Qin army back to Qin, you will take these children to Houpu County." ”
"Yes, General."
Bai Yamei saw that Mo Chen was so resolute, she was used to obeying Mo Chen's orders, and she could only obey the order.
Soon, all the Qin soldiers were urged by the soldiers of the Mo army to pack their bags and step out of the plain city, which made a group of Qin soldiers very confused.
Accompanied by the pro-guard battalion in charge of supervision, there are also carriages with a car of crying children, these children are the new generation of the Mo army, the younger ones are still crying, but the older ones are already holding swords, like the big brothers, comforting the children in the car.
These carriages were originally intended by the Mo army to escort grain and grass to the front line, and they thought that they had been outside beforehand, so they had escaped the fate of being poisoned, but these were ordinary horses, not well-trained war horses.
The war horses of Bai Yamei's personal guard camp are almost all the war horses in Plains City, and now there are only a few war horses in Plains City that are reserved for heralds, and in addition, even Mo Chen has no mounts to ride.
Ying Weilin watched the team slowly walk out of Plains City, she hoped that the person in her heart would appear under the city gate and keep her, but as the last carriage stepped out of the Plains City Gate, there was no figure of that person, but the muffled sound of the heavy iron gate closing.
"Sister Wei Lin, let's go! The general also made such a big fire because something so big happened, and after a while, the general's anger disappeared, and he was fine. Bai Yamei comforted.
"When I go back, I must find out who dares to scare me." Ying Weilin wiped her tears, dug a strong way, and left Plains City without looking back.
On the mountainside of the plains, Mo Chen and the generals of the Mo army stood on the mountainside and looked at the teams that were getting farther and farther away from the plain city.
Jiang Feng took a step forward and said, "General, according to your request, we have taken all the children under the age of fourteen in Plains City to the captain of the White Battalion, but Mo Yuan and their members of the Youth Battalion don't know where to go. ”
"Can't find it? That's it, forget it if you can't find it, this kid must have heard some news and didn't want to go to Houpu County to hide. Mo Chen looked at the grassland that was already out of sight in the distance, turned around, and said solemnly: "Pass the order, the whole city is ready for war, the Donghu people may be faster than we expected." ”
"Yes"
A group of generals suddenly received the order, and walked down the mountain with Mo Chen, and soon, the entire plain city began to stir, all the soldiers of the Mo army began to arrange defenses, some began to dig traps outside the city, and many people built arrow towers at the city gate, and in the gorge outside the city gate, bundles of arrows were hung into the raised stones on the cliff.
Mo Chen personally commanded the deployment at the city gate, but soon, Mo Chen saw a group of immature faces from the busy figure where to help, it was not Jiang Feng who went to look for but did not find Mo Yuan.
Mo Chen said coldly to a busy teenager: "Mo Yuan, you come over for me." ”
When the young man heard Mo Chen's words, his body shook obviously, and then he lowered his head, scratched his head, and turned back to Mo Chen step by step, and the distance of more than ten steps made him feel like he had walked a distance of 100 meters.
"Hehe, Mo Yuan to meet the general."
Mo Chen glanced at Mo Yuan and said coldly: "Boy, aren't you hiding?" Can you give it up? ”
When Mo Yuan heard this, he immediately changed his face, and said with a crying face: "General, don't drive me away, Pingyuan City is Mo Yuan's home, and Mo Yuan will live and die with Pingyuan City." ”
Mo Chen glanced at Mo Yuan, sighed, and said helplessly: "Okay, you can't leave now if you want to, I'll give you a task." ”
Now that the team has left, Mo Chen can't let Mo Yuan, a half-grown child, run to Houpu County on two legs, which is just a dead end, and there is still a chance of life if he stays in Pingyuan City.
When Mo Yuan heard that Mo Chen would not drive him away, he was immediately overjoyed and said happily: "General, please command, as long as we don't drive us away, we will do any task." ”
Mo Chen pointed to the rocks on the top of the gorge, and said: "Have you seen those rocks, your task is to stay on the rocks, and then you will go to the logistics department to get the repeater, no matter what happens in Plains City, you just need to keep greeting the enemy, whether we can survive this level depends on how many enemies you can shoot." ”
"Yes, Mo Yuan understands, that general, Mo Yuan will go to get the crossbow first."
Mo Yuan looked at the raised rocks on the gorge, fantasizing about the majestic appearance of shooting the enemy, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Well, go ahead!"
Mo Chen nodded, and then Mo Yuan cheered, and ran towards the city happily with the young men of his youth camp.
The current youth camp is already a real youth camp, after several years of training as the city chief, their youngest is eleven or twelve years old, and the oldest is fifteen or sixteen years old.
It's not that Mo Chen is ruthless to let these children fight the enemy outside the plain city, but although this gorge is outside the city, it is surrounded by rocky cliffs, and it is difficult to climb forward without tools, plus the attack of the crossbow, the enemy wants to climb up and kill the people above, it seems impossible, unless the plain city is breached, the enemy climbs the plain mountain, condescending to deal with the people above, or wants to kill the people above, unless the archery skills are very superb and the luck is very good, this is also the safest place in the entire plain city.
In the blink of an eye, it was already dark at night, the grassland was quiet, and the torches in the plain city were still bright, and all the fortifications were not completed until the early morning, and everyone had returned to the plain city to rest, while Mo Yuan and the Mo soldiers who had climbed the raised rocks of the gorge could only rest against the rock wall.