Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Tianjing Chapter One Hundred and Six Before the Storm
A soldier covered in black armor walked up to Cheng Ranxuan's side gently, and suddenly cut off his right hand with a knife, and kicked the purple gold long sword away. And Cheng Ranxuan on the ground didn't react at all, so the sergeant squatted down, stretched out a finger under Cheng Ranxuan's nose, and then stood up, and said angrily: "My lord, it's dead." ”
"Don't I have long eyes?" Zu Kang said angrily: "General Cheng is also a hero, why are you like this." ”
"My lord, this is the rule."
"If you follow the rules, you know the rules." Zu Kang walked out, picked up the purple gold long sword, put it next to Cheng Ranxuan, and said, "Don't be stunned, look for something." ”
"Yes." The sergeants answered, and then went into action, rummaging through the packages of the entire team.
Zu Kang himself walked to a high ground and watched the people below rummage through things. Food and water were all spilled on the ground, and the soldiers rummaged through the mountains of luggage like headless flies for a small letter.
Zu Kang waited for half an hour, and when he saw that the group of soldiers were still rummaging for food and water, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted, "A bunch of fools! How can a letter be placed in the grain. "Say it. He walked down the hill in a few steps, walked to Cheng Ranxuan's mount, circled, but did not make a move, and said, "You are reluctant to come and turn over these places alone?" ”
Immediately a soldier came over and rummaged through the mount. Neither the animals nor the mounts were poisoned, because they did not have much of a broken intestine on their bodies, and at this moment they watched their master fall motionless by the campfire, and did not know how to feel, but kept chewing on the fodder that had ruminated from their stomachs.
Rough Kang turned his back to Cheng Ranxuan's mount, facing the bonfire, feeling the leisurely warmth. Soon, a voice pierced from behind: "My lord, I've searched all over the place, but no." ”
"That's on him." Zu Kang turned to his side, his eyes golden from the bonfire.
He walked to Cheng Ranxuan's side in a few steps, squatted down, and said, "General Cheng, I'm offended." As he spoke, he removed the bamboo horn armor on Cheng Ranxuan's body piece by piece, put his hand into Cheng Ranxuan's clothes, and groped a little to find the letter. He slowly withdrew his hand, and in his hand was the letter, which also had a tin seal on it, and on it was the Liu character of a seal script, which was the mark of the palace.
A soldier walked up to Zu Kang and said, "My lord, is this the letter?" ”
Zu Kang took the letter in his hand and looked at it carefully, he was Cheng Ranxuan's soldier, and he had seen this letter when he set off on the first day, and at this moment, looking at the appearance, he felt that it was no problem.
"I'm afraid there's some mystery in there." As he spoke, Zu Kang tore the letter in half diagonally.
"Your Excellency!" The soldier's exclamation rang in his ears.
"Don't make a sound." Zu Kang beckoned to the soldiers, while pulling out the two pieces of letter paper, put them together in his hand, he looked at the familiar font, he had already guessed the authenticity of the letter, read it by the light of the campfire, and completely affirmed the authenticity of the letter in his heart.
"That's right, that's the letter." Zu Kang stuffed the letter back into the envelope, he turned the two halves of the envelope sideways, and kept the half with the tin seal in his hand, but the other half was thrown into the fire without hesitation, and the half of the letter quickly curled up in the fire and turned gray, and soon it became ashes that could not be seen as the prototype.
Seeing this, the soldier who had been following Zu Kang was horrified and said, "My lord, you are here! ”
"To make a play, you have to be real." Zu Kang took the half letter in his hand sideways and walked to Cheng Ranxuan's corpse.
Although Cheng Ranxuan's right hand was cut off after his death, the blood still flowed out of his body and gathered into a small pool of water at his hand. Zu Kang covered half of the letter flat into the blood, then took out the letter, blew it into the bonfire, and said, "If you can't deceive yourself, how can you deceive others." Zu Kang took the letter into his arms, removed the bamboo horn armor on his body piece by piece, and threw it into the grass, leaving only a few pieces of key parts to cover.
Cheng Ranxuan's mount was on the side, quietly watching the whole process, it was motionless at the moment, like a statue, Zu Kang came to lead it, and it followed Zu Kang directly. Zu Kang turned over and touched the horse's back, and the horse snorted, and did not seem to be displeased.
Zu Kang rode to the middle of the camp, he was surrounded by the corpses of soldiers, because of the strength of the intestine-breaking medicine, many of them died of pain, Zu Kang saw this, sighed, and said to the soldiers behind him: "You guys, clean up here, burn it first, and then bury it, understand?" ”
"Understood." A soldier replied. At the same time as they answered, these soldiers had already moved, and at this moment they found that there were more than 100 soldiers in this group of black-armored soldiers, and they didn't know where their mounts were left, so they hid quietly next to the camp and no one noticed them.
Some of them began to dig pits, while others dragged the bodies together for easy disposal. There was a soldier dragging Cheng Ranxuan's body, because Cheng Ranxuan was tall, the soldier grabbed his feet and dragged him into the pit that had just been dug by the campfire.
Just as the soldier was about to throw Cheng Ranxuan's purple gold sword into it, Zu Kang suddenly said, "Wait a minute! ”
The soldier stopped, Zu Kang turned over and dismounted, took the sword, and drew the blade, only to see that the blade shone purple throughout, and shone like stars in the darkness. The onlookers were amazed by the beauty of the sword.
"What a sword, it's a pity." As he spoke, Zu Kang slashed his sword at a rock, and with a knife down, the rock cracked from it, and this sword also cracked from it, and the tip of the half of the sword that flew out grazed Zu Kang's neck diagonally, if it wasn't for Zu Kang subconsciously turning his head, at this moment, he had been pierced by the tip of the half of the sword that flew out, and he was bleeding nonstop.
A soldier stopped what he was doing, looked at Zu Kang, and said, "My lord! ”
"I'm fine, you go ahead." Zu Kang stretched out his hand and touched the blood that slowly oozed from his neck, looked at the half-cut long sword in his hand, and said, "Yo, you will still protect it, you are much more benevolent and righteous than that horse." Zu Kang stuck this half of the long sword diagonally at his waist, and the place where the map was originally hung turned into a long sword at this moment. No, a broken sword.
Zu Kang took the remnant sword, turned over on his horse, and was about to leave, all the soldiers stopped what they were doing, knelt down on one knee towards him, and said, "May your lordship prosper!" ”
"I can't come back this time, I wish me a lot of wealth in the next life, hahahahahahaha." Zu Kang hit his horse and left.
He had just taken two steps, but a soldier chased out behind him and said, "Your Excellency, stay here." ”
Zu Kang grabbed the reins of his horse, stopped his mount, and said, "Anything else?" ”
"Look, these mount animals."
Zu Kang looked at it, and now, there were still nearly a hundred horses and mounts left in the camp, and they were silent in the darkness one by one, as if they had become one with the darkness. If it were in other places, these hundred or so mounts and cattle would be really difficult to deal with, and it would definitely become a problem, but in such a wilderness, wouldn't it be difficult to deal with?
"When the carcasses are disposed of, let's get these things out into the field, and the leopards and tigers will take care of them for us. Anything else? ”
"No, sir."
"Hopefully this is the last time I'll turn around." Zukon said, pulling his mount out into the darkness, his form disappearing for a brief moment in the vision provided by the campfire and torches.