Chapter 17: Living may be more painful
When I woke up, I wanted to rub my sour eyes, but I couldn't lift my hands, and I was full of weakness.
When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by a tiger carved on the beams of the house.
Licking his chapped lips, he felt a burning pain in his throat that prevented him from making any sound.
As soon as he was about to sit up, there was a sharp pain in his left chest, and Han Rui was in a cold sweat, so he had to lie back obediently.
Turning his head sideways and scanning the room, the kettle on the desk was close in front of him, but Han Rui couldn't reach it.
Lying on his back and thinking about what happened before he lost consciousness, Han Rui's face was full of gloom.
After a while, Luan Bu walked into the house, saw Han Rui wake up, and squeezed out a smile: "The stinky boy has finally woken up, but he can toss the dead man." ”
Luan Bu came from Chang'an to report on his work, originally to return to Jixian County, the capital of Yandu, and borrow the clouds.
It was a light trip, and he didn't bring many slaves.
In the past few days that Han Rui has been in a coma, he has been served by an old man in his eighties.
The reluctant smile on Luan Bu's face made Han Rui have no intention of asking for water.
Laboriously a low inquiry came out of his throat: "How long have I been asleep?" ”
Luan Bu saw that Han Rui's voice was dry, so he poured a glass of warm water and handed it to Han Rui's mouth: "It's been seven days~"
"In the past few days, several doctors have said that you have a fever and that you are no longer cured, so you can't take care of the consultation fee and run away."
"Hehe, you kid, your life is really hard!"
Taking a sip of saliva, Han Rui felt that his throat felt a little better, and asked again: "Brother Zhang... What's going on? ”
"What about Cloudsdale?"
After all, he still couldn't hide, Luan Bu sighed, sat at the head of the bed and said to Han Rui: "The corpse of the fallen soldier was cremated three days ago, and I ordered someone to put it away..."
"At noon on the day you fell unconscious, 5,000 reinforcements from Yulinsai entered Yunzhong City, and the Xiongnu army withdrew all the way to Munan from that day and never came back."
"After this battle, more than seventy percent of the generals and soldiers died in the clouds, and ninety percent of the soldiers died.
"Alas~"
Han Rui, who was lying on the couch, only heard that Zhang Weiyang had been cremated, so he turned his head inward, tears flowed through the bridge of his nose and gathered in his right eye, and a drop fell on the stone pillow.
Luan Bu was talking to himself, and Han Rui was silently crying.
The world seems to have no time flowing, and it is frozen in a deep sorrow.
After a long time, Han Rui turned his head, looked at Luan Bu with a tired face, and said slightly apologetically: "Old horseman, I've caused you trouble." ”
A hint of relief flashed in Luan Bu's eyes, but his mouth was unceremoniously: "It's all your fault, kid, I haven't been home for seven days!" ”
Listening to this, Han Rui couldn't help but think of the female tiger in Luanbu's family, and couldn't help laughing.
As soon as he grinned, the sharp pain in his chest came again, making Han Rui retract his unbearable smile.
"What's wrong with me? Injured? ”
Luan Bu took out a copper coin from his arms and put it at the head of the bed, looking at Han Rui with envy in his eyes.
"When the Huns were defeated, they turned around and released a few cold arrows, which almost pierced your heart and lungs!"
"I don't know if I should say that your kid is unlucky or lucky."
"Say you're lucky, right? Just a few arrows, and by chance one of them will hit you. ”
"You want to say you have a little bit of back, right? Hey! A penny can save your boy's life! ”
As he spoke, he held up the copper coin in front of Han Rui's eyes.
Looking at the broken copper coin in front of him, Han Rui was puzzled for a while.
Isn't this one of the two copper coins that have been kept in my arms, the 'ex-wife' threw out of the wedding sedan chair?
After coming to this world for more than a month, Han Rui has seen these two copper coins.
You can touch it with your eyes closed!
"If it weren't for this copper coin to disperse the arrows, you kid, you would have gone with your big brother Zhang."
"The doctor said the arrow pierced you almost an inch into your chest! Almost a little bit, it penetrated the heart! ”
Han Rui listened, incredible, only feeling lucky!
The copper coin that he left as a souvenir out of resentment (poverty) actually saved his life!
Fate is unfair to itself, and there is still a time limit...
Hmmm... I survived, what about the township party partners?
"What about the others? How many of our city walls survived? ”
After a little relaxation, the atmosphere returned to solemnity, and Luan Bu sighed: "Counting you and me, there are only six people left..."
Han Rui sat up in shock: "How is it possible?" When the Huns retreated, there were at least dozens of people standing on the city wall! ”
After the battle, they were all fine, how could there be only four left?
Luan Bu had no choice but to tell the story: "All the soldiers have not been fighting all night, and they have all been injured, and they are already at the end of the crossbow..."
"Some of them fell on the wall like you, and never woke up."
"There are also those who died of wounds after the war, those who died of exhaustion, and those who died of hunger and food..."
"It's a pity, they're all good husbands..."
Saying that, Luan Bu's heart ached...
If they survive, they can be directly cultivated as officer seedlings.
Those who can survive such a big war are all soldiers!
Thinking like this, Luan Bu's eyes flashed, and he looked at Han Rui's eyes as if a fox saw his prey!
Pretending not to be so deliberate, he said, "It's you, what are your plans for the future?" ”
"The villages outside Yunzhong City are all destroyed, Zhang Jiayu, you can't go back, why don't you join the army and defend me?"
This kid has beheaded dozens of people in the first battle of the city alone!
Add to that the fact that you have almost single-handedly repelled thousands of enemy troops (1), and you can at least have a Duke of Success!
Although it is only an eighth-level knighthood, you must know that the five doctors who are one level higher are the high lords!
The most important thing is that this son looks less than twenty years old, and he can at least fight for forty or fifty years!
Now the golden age of the martial arts generals is more than fifty!
Although there are few veterans in their seventies and eighties like him, it is not nothing!
Although his skills are a little immature, his brute strength is not small, and over time, he will be another fierce general of the Han family!
Han Rui didn't listen to it at all, his mind was full of the faces of those fellow villagers who had enlisted in the army together.
Although they are not familiar with each other, they are all comrades-in-arms who eat a bite of rice in a pot.
Seeing this, Luan Bu had no choice but to stop quietly, but what he thought in his heart was even stronger.
Honor and disgrace are not shocked, contempt is not shaken, and suddenly you are fortunate to not forget your fellow comrades in the township party...
There's no better soldier than this!
"Old fellow, help me up and go outside."
Hearing that Han Rui's tone was full of gloom, Luan Bu had no choice but to suppress the desire in his heart, helped Han Rui up, and strolled to the school grounds.
The autumn tiger became more and more ruthless, the sun was shining, Han Rui's eyes were in a trance, and he subconsciously squinted his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, the scene in the school yard made Han Rui feel like he was in purgatory.
Corpses everywhere.
The school field, the size of dozens of football fields, was full of corpses.
"After this battle, I'm afraid that there will be ten rooms and nine emptiness in the clouds..."
The casualties of the soldiers were thousands, and the casualties of the civilians outside the city were only feared to be more.