Preface:

"Do you want to continue? Use your dance to tear away the disgust in your heart. Even at the cost of turning yourself into an evil spirit. There is no humanity, not even earthly memories. Are you willing?" Gu asked.

"On the defensive line to the north of the Qing Empire, there are always groups of people who are eyeing each other as they were before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. As a general of the Qing Empire, how could I abandon such a cursed dance that could defend my homeland. I think that even if I become a heinous villain, I will still defend the land of the Qing Dynasty. Regrets. ”

Body:

In the northern frontier of the Qing Empire, there is the only existing female general of the Qing Empire - Nalan Yan, who has practiced martial arts since she was a child and has excellent martial arts. At the age of twenty, the emperor issued an edict allowing the only woman to enter the martial arts examination venue. Her riding and archery skills defeated all the men who took the test, and in the contest of spears, guns, and swords, she always won with skill, avoiding their edges. In the end, he won the title of martial champion with the first result in martial arts. The emperor thought she was a strange woman, summoned her personally, and granted her the position of governor of Zhejiang, the governor of Zhejiang, and the affairs of Zhejiang.

However, she refused to accept it and expressed her thoughts: "Zhejiang, adjacent to Kyoto, and for all dynasties, the people have been rich and orderly. As a martial champion, I don't want to live in such a stable place, so I ask the emperor to send me to the front line to fight the enemy and make meritorious contributions. ”

After her repeated pleas, the Emperor reluctantly agreed. When she was sent to the northern frontier, the emperor privately said to the male generals of the army: "You are the general, she is the deputy general, for her, even if the enemy army comes to attack, do not order her to fight, first, let a woman go to war on the battlefield, I am afraid that the enemy will laugh at it, saying that there is no one to fight in our Qing Empire, and then hit the morale of our army; ”

The general's name was "Dorman", and he was ordered to march north. There were 3,000 troops and horses in Nalan Yan's headquarters, and the 3,000 men were led by a woman, and many of them did not obey. In this way, the training is loose and the morale is low. Nalan Yan personally trained, but there were still many people who refused to accept the management. Nalan Yan became angry and said: "I will fight against you, if you defeat me, I will immediately resign as a deputy general, if I am defeated, in the future, I will not obey my orders, and military law will be engaged." After speaking, several big men walked out of the team and said, "That, offended." "Raise your fist and rush. Nalan Yan, tilting his head slightly to dodge the main fist, first beat a strong man with a sweeping leg like a king with four claws facing the sky, unable to move, and then, his left hand changed to his right hand, and his right hand changed to his left hand, and slapped another big man ten times. Embarrassed and annoyed, the two strong men rolled on the ground, shouting and attacking with their teeth and claws. Nalan Yan's body was as light as a swallow, and he jumped over the top of the two of them, and when the two of them looked at the air, their left and right legs exerted their strength together, only to hear the sound of "poof" twice, and the two strong men fell to the ground, not daring to get up again.

In the barracks group, laughing, those others who were not convinced, where did they dare to challenge. This incident allowed Nalan Yan to establish prestige in the army, and no one did not obey her words. One of her glances can make a person smile, or it can make a person feel terrified.

During the one-year stay in northern Xinjiang, ethnic minorities in the north invaded the border three times. General Dorman ordered the other male generals to attack the enemy. The only thing is not Nalan Yan. The ethnic minorities in the north are brave and good at fighting, and those male generals have been defeated again and again. In the end, Dorman had no way to come out, so he simply stuck to the gate and defended passively. This looks really ridiculous, there are hundreds of people in the enemy military area outside, and 30,000 soldiers in the city. I was shocked by the enemy.

Nalan Yan asked for help many times, but Dorman refused, the reason being: "Although the enemy army is outnumbered, it is brave and good at fighting, and these hundreds of people dare to camp outside the city, their large army must be ambushed behind, and they must not be fooled." ”

Nalan Yan argued: "The thieves are just because we have repeatedly retreated and strengthened our rat guts, and now is the perfect opportunity to defeat them, how can we sit idly by!"

"Do you mean that I, Dorman, am afraid of thieves and soldiers, and be a turtle with a shrunken head?! You are so bold that you dare to speak up in front of me, you are just my lieutenant general, you don't obey military orders, I can execute you at any time!"

Nalan Yan sneered and withdrew from the General's Mansion.

But there was not much time, and a soldier reported to the general's mansion: "Adjutant General Nalan has brought his headquarters to meet the enemy." ”

"Oh no! a woman wants to die?!" Dorman said, but in fact he had other plans in his heart, "When I left Beijing, the emperor specially asked me not to hurt her, if she had three longs and two shorts, I would be in great trouble." So Dorman mounted his horse and led his army of 15,000 men out of the city.

Who knows, just as he was about to leave the city, another sergeant came to report that Nalan Yan had wiped out the enemy army outside the city, and now he had led the prisoners and the army horses of his headquarters to the city gate.

"How is General Nalan?" said Dorman, grim.

"The general, unscathed, and not a single soldier was lost. It can be described as a return of great victory. ”

Hearing this, Dorman's heart breathed a sigh of relief.

When Nalan Yan came to his side, Dorman shouted: "Tie me up, drag it out and cut it off!" Two axe men came out on both sides and were about to make a move.

I saw Nalan Yan's generals and sergeants kneeling down and pleading for mercy. But Dorman still hasn't changed his mind. After a while, I saw that the people around Dorman also knelt down and pleaded, and said: "The general is angry, although Adjutant Nalan has violated the military order, but he has returned with a great victory, which can be described as a combination of merit and demerit." In addition, there is a lack of generals in northern Xinjiang who can fight well, and the loss of such generals may outweigh the losses. ”

Dorman pondered for a moment and said, "The Nian people will intercede for you, and you will not die today, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped." Twenty sticks were beaten as punishment. The next time you do it again, your life will be over. ”

Dorman's above-mentioned performance is actually to establish prestige for himself, and in a superficial sense, he is deliberately taking out a high-level attitude in exchange for face.

not only punished Nalan Yan, but also did not hinder the emperor's face.

Although Nalan Yan's incident made her punished, it established a higher prestige in the whole army.

In another three years, at the age of seventy, Dorman asked to resign from his post as general of Northern Xinjiang and recommended Nalan Yan as the de facto administrator of Northern Xinjiang. Dorman stated more than a dozen reasons for dealing with the situation in the table: first, although Nalan Yan was a female general, she was superb in martial arts, extraordinary in weaponry, and had a fairly high military acumen; second, after several years of experience, Nalan Yan became more sophisticated in handling things, and her military experience was more pure; third, Nalan Yan could unite the hearts of the whole army with words and deeds, which was an indispensable condition for a handsome talent; and fourth, the enemy troops in northern Xinjiang often despised female generals, so they often went deep alone and failed...... Wait.

The emperor allowed many Ermen to return to their hometowns, but they were still at ease with Nalan Yan.

When he was about to send the generals who stayed in Kyoto to replace Nalan Yan, suddenly, there was a battle situation in the northern Xinjiang, saying that the northern Mongolian Duosi Khan attacked the northern Xinjiang with 30,000 cavalry. The emperor was shocked and ordered the Kyoto general Ropeway and the army of 50,000 to go to support.

However, halfway through the march of the horses, news came that the enemy army had been routed.

The rescue troops withdrew, and soon after, the victory document was transmitted to the Beijing Division, to the effect that the defender Nalan Yan designed to flank the enemy left and right, and quietly ambushed the ambush soldiers ten miles behind, and Nalan Yan personally led the troops to attack, and defeated the enemy with the ambush soldiers.

The emperor immediately replied to the document and appointed Nalan Yan as the general of the northern frontier and commanded all the military horses.

Kyoto is far away from the northern frontier, and many details of the war are naturally unknown.

But rumors arose in the northern lands.

On that day, Nalan Yan led his army horses to meet the enemy army, although Nalan Yan himself was unstoppable, but the other soldiers could not resist the attack of the Mongol cavalry. Obviously, they are highly trained and have a good fight. In addition, the army led by Nalan Yan had only 5,000 horses, but it engaged the main force of the enemy. This is also the reason why the enemy cannot resist. Eventually, the 5,000 men were scattered. Nalan Yan was hunted down alone.

When they reached the mouth of a valley, the Nalan Yan people were sleepy and tired, and they no longer fled. It was besieged by thousands of enemy troops.

The enemy soldiers shouted surrender and death. I saw Nalan Yan draw her sword and cut her wrist, and what flowed from her wrist was not blood, but yellow and bright liquid. Then the liquid transformed into a sword visible to the naked eye, and Nalan Yan's body emitted a golden light.

The Mongol cavalry was shocked, they thought that Nalan Yan was a god descending from heaven, and they dismounted and knelt down one after another. I saw Nalan Yan raise the sword and wave it in place, it was not an attack, it was more like a dance in the name of the sword.

However, it was a dance of death. One by one, the prostrate enemies fell to the ground and vomited blood and died, and when she stopped wielding, the corpses of thousands of enemy soldiers lay at her feet.

It is not known who started this rumor, but the soldiers in the northern Xinjiang will be suspicious.

Later, northern Xinjiang experienced several revenge attacks by the Mongol cavalry. But they were all routed by Nalan Yan's army, and they suffered heavy casualties. Every time he led tens of thousands of horses, only a few hundred remnants of the army fled.

As the number of battles increased, rumors about the general of the northern frontier spread more and more widely, and even spread to the people of Kyoto. That's where Gu heard about it.

After hearing this, Gu planned to visit this powerful female general in person.

Northern Xinjiang is located in a remote area and has a long way to go. Gu endured a lot of hardships and took months to get there.

Seeing that Gu was dressed strangely, the defenders of Northern Xinjiang thought he was a spy, tied him up, and escorted him to the commander of the headquarters. The commander was a young male officer. asked and asked, but didn't ask what was wrong, but in my heart I felt that the person in front of me was very much like a spy. went to tell his boss, who happened to discuss with Nalan Yan. When she heard that, she wanted to meet the man herself.

I saw that the man was full of white hair, but he was in his twenties, and the long white hair on his right side covered his right eye, so he couldn't see his appearance clearly.

"Who are you, and what are your intentions here?" said the general next to her.

Gu coughed dryly twice and said, "Bring me a glass of water." ”

She ordered someone to fetch water, and Gu's hand was tied behind her back, so she opened her mouth and took it. The person with the kettle poured it all in one go, and Gu was overwhelmed, choked twice, and coughed.

"Who the hell are you?!" the general asked again.

"Look at my right eye. Gu said lightly.

The general brushed his hair away, only to see that Gu's right eye was hollow, and there seemed to be a black substance swimming in it.

The general took a few steps back and fell to the ground in fear.

"You all stand down, and I'll talk to him alone. ”

The only two of them were left in the room.

"You should know why I asked the general's men to pull away the hair that covered my right eye. ”

"Yes. ”

"General Nalan, is your wrist aching?"

"Yes. ”

"You answered so calmly, you should know that there is something in your body, right?"

Nalan Yan nodded in affirmative.

"That kind of thing, just like the thing in my right eye, the thing in my right eye is one of the most evil things in the spirit seed, 'Gu', its existence not only erodes my body, but also does not allow me to live somewhere for long. Because the 'Gu' feeds on the flesh of a person, one day it will eat the whole flesh of a person. I have no choice, I choose to become a spirit master, only by becoming a spirit master, can I have the spiritual power to inhibit Gu from eroding my body; on the other hand, Gu has the physique to gather other spirits, so living in a certain place for a long time will always attract other spirit species, which will break the balance of the spirit and lead to disaster. And the spirit seed in the general's body is '魉', it is also one of the most evil spirit seeds, after entering the human body, it will make people's bodies flexible, and learn anything faster than ordinary people. However, this is only its appearance, and its evil lies in the fact that it can control people's consciousness in times of crisis, so that people can generate powerful evil powers, and kill everything that threatens them without consciousness. Controlled once or twice, the host can regain its original consciousness after the seizure, but, if left unchecked, it will devour the host's consciousness at any time, and the host will become an inhuman alien. ”

"Dance of the Spell. Nalan Yan muttered to herself.

Gu was taken aback, and thought to herself: "Generally speaking, she doesn't have any consciousness when she is controlled by the fish, but she can still remember the ritual of the attack, that is, her body is not controlled, and her mind is still lucid to a certain extent. ”

"That's right, when the Monkey controls its consciousness, its ritual is the Dance of the Curse, the Dance with the Curse, and in general, it requires the blood of the host, and the moment it cuts its wrist, the bright yellow Ray will suck the color of the host's blood. And with the help of wounds, the whole body erodes. Gives off its own bright yellow color. Gu added.

Nalan Yan looked at her left wrist and saw five or six scars.

"General, you can't rely on it!" Gu said excitedly.

"There's no way around it. Every time the enemy attacked, they were well prepared, and our horses were no match for them at all, and I was in danger many times, thinking that I was dying. However, at that time, my body would perform such rituals uncontrollably. I felt like my whole body was glowing, and then I lost consciousness. When I recovered, the battlefield was full of enemy corpses. Nalan Yan recalled.

"I hope the general will return to Kyoto, your rumors have been circulating in Kyoto, and it is not good for your reputation. At this time, retreating can not only break the rumors, but also allow yourself to recuperate and no longer be in danger. The sore can be suppressed. ”

"No, I'm not leaving. She stood up.

"Do you want to continue? Use your dance to tear away the disgust in your heart. Even at the cost of turning yourself into an evil spirit. There is no humanity, not even earthly memories. Are you willing?"

"On the defensive line to the north of the Qing Empire, there are always groups of people who are eyeing each other as they were before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. As a general of the Qing Empire, how could I abandon such a cursed dance that could defend my homeland. I think that even if I become a heinous villain, I will still defend the land of the Qing Dynasty. Regrets. ”

"Go quickly, I thank you for coming all the way here to give me advice, we have found out that the Mongol cavalry is going to attack again. I don't want you to be the object of protection that prevents me from fighting. ”

She loosened her ties for Gu. Let's go.

Gu knew that he couldn't enlighten her no matter what, so he could only leave.

A month later, there was news that shocked the nation. The horses of the Northern Xinjiang army and the Mongol cavalry perished. I heard that the bones of General Nalan Yan are gone.

"Sadly, have you been completely devoured by the Devil, becoming a source of evil, killing enemies, killing men, and finally taking away your body. If you are so stubborn, should you praise or refute it?" Gu shook his head and sighed.