An Ili River isolated the Ming from the Manchus, who ceded the area north of the Ili River to Russia in an attempt to separate them from the Ming by introducing Russians as their barrier. Breaking the top ten, if you want to attack the Qing Dynasty, you must first attack the Russians.

The calculations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were shrewd. But he never wanted to steal chickens and rice, facing the attack of the Ming Kingdom, and his tough attitude all the time. The Russians threw large tracts of land to the Ming Dynasty with little effective resistance, which also led to the collapse of the Manchu wishful thinking.

They lost their wives and broke their soldiers. had to face the approach of the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the Iri River has become the default "national border" between the two sides. It is said that it is a national border between the two sides, but in fact it is just a thousand miles of no-man's land. The massacre turned the already sparsely populated prairie into a vast no-man's land, leaving the two sides with no chance of conflict.

So all along, the banks of the Ili River were extremely quiet. There has never been a presence of two armies.

But now all this is broken.

After several years of peace, war broke out.

Tens of thousands of troops quickly swept away the Manchu outposts on the south bank of the Ili River and crossed the river. The army then marched along the open steppe. The time grassland is full of red columns.

The white clouds slowly move from south to north, the western regions in June, it is in the scorching heat, the weather is sultry, but the wind on the grassland makes people feel a little cool, this empty prairie and the snow-capped mountains in the distance, give people a feeling of desolation.

This uninhabited grassland, lying so lonely under the rolling mountains, the snow-capped mountains that can be seen in the distance are particularly eye-catching under the blue sky and white clouds.

In the half-human grassland, occasionally a herd of yellow sheep galloped by, and at the same time, a group of people and horses marched in this grassland.

"That's a lot of mosquitoes!"

Speaking a little stiff Chinese, Yang Sen raised his hand to fight mosquitoes in front of him from time to time, even if he came from the deep mountains and dense forests of Guizhou, he was surprised by the number of mosquitoes here.

So much so that when marching, mosquitoes will always slap their faces. Got into the seams.

"There are so many here, I heard that in some places, there are many mosquitoes flying together, and they can bite people to death...... Phew, phew, in my mouth. ”

Wang Dong, who had a mosquito in his mouth, spit out a lot of saliva, wanting to spit out the mosquito.

However, most of the people around them are curiously looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, they are not strangers to the mountains from the deep mountains in the southwest, but those bare rocky mountains and snow-capped mountains are still fresh to them.

On the way here, they were also surprised by the vastness of the plains, and they had never seen such a vast world from the mountains.

But now, looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, they will even imagine how high and cold the snow-capped mountains are.

Carrying the firearm on his shoulder, Yang Sen looked at the half-human deep weeds around him, and couldn't help but mutter.

"You say, in such a good place, why is there no one farming? You see, how close this place is to the river, bring a canal to bring it over, and this field is a good paddy field. ”

Even though he is not fluent in Chinese, Yang Sen, who has been out of the mountains for 13 years, like his Han neighbors, thinks about how to grow crops on the land when he sees it.

There is no difference between him and the Han people now. In fact, his comrades-in-arms have largely cleaned up like this. And in many cases, they also think that they are Han Chinese. Not only is this not resistant, but even quite proud.

"Because all men have been killed."

The captain on the side looked at the brothers and shouted loudly.

"Brothers, you have to know, what kind of enemy we are facing this time, it is completely different from what we have faced in the past, this group of guys are a group of dogs who take pleasure in killing, when they invaded the Ming Dynasty, they killed the people indiscriminately, and the people of the world were killed in ten rooms and nine emptiness, they came here, and they killed all the local men, as for the women, they were robbed by them, and gave birth to children for them, in the past, there were millions of natives living here, and now they have been killed, and those who are alive are women……”

The captain's words made Yang Sen couldn't help but say.

"What a damn bunch."

"No, it's really not a thing, and we can't spare them when the time comes."

Like mobilization on the battlefield, these warriors from the southwest, their emotions were quickly stirred up by the brutality of the enemy.

These warriors from the southwestern mountains, their feelings are simple, they believe that their duty is to protect the people, they have gone deep into the mountains countless times, put down the rebellion just to let the people live a good life, and now, when they learn of the atrocities of the Manchus, their hearts immediately swelled with bursts of anger.

It was hard for them to imagine what kind of people could commit such atrocities. In their opinion, it is difficult for even a group of beasts to commit such atrocities.

When the brothers sighed, Zhang Yue silently carried the fire gun and continued to move forward, in the whole team, he has always been the most taciturn one, in fact, originally he liked to talk, but since last year, after a battle into the mountain, he has become rarely talking.

Everyone knew why, because the mountain barbarians attacked the village, so they were ordered to go into the mountain to clear it, in order to reduce casualties, he suggested to the captain to set fire, and soon the fire engulfed the village of the mountain seedlings, and the result can be imagined, there are not many people alive in the whole village.

Although he was honored for his meritorious service, he has since become reticent.

In this way, as Zhang Yue walked silently with the troops, he still walked and rested like the past marches, and walked and walked. He rarely speaks, almost as if he is a bystander, at most he occasionally glances up at his comrades.

For the next three days, although the march continued, the patience of all men was running out little by little—for three days they did not see a single enemy, not even a single person, and there was not a single human being in this open land.

This uninhabited no-man's land made every soldier feel an inexplicable depression, and even made their emotions more and more depressed. Sometimes, when they find some human bones in the meadow, they also become silent, and seem to understand why this place has become a no-man's land.

There used to be many herders living here, but now, they have all disappeared, all disappeared under the butcher's knife of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This uninhabited world seems very silent and desolate. And there are so many tragic stories behind this. Only those skulls that can be seen occasionally in the grass. It will remind people that there was once a place where people were inhabited.

And now everything is ruined by the slaughter. Destroyed in the midst of atrocities rarely seen in the world.

But such a quiet world is also consuming people's hearts, making everyone a little irritable, when will they meet the enemy?

Even if it's an enemy sentinel that gives them a chance to make a charge. It can also let them pass the boring march. Make this boring time a little more fulfilling.

Far away, when he saw that there seemed to be a pillbox on the distant mountain, Janssen looked there, and then tore his throat and shouted:

"Look! Let's see if it's an enemy bunker, if only there were people in it! ”

As soon as his words fell, Wang Dong continued

"You kid is dreaming, even if there are people, it won't be our turn, so the cavalry will already be cleaned up!"

"Isn't it, just a bunker, and the cavalry on guard can clean it up?"

"Why are you so happy? There's definitely no one there,"

Wang Dong felt strange and asked loudly.

"No one, no one, it doesn't matter, you see, now that you have encountered the bunker, you may be able to meet Jiannu soon." Yang Sen's emotions became a little excited, and he looked at the bunker and said.

"When the time comes, we'll be able to fight a good fight."

"Fight? And with whom? You have to be able to touch people."

"Yes! No one, who are you doing it with? And the mosquitoes in this grass? Or a rabbit in the grass? ”

"Rabbits? In my case, those dog things are rabbits. One by one, they escaped faster than rabbits. ”

"Anyway, I don't believe that those Jiannu can escape one by one, and they won't be able to meet us."

As he spoke, Yang Sen took out an unfinished cigarette from his pocket, and then gave one to Wang Dong, and said while smoking.

"How big can this world be, even if they withdraw, they will not be able to get a head, I estimate, at most in two or three days, they will definitely have to meet us."

"Meet us? When the western expedition to Shaanxi was made, the Manchu Qing Dynasty didn't even hit two guns, so they fled like a rabbit. One escape is thousands of miles. ”

"But no, I really don't understand how these dogs and days got in."

"Isn't it still Wu Sangui's ......?"

"If I want to say that it was still the rogues of the year, if it wasn't for the rogues who seized the capital, how could the Manchus get in? sat in the world and killed so many people. ”

Just as the big guy was saying a word, suddenly, a herald rode quickly past them from the front, and they couldn't help muttering as they looked at the cavalry passing quickly.

"Could it be that there is movement ahead?"

As they spoke, they even lifted their toes and looked ahead, although they knew that they couldn't see that far at all, but they still wanted to see clearly ahead, to find out if there was a fight in front of them, at least, whether they had touched someone.

After walking for almost an hour, finally, the sharp-eyed Wang Dong pointed ahead and said.

"Look, that bunker is smoking!"

"There is a corpse next to it, it's Jiannu!"

"Jiannu, Jiannu is there......"

When the soldiers who had long been lonely heard this, they all picked up the guys one after another, and they looked like they wanted to kill the past.

"Hey, don't think about it, it's just a sentry of more than a dozen people, let the cavalry charge and solve it!"

As they said, the Qing army's guard posts could not take the turn of these infantry at all, and the forward cavalry easily eliminated them, and did not even leave them with soup, but this did not prevent them from looking at the corpses on the ground.

"This is Jiannu!"

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Wang Dong thought in his heart.

"You see, they don't look like we do."

"No, it looks a bit like a lustful person."

Even if it is a dead corpse, it can also give them some information, why their nose bridge is a little high, and their appearance is different from that of the Han people, and other discoveries make these warriors from the southwest always feel a little fresh.

"Do you know why they look like the Lustful Eye? Because their mothers are all lustful women snatched by Jiannu, the cubs born are naturally a bit like lustful people, just like the babies born to Western maids that some people marry. ”

In fact, these things do not need to be explained, the unexpected appearance of the corpse made the soldiers see their enemies for the first time, know the appearance of the enemy, and also made the boring march finally have some changes, making people have some "yearning" for the days to come. At least now they finally saw the enemy, even if it was a dead one.

"I guess Jiannu will definitely be waiting for us somewhere."

The appearance of several enemy corpses made the fighters a little excited. We are also looking forward to the future.

"Ahead, ahead, how far is it?"

Wang Dong asked ignorantly.

"Is it fifty miles, or is it a hundred?"

"If it's a few hundred miles, then we don't have to die in a hurry?"

Yang Sen became anxious and shouted:

"If they dare to let us walk a few hundred miles before we meet us, then I will kill all of my grandfather!"

As soon as his words fell, Zhang Yue, who had been silent, suddenly said.

"Stay? Why stay, didn't the captain say it? Not a single one to stay! ”

He has been silent. When he said this, the big guys didn't say anything. Even, as if they hadn't heard, they each took a cigarette out of his pocket. I smoked a cigarette.

No one seems to want to talk about it. Actually, everyone knows that. There are always things that need to be done. But who wants to say it at this time?

"Not a single one remains. We won't be able to keep them when the time comes. ”

Zhang Yue said to himself,

"Well, it's just a bunch of brutes, a bunch of beasts that are inferior to beasts, let's come here and completely wipe out this bunch of brutes from here. Those who scold people, people will be sand, they have killed so many people, this is God's retribution for them, we are doing the right thing for heaven. ”

Walk for the heavens.

They had heard this a lot along the way, the commanders said. What is about to happen in this land is not because of hatred, but because of the intolerable nature. Because God wants to take those who are not as good as beasts. And they, though, are just God's hand borrowing their hands to clean up what these beasts are inferior.

"Yes, it's for heaven."

Suddenly, there was a man among the brethren who spoke.

"If it weren't for the heavens, why would we have walked thousands of miles to get here?"

As soon as his voice fell, someone on the side answered

"It's not because there is a way in heaven that we are here!"