Lan Ziyi was unkempt, his face was full of mud, and his hair had already become lumpy, but this could not stop the tears on his face, and the tears gushing out of Lan Ziyi's eyes rushed out of several furrows on his face, and he grabbed the old soldier's hand and cried silently. At this moment, Lan Ziyi forgot everything, and only knew to cry in front of this person.

The veteran patted Lan Ziyi's hand, and he said to Lan Ziyi:

"Master Hou, don't cry anymore, this is not the place to cry, and now is not the time to cry."

Lan Ziyi choked himself vigorously when he heard this, and he asked with tears in his eyes:

"This brother, dare to ask where my eldest brother is?"

The veteran said in surprise when he heard this:

"Wei Hou doesn't dare to call me that, the villain can't afford it."

Hearing this, Lan Ziyi clenched the veteran tighter, and he asked:

"Brother, just tell me where my eldest brother is? What happened at the South Gate? Ziyi can't stand calling his brother like this. “

The veteran saw that Lan Ziyi was in a hurry, and just hurriedly said to Lan Ziyi:

"Master Hou, don't be in a hurry. When I first escaped, General Zhuhu was still leading his team to fight the demon thieves. “

Lan Ziyi was overjoyed when he heard the good news, but soon his face turned cold again, and he asked:

"Since my eldest brother is still holding on, why are you running away?"

The veteran sighed when he heard this, and said unbearably:

"General Zhuhu and those brothers who stick to it are all good men, and they won't leave anything, and we are left with these people who can only run away after the demon thieves break through the gate."

Lan Ziyi's mouth opened wide in surprise when he heard this, and he asked:

"You said the thief broke through the gate?"

The veteran nodded and replied:

"Yes, Marquis Wei. The thieves got the pointed wooden donkeys out of nowhere, and we had no oil or artillery, and many of the sergeants were drawn out, but the musketeers who had been promised could not come. The thieves attacked fiercely, and there were still many people, and as soon as the gate was broken, the thieves poured in like water, and we ran here after being scattered.

By the way, Weihou, aren't you sticking to the West Gate? We've pulled out a lot of brothers, so why are you here? “

Lan Ziyi heard the veteran ask, and just held back some tears and broke the embankment again. Under the repeated questioning of the veteran, Lan Ziyi replied:

"This brother, don't ask again, I ate a defeated battle at Simon, and the past brother ......"

The old soldier let out a long lament, and then was speechless. After a long time, the veteran soldier mustered up his courage, and he pulled Lan Ziyi and said:

"Weihou, the gates on all sides of the camp have been breached on both sides, and the camp in the north is still inexplicably lit, this place is not suitable for a long time, we have to leave quickly."

Lan Ziyi cried for a long time and vented a lot of the blocks in his chest, and now he can finally wipe his tears and discuss business. Hearing the veteran say this, Lan Ziyi asked:

"I originally wanted to go to the south gate to join my eldest brother, but now my eldest brother himself is unpredictable, where can I go?"

veteran says:

"The east gate, there are still defenders at the east gate, and they haven't been breached yet, so why don't I escort the guards to the east gate."

Lan Ziyi heard this and thought about it, but when he was about to answer, he heard a loud noise on the left hand side behind him, followed by the earth-shattering sound of killing and footsteps.

Lan Ziyi hadn't figured out what was going on, but the veteran looked frightened and pulled Lan Ziyi to leave. Lan Ziyi asked puzzledly:

"Is my brother going to take me to the east gate?"

The veteran sighed:

"What else are you going to the east gate! The east gate is also broken! ”

Lan Ziyi asked in a lost voice:

"Why did my brother say that?"

The veteran replied:

"Did Wei Hou hear that loud noise? This is also the sound when the demon thief smashed open the south gate with a wooden donkey just now. “

When Lan Ziyi heard this, he suddenly remembered that the sound was similar to that when the demon thief at the west gate knocked open the door before.

The old soldier pulled Lan Ziyi, who was a little distracted, and walked towards the north, and the old soldier said as he walked:

"Wei Hou hurry up, if you wait for the rebels at the east gate to come in, you won't be able to leave. I had to go north, and I heard that the north was not surrounded by thieves. “

Lan Ziyi nodded in agreement, and he also followed the veteran and took a step. But Lan Ziyi forgot that his injured foot couldn't walk.

Lan Ziyi was pulled by the veteran and just took a step, but he stumbled, and this time he walked too hard, and Lan Ziyi almost fell.

The veteran who was dragged turned to look at Lan Ziyi, only to find that he had a dirty cloth wrapped around his right foot, and there were blood stains on the outside of the cloth.

The veteran asked:

"Wei Hou, your foot is injured?"

Lan Ziyi nodded and said:

"It's okay to have a small injury. Let's go. “

The veteran exclaimed:

"How can Wei Hou leave like this? It's hard to walk with an injury on your foot, not to mention that you don't even have shoes on either foot. “

The veteran sat down on the ground and reached for his boots. Seeing this, Lan Ziyi asked:

"Brother, what are you doing here?"

veteran says:

"I dragged my boots to you. You are a rich and noble man, where can you walk barefoot? “

Lan Ziyi hurriedly sat down on the ground and pressed the veteran to prevent him from moving, Lan Ziyi said:

"My brother has a wound on his leg, where can he take off his boots? No matter how rich and noble my Lan Ziyi is, I can't harm others and enrich myself, right? “

Hearing this, the veteran stared at Lan Ziyi's eyes for a long time, and his held hand did not move again. But this is not to say that the veteran no longer cares about Lan Ziyi, the veteran quickly turned his head to look around after being silent for a while, and then he found that there was a pile of dead people not far away, where the corpses of the advance team that had entered the camp before were piled up.

When the old soldier saw the pile of dead people, he rushed over with a limp on one leg, lay there and looked for it for a while, and then rushed back again. When he came back, the veteran already had an extra pair of boots in his hand, he took the boots and handed them to Lan Ziyi, saying:

"Wei Hou, I look at these boots and your feet, you quickly put them on.

There are dead people everywhere, Master Hou, why don't you pick up a pair and wear it yourself? “

Lan Ziyi looked at the veteran in front of him who met in Pingshui but cared for him, and the heat wave in his heart warmed his whole person, and Lan Ziyi's tears flowed down again.

Lan Ziyi took the boots and put them on his feet, and he asked:

"I've never met my brother before, and he doesn't seem to be an old friend of my family, so why would my brother delay his escape time to help me?"

The veteran said nonchalantly:

"I see that you are different from those sons and brothers in the capital, you are a good person, and I will definitely help a good person."

Lan Ziyi sighed when he heard this, and then silently put on his boots. Although the boots do not particularly fit, some of them are better to wear than not to wear them at all, and the coldness in the mud is also separated by the cloth on the boots, and no longer penetrates to people.

Lan Ziyi stood up at the same time as the veteran, he looked at the limping veteran, and his eyes were full of the figures of the sergeants who had just gone to Xiyingmen with him. Lan Ziyi thought about the sergeants who were thrown there by himself and let the thieves kill him, and he was ashamed in his heart, those sergeants were all reinforcements drawn from other places, and the relatives and friends of the veteran in front of him were also among them.

Lan Ziyi thought about this and muttered in a low voice:

"I'm not a good person."

Unexpectedly, this self-talking sentence was heard by the veteran, and the veteran smiled innocently:

"Master Hou, if you are willing to say that, you are already a good person."

Then the veteran put Lan Ziyi's right shoulder on his shoulder, and helped Lan Ziyi to go north. veteran says:

"Wei Hou's feet hurt, but you have to endure it."

Lan Ziyi looked at the wound on the veteran's leg that was still bleeding, his heart ached, he wanted to cry very much but there were no tears to cry about, so he could only say:

"Thank you, brother."

The veteran supported Lan Ziyi like this, and the two encouraged them to move forward in the chaotic camp.

When Lan Ziyi and the veteran pushed to the previous crossroads, there were already many deserters scattered along the road at the east gate, but fortunately, the demon thieves were still far away, and we still saw threats in Lan Ziyi's field of vision.

The deserters on the east and west sides and the deserters on the south gathered together and asked each other in horror where to go, while Lan Ziyi went north with the support of the veteran, and Lan Ziyi said to the veteran:

"The fire in the big camp was lit by King De, and King De has already run away with the cavalry and the Shenji battalion in the camp."

When the veteran heard this, he asked:

"In that case, why didn't Wei Hou run with King De?"

Lan Ziyi smiled bitterly:

"First, the king of Germany will not take me at all, and second, today's battle should not be like this at all, the big camp can be held.

Now that it has been lost on all sides, and the last military strength of the capital is buried in my hands, who else can stop the demon thieves now? What face do I have to go back to Beijing to see the emperor? “

Lan Ziyi let out a long sigh after saying this, and then he and the veteran both fell into silence.

An old man and a young man walked on the road in the camp like this, beside them were the fire and the scattered sergeants, Lan Ziyi felt that he had returned to Shouchun City again, and the people around him were no longer soldiers, and the camp without food had exhausted their morale, and the rain had dried up their courage. Now these people are just ordinary people who are bent on running for their lives, and they have nothing to fight again.

Lan Ziyi walked in the chaotic army, and experienced the sense of defeat that only the demon thief had when he took advantage of the victory to chase the north. This feeling is very unpleasant, but Lan Ziyi is already numb. Maybe there will be many such failures in the future, and maybe this is the fact that victory and defeat are common in soldiers.

Lan Ziyi and the veterans passed through the lit tent, in order to enjoy himself in the camp, King De specially transported parts from the capital to decorate, as far as Lan Ziyi is concerned, King De's big tent is a hundred times more magnificent than the cowardly Khan's royal tent on the grassland, and after lighting this bonfire is more spectacular than all the grassland bonfires that Lan Ziyi has ever seen, you just think about it, and there is a bonfire smoke with the smell of sandalwood?

The veteran helped Lan Ziyi to continue walking, he looked at the lit tent and said:

"I don't know how many treasures are in it, just such a fire, all of them are gone."

Then the veteran said:

"Wei Hou, work harder, we will be at the north gate soon."

Lan Ziyi shook his head and said:

"King De has taken everything he can take away, what can he do when he gets to the north gate?"