The campfire was still blazing, and the crackling of wood being burned to the point of explosion could be heard from time to time, but it was extraordinarily quiet.

Temutel knelt down on one knee in front of Kelie, and kept the Humeng etiquette of touching his chest with his right hand, although there was already a slight pain in his leg, but the man above did not speak, even if a knife slashed at him at this time, he would definitely not shrink his head.

Although this short-tempered and extremely aggressive General Humont always looks unruly in front of others, in front of Kelie, he is like a natural allegiance to the other party, let life be life, death is death, and there is no will to deviate from it, maybe this is the fate destined by many people.

"That's how it should be." Anyway, Kelie thinks so, so for such a loyal and extremely martial servant, he is naturally reluctant to do anything, unless he is in a situation of last resort.

But then again, who can let him experience the feeling of "last resort" at the moment.

Kerry smiled a little proudly, but the next moment, a figure flashed in his mind, making the smile that flashed on his face stiffen a little.

Temutel remained on his knees, bowing his head and not seeing the rich expression on Kelie's face, otherwise he would have thought that Kelie was struggling with how to execute him.

"How many people did you bring back?" The lukewarm words came from the mouth of Kolie and into Temutel's ears.

Temuter's expression was extremely gloomy at this time, but the voice that answered Kelie was still loud: "Yu Khan, there are 5,426 people from the eastern group, 8,268 people from the southern group, 5,071 people from the western group, 11,351 people from the northern group, and 13,806 seriously wounded. ”

"In other words, the 60,000 elites I gave you, you took it out and slipped around, and you broke it in half?"

"The minister is willing to bear all the responsibility for this battle, please punish the Khan!" Seeing that Kelie seemed to be angry, Temutel originally had some luck and completely lost his thoughts, and once again lowered his extremely arrogant head in front of others, quietly waiting for Kelie's fate.

……

The north gate of Shema was once again opened by the knights who had returned from afar, like a giant beast that had not opened its mouth for a long time, and the deep street was like its throat, with its open mouth, greedily breathing in the cold air outside, blowing the doors and windows on both sides of the street rustling.

Those wandering merchants who were trapped here because of the siege of Humeng, at this time, also went south to Liangcheng at their fastest speed, after all, it was the safest place in the whole Dingzhou, and it was convenient to go everywhere, but there was wind and grass, and it was a big deal to go south to Shuzhou or east to Caizhou.

Therefore, at this time, the town of Xiema was basically full of Yan officers and soldiers, and of course, there were still some border refugees who entered it to seek refuge, and when the Yan army confirmed their identity, they did not hesitate to accept them.

At this time, the former Qiu Xin's battalion commander's mansion, because Hao Zifeng temporarily settled here, it also became the military command center of Xiema Town again, and two tired soldiers sat on one side of the Eight Immortals table, struggling to deal with the large bowl of broth in the right hand and the white-flour steamed bun in the left hand.

There were still five or six steamed buns on the table in front of them, and behind the steamed buns, Hao Zifeng sat on his side, and Yan Wuji and Qiu Heng sat on his left and right.

Qiu Heng is the head of the six battalion commanders of the Blade Army, so it is understandable for him to sit, and Yan Wuji is the young marshal of the Northwest Army, and the future head of the family, naturally no one will have any objections, but the two little soldiers on the opposite side who are still working hard also dare to eat and drink in front of them, which makes the few people standing behind Hao Zifeng a little uncomfortable, especially the sixth battalion commander, if it weren't for Hao Zifeng's presence in the town, it is estimated that he would immediately arrest these two people and punish them.

"I don't know which tendon of the military marshal is wrong, that young marshal Yan doesn't understand the rules of the army, so it's okay to let the two soldiers eat with him, the military marshal can tolerate the two soldiers on an equal footing with him." The commander of the sixth battalion muttered and complained to himself, and never looked at the two of them from beginning to end.

Compared with others, although Zhang Erhu was also a little surprised, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and he didn't know if it was Hao Zifeng's instruction or his own decision, at this time, he was standing behind Yan Wuji, side by side with Liu Zhilan, not behind Hao Zifeng.

Clear-eyed people can naturally see the meaning, but Hao Zifeng did not show any abnormality in this.

"Can you eat it?" Hao Zifeng saw that the two of them temporarily put down the dishes and chopsticks in their hands, wiped their mouths a little restrainedly, and asked out loud, this is his biggest, although these two soldiers are under Yan Wuji's command, but obviously Hao Zifeng has more power to speak first at this time.

The two quickly stood up from their positions, clasped their fists respectfully and said, "Commander of the army, commander of the battalion...... Battalion commanders. "Obviously, they haven't experienced such a big scene yet, the most they used to see was a Qiu Xin, and in their minds, they were already a big official.

Unexpectedly, there were six or seven battalion commanders in one breath, and there was a military commander who was bigger than the battalion commander, so for a while, I didn't know how to deal with it, but there was such an episode, and the latter two talked about business, and they were much calmer, which shows that their psychological quality must be very strong.

I only heard the soldier continue: "By the order of the Yan Battalion Marshal, our team since the retreat of the Humeng people, all the way north to inquire about the news, at the junction of Dingzhou and Humeng, we encountered a large force of Humeng cavalry, we thought that we only met the cavalry of a certain tribe of Humeng, but when we bypassed them, the scene we saw immediately denied our previous speculation, sure enough, as expected by the Yan Camp Marshal, the Humeng people gathered an extremely large number of troops there, although we have never seen this scale, but according to our experience, At least no less than 100,000 people. ”

The generals who heard the news glanced at each other, and they all understood that this Humeng's retreat was just to accumulate strength for the next more fierce attack.

"See their flags?" Hao Zifeng asked again, seemingly eager to know this information.

The soldier nodded, "Different from the Humeng army flags that surrounded Xiema Town this time, the flags used by the Humeng army are all white triangular checkered flags, and a white velvet ...... is tied to the top of the flag."

Before the soldiers could finish speaking, Hao Zifeng suddenly asked in a hurry: "Is the flag embroidered with a black wolf head?" ”

A look of confusion appeared on the soldier's face, and another soldier added, "How does the commander know?" Because the wolf's head is realistically embroidered, I remember it very clearly. ”

"No wonder! No wonder! Hao Zifeng said two sentences in a row, which made the generals around him even more puzzled.

"Marshal, what's the wonder? Can you talk to us? Qiu Heng was steady, but at this time, seeing that Hao Zifeng would actually look like this, he couldn't help but ask.

Yan Wuji raised his eyes to look at Hao Zifeng, and said word by word: "But Humeng Khan is personally recruited!" ”

Hao Zifeng nodded, as if the strength of his whole body had been taken away, and said quite weakly: "Exactly!" ”

……

Approaching the night, the sky once again floated dense snowflakes like rain, at this time it was past early winter, the temperature in the northwest night could have dropped to below zero, Yan Wuji stood alone on the east city wall, looking towards the southeast, where there was still a little bit of sunlight that was not blocked by the horizon, and this piece of drifting snowflakes was shining brightly.

It was in this place that Zhu Ziming, who was fighting hard, was stabbed through the heart by Aluka with the tip of a gun, Yan Wuji knew that he wanted to drag Aluka at that time, so that Qiu Xin had enough time to retreat, but in front of the extreme martial arts cultivators, even if they were experienced in a hundred battles, they seemed so powerless.

I don't know what Zhu Ziming will think when he sees Qiu Xin below, whether he will feel that his sacrifice is in vain, and I don't know what kind of expression Liu Debiao will have after seeing the two of them, he should be happy, after all, the three of them can get together again, and they don't have to forget to sleep and eat to protect their families and defend the country.

From the beginning of spring to the present, the four seasons have not yet completed a reincarnation, but the town of Xiema has become a person, and the people who grew up with him at the beginning have now gone eighty percent, and the only people who can still speak around him are Liu Zhilan, Jia Chong and Song Tao.

Zhang Erhu's guy should be able to be counted as one, Yan Wuji probably thinks so.

"What is the battalion commander thinking?" Liu Zhilan's voice, now even if Yan Wuji covers his ears, he can hear that it is Liu Zhilan's unique duck voice, and only he can find himself anytime and anywhere.

"Remembering the old people?" Seeing that Yan Wuji didn't answer, Liu Zhilan asked himself again and helped Yan Wuji answer.

"Sir, what a roundworm in my stomach!" Yan Wuji looked at the other party with some amusement, he had already understood Liu Zhilan's ability in these aspects.

Liu Zhilan shook his head and smiled, "I really don't know if the battalion commander is praising the last general, or arranging the last general." ”

Yan Wuji didn't seem to want to dwell on this issue anymore, looking at the snowfall in front of him, he suddenly asked, "Sir, do you still have family?" ”

Liu Zhilan obviously didn't expect Yan Wuji to ask him this question this time, and without psychological preparation, he could only hesitate for a while, not knowing how to answer.

"It's okay, I'm just asking."

"It's gone!" Liu Zhilan said categorically, and then added a little weakly, "It's gone." ”

As soon as the words were opened, they became a little unable to hold their mouths, this is Liu Zhilan's consistent style, and Yan Wuji sometimes buried his words, that is, "Pretend to be reserved!" ”

"I didn't have a family when I was 10 years old." Liu Zhilan said very plainly, as if he was telling a story that had nothing to do with him, maybe so many years have passed, even the memory has faded into a blank, not to mention the feelings.

Yan Wuji knew that his family was implicated by Yan Youchu's matter, and was sent to this bitter cold place, and it happened that Hu Meng crossed the Broken Sky Trench and went south at that time, so it was not easy to survive in that environment.

"They all died at the hands of the Humon, that's why you want to join the army." Yan Wuji was not proud of this reasoning, after all, there was no sense of accomplishment in this kind of obvious thing.

But to his surprise, Liu Zhilan shook his head and said: "It's not Hu Meng, it's Yan Bing, I escaped because I was hidden by them." ”

The other party's surprise and doubts did not make Liu Zhilan gain a sense of accomplishment, because he was just expounding one fact, "But I am still a Yan person after all, even if I can give up this soul, I can't give up this body of flesh and blood, every drop of his blood flows with the breath of Yan Kingdom, I can't forget my childhood playmates, I can't forget my father who helped me, I can't forget the girl who gave me half a steamed bun, whenever I think of those Yan soldiers who killed my parents, I think of them, and then tell myself that there are bad people everywhere, But there will always be more good people. ”

Yan Wuji smiled, he really wanted to ask him just now why he chose to join Yan Jun instead of Hu Meng.

Yes, there are bad people everywhere in this world, but there will always be more good people.