Chapter 11: A Hard Night
Wei Qing led the elite of the Great Han to the north to realize his intention of attacking Dragon City.
Ruoyao and Wang Qilin took the rest of the soldiers to the innermost part of the valley for a few miles.
It is easy to defend and one of the few valleys in this grassland.
In order not to attract the attention of the Huns, the contingent of nearly three thousand people had only a few dozen torches.
Don't look at the huge numbers, nearly 1,000 of them belong to wounded soldiers, and more than 2,000 have combat effectiveness.
The night is very deep.
The Huns were still mobilizing their troops, and the torches in the distance continued to gather in the mountains.
A drizzle of rain fell in the sky like snowflakes.
It was pitch black, surrounded by a faint mist formed by the trees.
The sound of the wind blowing the trees in the mountains is as unsettling as a hundred ghosts walking at night.
The howls of steppe wolves, which come into the ears from time to time, are creepy.
It has been eight days since the Han army officially stepped out of Shanggu County, which means that it has been attacking for eight days.
The harsh climate and unfamiliar combat environment made this group of Han sons and daughters feel deeply tired.
In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, the lone army went deep into the battle, which made them feel greatly pressured.
Every day, it is clear water and dry baba, nest heads, overdrawing their physical strength.
Now trapped in the Nameless Mountains, surrounded by Huns, their hearts are trembling again.
Ruoyao always stood on the commanding heights and observed the movement in the mountain range, for fear of a large-scale group of torches.
And Wang Qilin led hundreds of people to collect a bunch of thousands of sets of war horse armor left behind when the Weiqing Legion left.
Although they didn't speak, everyone understood that when the war horse took off its iron armor, it meant that it became a light horse.
Wei Qing: They must have rushed farther away.
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Late at night, the weather was getting colder and colder, and many soldiers were shivering from the cold.
A group of wounded soldiers gathered around a small fire to keep warm.
"Don't burn the fire too much." Ruoyao wanted to stop the soldiers from burning the fire, for fear of attracting the Huns' bows and arrows, but she couldn't bear it, and she was shivering from the cold, not to mention this group of wounded soldiers, so she could only tell to reduce the fire to a lesser extent.
Seeing that the leader was coming, the wounded soldier Wang Ergou stomped his feet and rubbed his hands and asked, "Aunt, aunt, is the royal court of Zuogu Liwang far away?" General, will they be able to rush back tomorrow? ”
Wang Ergou was wounded on the third day of the fortress, the wound was very serious, the Huns' arrows penetrated through the inner thigh, and now he could only walk on a crutchee spear, which was assisted by three other wounded soldiers for several days.
Seeing that Wang Ergou was so cold that he stomped his feet, Wang Qilin was also unbearable, he didn't want to lie to everyone, but he had to hide the matter: "Don't worry, General Wei's newly accepted big beauty deputy general is here, are you still afraid that he won't come back?" ”
Ruoyao glanced at Wang Qilin, and the three big and five coarse actually engaged in white lies: "We must hold out until tomorrow afternoon and attract Yi Zhixie's elite forces over." With that, he put his hands on the fire to keep warm.
"That's right, attract it, General Wei and they can fight the royal court, Yi Zhi is miserable." Wang Ergou was very excited.
The smile on Ruoyao's face disappeared when she saw it, Wei Qing will definitely not be able to come back tomorrow, tonight is the last night for this group of soldiers, as for tomorrow, she didn't dare to think: "Yes, when General Wei comes back tomorrow, our squad will return to the dynasty and go home to reunite." ”
Ruoyao's words did not arouse everyone's excitement, but instead became silent .......
Seeing this, Wang Qilin smiled bitterly and said, "Ruoyao, I won't hide it from you, they are all from the Qimen Army." ”
"Period Gate" means the palace gate, that is, waiting outside the palace gate at any time, waiting for the emperor's dispatch.
Emperor Wu Liu Che likes to visit micro-servers, and he calls himself "Marquis of Pingyang" when he visits micro-services.
The predecessor of the period gate was the dead soldiers recruited by Princess Pingyang to protect Liu Che, who was still the prince, and Wei Qing brought these people into the palace after entering the palace, and then, Wei Qing officially formed the period gate army.
The soldiers of the period gate army have three characteristics, one is not afraid of death, the second is loyal, and the last is orphans.
No wonder Wang Ergou and the others were silent when they heard the word "reunion", it turned out that they were all a group of orphans.
"It's not necessary to reunite, if you can kill a few more Huns, what's the matter if you die." Wang Ergou's eyes were full of hatred, and he stared at the flames intently: "My father and mother died under the sword of the Huns." ”
"My father too, my mother was taken captive, and now I don't know where I am." The other wounded soldier also looked at the flames.
Ruoyao suddenly felt that the whole atmosphere was very depressing, and she couldn't say what she felt, and she was a little out of breath.
But Ruoyao knew that this kind of suppression had the risk of lowering morale, and she couldn't let it spread .......
"Let's get down to business, you, do you have a girl?" Ruoyao suddenly looked at Wang Ergou.
Wang Ergou and the other wounded soldiers were confused by the sudden change in topic, and after a moment, Wang Ergou still had a smile on his face after all, and he was a little shy: "Hehe, yes, no, not as beautiful as a girl." ”
After hearing this, Wang Qilin slapped Wang Ergou on the shoulder: "Yo, you kid, we have been born and died for more than two years, and we are hiding very deeply, who is the girl?" Whose girl is so unlucky. ”
The smile on Wang Ergou's face was filled with happiness: "That, that." ”
"Say it." Wang Qilin and the soldiers were a little impatient.
Wang Ergou said with a smile: "Weiyang Palace, Chunfu Garden~~~~~~~~~Lin Haitang." ”
"Wow...... Wang Ergou is out of shit luck." Suddenly, everyone became excited, and they all seemed to know Lin Haitang.
Ruoyao saw that Wang Qilin was excited, patted her shoulder and asked, "Who is Lin Haitang?" ”
Wang Qilin was still excited: "It's Empress Wei's maid officer, you say, did this kid step on shit." ”
One is an orphan soldier, the other is a lady-in-waiting officer of the queen, and Wang Ergou is a phoenix man.
After all, it was a young man, and the fire in his heart was provoked in front of a beautiful woman.
"You, you kid, don't think I don't know, ...... with that Yang shopkeeper's daughter on Chang'an Street."
"No, it's not like that, if I want to find someone like Ruo Girl."
"If the girl is now General Wei's, you kid is foolish."
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The soldiers were very excited when they talked about the girl, this was the best memory of their youth, there was no one.
The wind blew Ruoyao's cloak loudly, and the drizzle fell on her hair, shining through the flames.
"If the girl, it seems that Yi Zhixian will rush the mountain early tomorrow morning." Wang Qilin was suddenly a little pessimistic.
Ruoyao fixed his mind and said: "No, tomorrow I will go to meet Yi Zhixian first, and I can fight for half a day." ”
"You're going?" Wang Qilin puffed up his chest in shock: "How can I let you go, no matter what, I have to go." ”
Ruoyao smiled coldly: "This girl doesn't need a soldier to have a way, do you have it?" ”
"You ......" Wang Qilin suddenly remembered that this woman knew a lot of things.
Watching the soldiers sing Chinese songs and jokingly, Wang Qilin asked, "Don't you think they are pitiful?" Laugh tonight, maybe tomorrow it's a cold corpse. After saying that, his eyes were very worried.
"You are a big man, and you are still a general, how can you feel like this?" Ruoyao was puzzled.
Wang Qilin smiled when he heard this: "You are a woman, why don't you feel like this?" ”
The same question, the two looked at each other embarrassedly and smiled.......