Chapter 7: The Scarlet Battlefield
Although the state of Wu was small, it still tried its best to resist. Eagle Ridge is the main battlefield, where the 20,000 troops of the Wu State and the 50,000 troops of the Qin State face off here. This is yesterday's event, the state of Wu was naturally defeated, and the Qin army took advantage of the victory to pursue and go deep into the hinterland of the state of Wu, with the potential to destroy the state of Wu in one fell swoop.
Jing Ge and Yu Jue were still a mile away from the main battlefield, and the disgusting smell of blood was clearly audible. As she got closer, Yu Jue couldn't help but vomit out, her face was extremely pale, and she vomited until the bile came out.
Jing Ge took pity on her, patted her on the back, and said softly, "Let's go!" Yu Jue shook her head stubbornly and said, "I'm fine." ”
Jing Ge looked up, this is an open hillside, although it is called Eagle Ridge, but it is not a steep peak.
The wilderness was deserted, the loess on the hillside was brown with blood, there were stumps and broken legs everywhere, overturned flags, blood-stained battle robes, dying horses neighing, vultures and crows pecking at corpses, a sad scene, like the end of the world. No one has cleaned the battlefield yet, thinking that the Qin army wants to pursue and expand the results of the battle, and then clean up the battlefield after the division returns to the court.
Jing Ge endured the smell of blood here, the first time he saw this kind of scene, he forcibly suppressed the feeling of wanting to vomit. Take a closer look at the battlefield. Someone?
Jing Ge stared at the battlefield in the distance ahead, and there were figures moving. Jing Ge let go of Yu Jue and motioned for her to stay here and not move, he bent down, picked up a war sword in the ground, and slowly walked forward.
There were people walking around the battlefield, but there weren't many, only a few figures, so he wasn't very scared and wanted to see if it was a human or a ghost.
When he walked into the battlefield, he found a handsome man in his twenties, dressed in white, with a white scarf and his hair tied up, holding a notebook and a small piece of charcoal in his hand, recording something. He saw Jing Ge leaning over with his sword, bowed his hand, and said loudly to Jing Ge, "Northern Tour Bachelor, if you offend, I hope you will forgive me." ”
Jing Ge was stunned, and said in his heart, oops,, embarrassed. So he threw away the sword in his hand and replied with a similar salute: "Brother Tai, forgive me, I have no malice, and I also came to the battlefield to take a look." ”
The man in white nodded, and continued to write something in his notebook, sometimes frowning, sometimes suddenly, as if the disgusting scenes and breath here had no effect on him.
"The yellow sand, it blooms the blood-colored flowers, the fire is long, this way to the end of the world......"
Jing Gehu's body trembled, and in an instant, his hairs stood up, and a chill flowed from his head to the soles of his feet. Not because the battlefield is eerie, but because the song is really - too ugly.
Where the song came, another figure appeared. Lupine scarf, gray clothes fluttering, face like warm jade, looking like a fairy wind, looks good, but sings like asking for life.
He also saw Jing Ge and the man in white, "Two friends, looking down at this battlefield, they are full of sadness, and they can't help but chant a few words of requiem, I hope it doesn't disturb you." ”
Jing Ge cursed two sentences in his heart, sure enough, it was a requiem, and he almost sent my soul away.
"It doesn't matter." The expression of the man in white did not change in the slightest.
"It looks like the three of us are not the only ones on the battlefield." The man with the Dao Bone Immortal Wind said. Jing Ge followed his gaze, and in the vast twilight, there were several groups of people.
"This is the first war in the twenty-year history of the Imperial Capital Contract, and there are naturally many people who pay attention to it." The man in white replied lightly.
Jing Ge was silent, slowly walking and looking at the weapons and armor on the battlefield, he saw a corpse in yellow armor lying on the ground move. He hurriedly went over and picked him up, and shouted, "There is still a person alive here." The other two rushed to hear the noise.
"He was badly wounded." The man with the fairy wind looked at his injuries.
Jing Ge rolled his eyes, damn, who doesn't know? Talking nonsense, the battle armor of this person in front of him is broken, and there are dozens of deep and shallow wounds on his body, and he barely has one breath left, will he be seriously injured?
"What should I do?" Yu Jue also came over after hearing the shout. There were also some people who were also on the battlefield.
"He's so badly injured that he can't live, it's better to give him a good time." An indifferent man stepped forward with a sword in hand.
The rest of the people didn't speak, and Yu Jue opened his hand to block the front and said loudly: "No, I will never allow you to do this." Her face was still pale, but her expression was resolute.
"Oh, whatever you like, it's just a dying soldier who sent him on his way and dirty my sword." The indifferent man turned away, full of arrogance and coldness.
There was a sound of horses' hooves, and several people in the battlefield looked at a group of people in the distance, it was a simple carriage and a team of guards. They stopped in the setting sun, and exchanged words in their ears. A short time later, a woman stepped out of the carriage and walked towards Jing Ge and them.
"Are there wounded people here who need to be treated?" The woman walked briskly, followed by a line of guards and a handmaiden.
"Exactly." The man in white replied.
"Bring the medicine kit." The woman crouched down and commanded the man behind her.
She was dressed in a plain white dress, with a ribbon tied around her slender waist, a tulle cloak on the outside, her long hair like a waterfall draped behind her, her face was peerless, her eyes were as calm as a bottomless lake, and the whole person exuded a unique temperament, and there was something else in the noble elegance, like a fairy who had lost the world.
The blurred scene and smell of flesh in front of her didn't affect her in the slightest, and she crouched down, not caring about the blood stained on the ground by her long dress.
Her eyes are always calm and focused, and she doesn't squint. She was undressing the man, expertly tending to the wounds, applying the medicine, and when everything was done, she stood up and washed her hands in the basin of water brought by the guards behind her.
"He has no worries about his life, so I'll take him away for the time being."
"That's very good." The gray-clothed man with the Dao Bone Immortal Wind said. Apparently the woman saw that they could not take care of the man.
"Farewell." After the woman said a few words, she led the people away. She gave up the carriage to the wounded soldier, and she turned over a horse herself, and her clothes fluttered and she was gone.
Jing Ge looked at the direction she was going in the distance, and couldn't retract her gaze for a long time.
This woman is not inferior to Yu Jue in appearance, but her temperament is completely different, cold as snow, and not stained with mortal dust.
The man from the Dao Bone Immortal Wind looked at Jing Ge's appearance and smiled. "Little brother, it's getting late now, she walks to the southwest, enters the Qin Kingdom, and will definitely stop at the small inn ten miles ahead, which is the only surviving inn within a radius of dozens of miles, and there may be room to live in it now."
When Yu Jue on the side heard this, Qiong's nose wrinkled slightly, and she snorted inaudibly.
"Why don't we find a place to stay for the night?" He invited the man in white next to him.
After thinking about it, the man in white nodded in agreement, but said nothing. Of the people who were also hanging on the battlefield, only the four of them did not have horses, and the others had already ridden away one after another.
The man of the Dao bone fairy wind gently shook the feather fan in front to lead the way, the man in white never spoke, Jing Ge was also thinking about things, and Yu Jue finally came to his senses in the bloody battlefield, and he didn't say anything all the way.
They walked nearly ten miles before the night completely covered the land. As the man said, there is a small inn: Peach Blossom Spring.
There is a small river at the entrance of the inn, and a few peach trees are sparsely planted on the riverside, and some flowers bloom in this spring. The woman who had gone before did rest here, and there were a dozen or so horses tied under the peach tree, and it seemed that not only the woman was here, but there were also some other people staying here.
The four of them walked in, "Shop, are there any vacancies?" The man shaking the feather fan asked.
"Well, guest officer, there is only one empty room left in the shop." The shopkeeper replied.
The four of them glanced at each other, and the man in gray said, "In that case, this room will be given to you." ”
Yu Jue has nothing to excuse.
"I'm tired of the store preparing some food and drinks for us, there are still empty tables."
"Yes, yes, yes...... The guest officer here, please "The shopkeeper beckoned them to sit down at a table.
"Yujue, how do you feel? Still uncomfortable? Jing Ge asked with concern.
"It's much better." Yu Jue's complexion has improved a lot.
Jing Ge looked around, the lobby of the inn was very small, there were only six tables, the four tables inside were already full, the two innermost tables were sitting four people, the other was sitting three people, and the person who said before that he wanted to give the wounded soldier a good time was also there.
Although they were dressed ordinarily, there was a cold aura faintly emanating from between their eyebrows. Jing Ge secretly observed them, and the people at the other table were led by a calm and heroic son, and the other three were vigilant, they should be protecting him.
The other two tables were naturally the woman's people, and the food on their table was ready, but no one moved, obviously waiting for the woman.
Slight rhythmic footsteps sounded, and the woman was seen walking slowly downstairs in the evening. She changed into clean clothes, walked to the table and sat down casually, picked up chopsticks, and ate quietly.