Chapter 17: The Fierce General
When Leon woke up, he was already three strokes in the sun, covering his head with some pain, and suddenly something fell from his arms, cold and hard. He frowned, picked up the hideous ghost face, put on his clothes, walked out of the room, and walked to the courtyard where he had been drinking and enjoying the snow last night, but he only saw the lonely plum tree.
"Your Highness has taken the army to Tiele early in the morning." Gu Lun's voice sounded in the distance, and he stared at the mask in Leon's hand, a little distracted.
"Something's wrong?" Leon turned, his hand gripping the mask tight.
"No, the little princess of Tiele Xue has always admired His Royal Highness." Gu Lun shook his head, helpless on his old face.
"That's a good thing!" Leon's clenched hand let go, but he couldn't understand why Gulen didn't look happy.
"A good thing?" Gulen laughed, his laughter bitter, "Maybe if one is not good, there will be a war." After speaking, he walked to Li Ang's side and stared at the mask in his hand, "The people of the Beiting Metropolitan Protector Mansion have arrived outside the city, you can't wait for His Highness to come back, take care of this thing, don't drop it." ”
Listening to the old man's incomprehensible words, Li Ang stuffed the mask in his hand into his hand, "Tell Your Highness for me that if I were a friend, I hope that one day, he would take off the mask in front of me, instead of leaving quietly." With that, he turned and strode away.
The cold wind blew, Gu Lun raised his eyes to look at the figure in the distance, lowered his head, and smiled at the mask in his hand, "This look, I am a little worthy of Miss Qi." With a low smile, he whispered to himself, his eyes full of relief.
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In the afternoon, the lazy sunlight shines through the carved panes, illuminating the warmth of the room.
Holding the carving knife, Li Ang concentrated on carving the statue in his hand one by one, this is the object he had promised to give to King Qiling, and now that he is about to leave, he will finish carving it.
Before I knew it, the sun had set, and the house had darkened. With a long sigh of relief, Li Ang put down the carving knife in his hand a little tiredly, looked at the statue that was not delicate at his fingertips, and frowned, he didn't know how he could carve a woman out, 'I obviously wanted to carve him...', and finally he shook his head, stood up gently, put the statue on the table, and pushed the door open.
"I've kept you waiting." Looking at the two tiger and leopard riders standing like javelins, Leon clenched his right hand into his chest with a fist. "Captain Li, please." The two tiger and leopard riders also punched their chests and returned the military salute, and with that, the two stood beside him.
"Ancient, please say goodbye to Your Highness for me." Leon looked at Gu Lun, who had been waiting for him for a long time.
"Remember not to die, you are dead, Your Highness..."Gu Lun's expression was solemn, "The Great Martial Order is the most terrifying legend on the grassland, he said that the people he wanted to kill, none of them could survive. ”
"I'm not going to die." Li Ang looked at the worried old man and smiled, "I'm just afraid that those who come to kill me won't be able to come and go when the time comes." With that, he took one last look at the room behind him and strode away.
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The snow was heavy again, and sitting in the carriage covered with thick felt cloth, Leon closed his eyes, looking indescribably indifferent. Gao Aocao, who was opposite him, couldn't help but look at him differently, "You are not afraid of death, but the Turks paid 3,000 gold to buy your head, and even their martial gods sent their own soldiers out." ”
"At most, one death. What's more, it wasn't necessarily me who died. Li Ang opened his eyes, looked at Gao Aocao, who was burly and had blazing tiger eyes, and smiled, the big man in front of him had the brave name of 'Xiang Yu's reincarnation', plus the black prince Yu Li Yan who had not yet met, and the five tiger gods of the Beiting Protectorate came to two, and it was difficult for him to die.
"What are you laughing at?" Seeing Li Ang smiling at himself, Gao Aocao couldn't help asking.
"I laugh at the Turkic Chuluo Khan and the Great Wu Ling, this time I am doing a loss-making business." Li Ang said to himself lightly, "I'm just a small soldier, and it's not worth investing so much." ”
"Hey, hey! Worth? Gao Aocao suddenly smiled at Li Ang, "How can it not be worth it if you captured the two princes of the Turks, killed the cronies and generals around the Turkic Great Martial Order, and also broke more than 300 elite Turkic soldiers!" In my opinion, the top only named you a captain, and I really wronged you! ”
"That's right, I was just a prisoner, if it wasn't for General Hou's promotion, what would I still be feeding the horses in Jade Dragon Castle?" Li Ang glanced at Gao Aocao and said lightly, the captain has one hundred and twenty people under his jurisdiction, which is already a big officer.
"You can see it, so much credit!" Gao Aocao shook his head, but he also had a good impression of Li Ang, who was not shocked, and after a while he suddenly asked, "But I still don't understand, how did you kill that person..."
Seeing that Gao Ao Cao wanted to speak and stopped, as if he didn't believe that he could kill the Turkic master, Li Ang couldn't help but smile and asked rhetorically, "Do you think that within five steps, who can escape the benefits of my Great Qin's steel crossbow and arrows?" ”
"I see." Gao Aocao thought for a while and said to himself, "I think that person must have fallen for your trick, otherwise he would have taken five steps closer and let you be used as a target." Speaking of this, he laughed, "That guy is really stupid, if this time it is also an ordinary goods, it can save a lot of trouble?" ”
"If you change ordinary people like this, you won't be as sincere as Brother Li, most of you want to brag and say some big things." Gao Aocao suddenly pressed Li Ang, "Brother, you are a character!" With that, he got up suddenly, and his huge figure suddenly broke through the carriage.
'Hulala' In an instant, the carriage had fallen apart, Gao Aocao stood on the carriage, looked around at the white snow, and laughed, "I said I came, why hide, how boring." As he spoke, a hundred tigers and leopards accompanying him arranged in a formation to protect the carriage.
In the goose-featherlike snowflakes, Li Ang was still sitting quietly, smiling, and suddenly he untied the wine jug on his waist, slowly stood up, took a sip leisurely, and said indifferently towards the front, "Li has been waiting for a long time, and now the head is here, but it doesn't hurt for everyone." ”
Gao Aocao's eyes jumped, he couldn't imagine that Li Ang, who was only seventeen years old, was so arrogant, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Brother Gao, it's snowing and cold, I'll give you a drink." Li Ang shouted to Gao Aocao, raised the wine jug in his hand, raised his head and drank it, and handed it out.
"What a guts." Gao Aocao was stunned for a moment, but then he took the wine jug and drank it all, then jumped off the car, took the long lance offered by his own soldiers, and laughed at Li Ang, "Brother, let's see me kill those rats, and then I will drink with you again." After speaking, he strode to the front of the formation.
The wind blew, Gao Ao Cao Hengshuo shouted angrily, his voice was like thunder, "Get out and die, rats!" ”
In the sound of 'whoosh', in the snow, countless Turkic warriors in white clothes broke through the snow, holding long knives, bows and crossbows, all silent as stones, in the center of them, surrounded by a tall and strong man, the big man was burly, like an iron tower, I saw him glaring at Gao Aocao, and coldly waved his hand, "Kill." ”
In an instant, those Turkic warriors pulled their bows and crossbows, and the black-pressed arrows pressed towards the hundred tigers and leopards in the array.
"Humph!" Looking at the arrows like locusts, Gao Aocao snorted coldly, and the long lance in his hand danced wildly, like a big shield, only to hear the sound of 'ding ding ding', endlessly, and the tiger and leopard rider beside him also relied on the heavy armor on his body, swinging his knife to open the arrows. In a few moments, the rain of arrows had ended, and the Turkic warriors had already rushed to them.
"Glaive." Gao Aocao shouted, and immediately the tiger and leopard around him scattered, the front was arc-shaped, shaped like a crescent moon, and he himself stood at the bottom of the crescent moon.
"Former Army!" When the Turkic tower man saw the formation of the tiger and leopard riders, he immediately shouted, and the Turkic warriors who had been rushing forward suddenly gathered and slashed straight towards the middle of the weak crescent, while the companions behind them resisted the two curved moon wheels of the glaive formations on both sides.
The glaive array is heavy on two wings, and light in the middle of the abdomen, and the non-brave and extremely sharp generals are in the middle of the moon, and they will die if they use it. But Gao Ao stood in the middle of the moon with a big thorn, not paying attention to the crowd rushing in front of him.
"Death." Gao Aocao swung his lance, and at this time the Turkic warriors had already rushed ten steps in front of him, but under the blow of his horizontal lance, three of them were broken their sternums and flew upside down to die, while the rest were forced back by force. For a time, under Gao Aocao's long lance, no one was invincible, forcing those Turkic warriors to retreat step by step, and the tiger and leopard riders on both wings were inspired by him, and the entire glaive array was actually pressed forward.
Picking up a large bow, Li Ang stood on the cart, looking down on the entire battlefield like an eagle, and constantly shot powerful iron arrows to kill the Turks who approached Gao Aocao.
"Good archery!" Seeing the Turks three feet in front of him fall, Gao Aocao shouted, this is already the thirteenth, under Li Ang's divine archery, he has not worn heavy armor until now, and he has not even seen a single wound on his body. couldn't help but let him shout 'refreshing', under the stabbing of the long lance, there was no kind of protection, and it was a killing move that did not leave a backhand.
"It seems that the '10,000 enemies' mentioned in the history books are true!" Li Ang looked at Gao Aocao, who was as brave as a bear, and couldn't help muttering to himself, he had been at the border for two years, and he often heard the veterans around him talk about the terrifying achievements of those generals in the past, and always thought it was an exaggeration, but Gao Aocao in front of him made him believe it. And there is no suspense in this battle!
The red blood stained the white snow, the quiver at Li Ang's feet was empty, and beside him were tigers and leopards less than seventy and Gao Ao Cao standing sideways, all covered in blood, with broken swords and helmets. And they were surrounded by the corpses of Turks nearly ten times their size.
"You're a good man, too! But the name of the vanquished, I'm not interested in knowing! Gao Aocao looked at the big man in front of him who seemed to want to say something, and the long lance in his hand pierced his throat.
"Great Qin!" Gao Aocao gently pulled out the lance and shouted. "Wu Wei!" The rest of the tigers and leopards fell to his knees on one knee with him, shouting in response.
Li Ang also knelt in the snow and recited a prayer for those who died in battle with Gao Aocao, "You are noble warriors, and your souls will ascend into the heavens, and be with the ancestors and ancestors, and with the mighty spirits of Emperor Taizu... You will live forever. In the low voice of prayer, Leon was always religious, he was not a person who would believe in anything, but he knew how to respect faith.
In the end, Li Ang stood up with Gao Aocao and the remaining tigers and leopards, facing the east, and slammed his fist on his chest like thunder, "In the name of the ancestors and ancestors, in the name of the Taizu Weiling, and in the name of your heroic souls, I will be invincible!" After Shen Xiong's roar, Li Ang and Gao Aocao stood side by side, watching as the falling snow gradually covered the corpses of the Turks.
After a long time, Gao Aocao spoke, "I'd rather die than retreat, these Turks are some admirable enemies." ”
"But he's a cruel enemy." Leon muttered to himself, remembering some history that may never be there again, "If they don't die, our people will suffer." Speaking of this, he looked into the distance, his eyes sharp, "The peaceful and prosperous world was killed, and it was bought by the enemy's corpses and blood." ”
"Well spoken!" Listening to these cool words, Gao Aocao raised his eyebrows and laughed, "I'm a bit of a girl just now!" At this moment the earth shook, and not far ahead, a cavalry galloped in, but in a moment they were near, and they jumped off their horses, all with blood on their bodies, and they had all been torn apart.
"How are you there, I'm so boring here." Greeting the armored man who came over, Gao Aocao walked up with a big smile.
"Yu Liyan." Seeing that Li Ang beside Gao Aocao looked at himself, the armored man with the black lance reported his name.
In a deep voice, Li Ang saw clearly the person who spoke, that person was a head shorter than Gao Aocao, his face was thin, and he did not look majestic, but the black lance he was holding in his hand was extremely long, and the whole person looked like an inconspicuous stone.