Chapter 44: The Coming War

The headless corpse lay quietly on the ground, the crow stood on it pecking, and occasionally a figure came up, flapping its wings and flying up, a blade dyed red.

The human head was dragged in his hands, and red blood beads dripped from the broken mountain of flesh.

In the vastness of history, no one can predict or grasp what happens around them, and Gongsun Zhi also can't know who the dead heads hanging on the branches will be, and what kind of opportunities and descendants will be in the future, but those are no longer important, they are already a dead person.

"The arrows have been recovered, and these Huns have no oil and water...... It's poor enough. Gao Sheng pulled a handful of grass and wiped the blood from his palm, and then rubbed his leather jacket and turned it onto the horse's back.

Over there, Gongsun Zhi turned the horse's head, put his finger to his lips and sighed, looked out of the valley, and then his pupils shrank, and the wolf riders around him who were carrying human heads and cleaning the battlefield were very familiar with such a sound, threw down the things in his hand, turned over the horse directly, made a sound again and again, and assembled a good formation.

Outside the valley, the sound of horses' hooves finally sounded in this direction, and the cavalry with a thousand people was visually seen, like a conflict rushing over, the general on horseback was medium and strong, with a gray collared robe, covered with two basin collar armor, two animal faces hanging on each of his shawls, and a black face and long beard, which was Xu Rong under the command of Dong Zhuo who was pursuing.

In the fast gallop, the other party naturally saw the corpses in one place, and the heads of people hanging on the branches, and the mouth "shouted", crossed the reins, stopped, and raised the bow and arrow on both sides, perhaps feeling the tense breath, the war horse shook its mane slightly, Xu Rong patted the horse's head, drove the horse a few steps, and swept his eyes over the head, and then stayed on the black war horse headed by the opposite side, and the whip pointed over.

"The heart is ruthless enough, yes, you shouldn't be soft on Hu people...... However, the costumes of the people are also bandits, do you say that they should be rewarded or suppressed? ”

He said a word, except for the occasional crow in the valley, there was no sound around, and the atmosphere tightened suddenly, Gongsun Zhi stared at the general, squinted, stretched out his arm and waved it back, and the eight hundred horsemen behind him lowered the bow and arrow in their hands, and at this time, Xu Rong on the opposite side laughed and made the same action, that is, nodding.

"You and other means, this general likes it very much, if this leader is willing, he is willing to recommend you to the current Taishi and be a captain, it is better than you roaring in the mountains and fields, and you will not be able to shine on the lintel until you die, how about it?"

……

The wind blew in the valley, stroking the treetops, and the words that came from the opposite side were a little threatening, and some of the wolf riders sneered disdainfully, and some of them had dark faces and clenched their bows. The thousand horsemen on the opposite side were not soft eggs, and in terms of the opponent's momentum, they were no different from the Rongbian soldiers they saw in the border area, and they were even faintly stronger than the other party.

The terrain here is mixed, it is not a good place for the cavalry to carry out an offensive, and the valley behind it is not blocked, if the battle starts, the problem of retreat is not very big, but it will be followed and pursued by the other party, and the terrain is full of mountains and forests, and it is obviously difficult to get rid of them like the grassland.

When the other party's eyes came over, Gongsun Zhi raised his hand slightly: "The general's grand intentions, the people of the mountains and fields have understood it, the soldiers under the command of the Taishi are so vigorous and strong, and they are not bad for my hundreds of brothers to serve, and the war horses left by these Huns will be handed over to the general, so I will say goodbye." ”

The horses slowly retreated on the ground, turning in the silence of the bow and arrows. Xu Rong looked at the group of people who exited the valley in an orderly manner, but nodded regretfully, but he didn't solicit the other party too much.

The general of an army, who would really take a group of bandits too seriously.

"General Xu... Do you want to kill them together? "The lieutenant rode over and handed over.

The tall figure on horseback waved his hand and shook his head: "It's useless, they retreat in an orderly manner, they can change formations at any time, chase and kill, they can also leave with strong men breaking their wrists, it doesn't make much sense to kill a few more or kill a few." Let's go, take those horses with us, and we'll take bribes from each other, hahaha-"

…….

On the way back, a fast horse from Luoyang finally caught up, and the knight reported: "There is new news from Cai Shizhong, saying that it is two groups of people who robbed the Wei family, and Miss Cai was robbed by the first group of people. ”

In the noon sun, Xu Rong thought of something, his black face showed a little red, and he slammed the whip into the air, and there was a loud bang-

"I'm mad at me!"

………..

At the same time, he had already returned to the vicinity of the hidden grassy slope, and Gao Sheng's voice was asking: "Chief, why don't we just agree, this time we are the imperial master, if we can enter his sight, the leader will definitely rise to the top, and we are not a few hundred people who are not all petty officials." ”

"Lu Bu is now the righteous son of that Taishi...... Are you still going? The figure dressed in a big coat glanced over, "Even if the other party accepts us, we are just a bunch of horse thieves, how can we compare with his own Xiliang lineage?" ”

Gao Sheng's face froze, he touched his bald head and laughed dryly, and then not long after he returned, the sound of the quarrel came.

“… Madame, you can't leave, the chief said that if you don't come back after dark, he will send you back. ”

“…… Brave men......"

“… Madam, I'm afraid it won't work......"

"I'm not a lady... Don't call it that. ”

In the grove on the other side of the grassy slope, several wolf riders stopped in front, blocking the girl who wanted to go, crying on one side, and not moving rough on the other side, so she had to persuade patiently.

Gongsun Zhi rode up on a horse, stood there frowning, under the cyan stubble, staring at the girl with his lips pursed, the other party also looked at it at this time, his eyes contacted, he was stunned, and stood there with some trepidation, tears flowing.

"Do you really want to go back and live with a man who has no feelings for the rest of your life?" He spoke in a low voice.

With tears in her eyes, the girl shook her head and nodded.

"Then I'll take your father with me." After Gongsun Zhi finished speaking, he turned over and got on the horse, and the girl over there stared at the man on horseback.

"What's your father's name?"

"Cai... Yong..."

"Hmm..."

Gongsun Zhi nodded, his expression was suddenly stunned, and he turned his head to look at the girl, "What's your name?" ”

Here, the timid figure originally lived in the world of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, with a demure temperament, and occasionally the curiosity of a girl, but in the end he had never been in contact with a very vicious, but very safe man like this, and now the other party's fierce eyes glared again, and said in a low voice: "Cai Yan......"

A moment later, there was a rough laugh on the horse's back, Cai Yan was just about to raise her head, her vision suddenly rose and swayed, and a big hand put her around her, put it on the horse's back, and pressed it into her arms.

"What are you doing... What are you doing... Put me down..."

However, she was answered by the shouting and coaxing of the wolf riders around her, followed by the movement of the horses' hooves, the wandering of their eyes, and the undulation of their bodies as they left the grove before.

…….

The sun was more slanting, and in the red sunset, there were human figures walking northward and southward, old men in ragged clothes sobbing and dragging bare-bottomed children, and then falling to the ground, women and young men carrying what they could use at home, or pushing carts crowded into the fleeing crowd, the voices of people, crying, shouting, the sounds of domestic animals, all kinds of voices gathered together under this sky.

To the west of Xingyang, all the way to the Bishui River, many people in large and small villages have temporarily left their homeland with their families, and such scenes often indicate that a war is coming.

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