Chapter 608: Mountains
", talk about people!"
Hongjin took a sip and suddenly raised his foot and kicked behind him.
"......." Manila pulled at the wound, took a breath of cold air in pain, looked at it in horror, and realized that the four women were not so gentle, so he replied in a low voice: "...... More than 200 years ago, your envoys came here to spread the culture for a while, and I learned some of it from the scrolls of knowledge recorded in the teachings....."
"It's very smart, it's self-taught." Ren Hongchang nodded at him and threw the last dead branch into the fire, "Since you can speak Chinese, it's best, let me ask you, where the army of the Han Dynasty went, take me there immediately after dawn." ”
As soon as the word army was mentioned, Mani's already pale face suddenly became ugly, turned around and hurriedly crawled on the ground, wanting to leave, but was trampled on the back by a waitress who came over, and with a bang, the blade was on his neck: "Lead the way after dawn, otherwise you will cut off your head directly." ”
"I ..... to escape." Mani looked at the blade in front of him, his lips trembling slightly.
Soon after, the clouds on the horizon of the morning sun were white, the fire on the ground was extinguished, and green smoke rose, Mani was bound with his hands tied, and was watched back the way he came, the temperature in the air did not appear warm because of the rising sun, and there were faint slags of ice on the side in the puddles of water that he walked through, and the Gobi and the occasional oasis were almost impossible to see at the end of the sight.
"You're going in the wrong direction." Hongjin pressed the tip of his knife against the back of the resting man, and his bright eyes glared at him with a little ferocity: "...... said, how far is it?!" ”
Mani staggered a little, looked around, the wind occasionally smelled scorching, and the four people and two wolves behind also smelled this familiar stench, Mani raised his bound hands, stretched out a finger and pointed to the hill in front of him, "Turn over..... you can see the city of Nisa, which is the brightest pearl of Parthia." ”
They were not slow, and after half an hour they climbed up the mound, and the smell of burnt and blood became stronger, and when they reached the highest point of sight, as far as the eye could see, there were blackened walls, but beyond here, the city was scorched black, and in some places burning flames could be seen, and the black smoke was very low by the wind, and blew in the direction of the north.
"It's weird that the walls are black." Someone reminded me.
Walked a little further, carefully looked at the wall section, the red brocade suddenly covered his mouth, opened his eyes wide, the wall was tied to the rope, on which were a string of human heads, densely spread all over the city wall and extended to a place that was difficult to see, but more people were still hanging on the corpse of the person by the strips, and the scavenging birds heard the footsteps, wah, wow, wow, wow, and the black pressure flew into the sky.
"That's what you call the brightest city?" Ren Hongchang narrowed his eyes and raised his chin.
Mani clenched his fists, looked at the lifeless Nisa, and said in a hoarse voice: "...... was." ”
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The sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded under the hill, and several horseback figures galloped over with bows and arrows, and when they were far away, they had already noticed this line, and Ren Hongchang glanced at them: "It's the Xianbei cavalry, let's go over." ”
"Imperial Chief, the Xianbei people are brutally tight, will they take a fancy to us..... Hongjin followed behind, vigilantly looking at the five steppe cavalrymen wearing leather jackets and leather armor over there, "...... really like it, what should I do then?" I'm not married yet......"
"Don't talk nonsense."
……
Below the hills.
The war horse wandered, and a Xianbei man looked at the four women who walked down, turned his head and smiled fiercely at his companions around him, and said in Xianbei language: "I didn't expect to meet a Han woman here, it is really a gift from the white wolf god, it is better to rob them all, anyway, the army of the wolf king has gone to the south." ”
"Grab the wild...... What did the Overseer teach us? The companion shook his head and steadied the warhorse that swayed from time to time, "A few Han Dynasty women suddenly appeared here, don't you want to think about the weirdness in your head?" ”
The other three burst out laughing, and then the laughter stopped abruptly, and someone pointed to the group of people who were getting closer and closer: "There seems to be a wolf behind them...... White ......"
The Xianbei man who spoke first before squinted his eyes and looked over carefully, with a surprise on his face: "It's very familiar..... where have you seen it, let's go, go over and take a look." ”
The distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, and when the five Xianbei scouts and horses set up a formation, the oncoming woman did not wait for them to speak, and directly took out a copper brand from her arms, threw it over after a dozen steps, and landed not far in front of the war horse in the middle.
He hurriedly put the weapon back into the scabbard, his posture looked much respectful, and the remaining Xianbei scouts then dismounted and came over to salute, Ren Hongchang did not go over, but just stood far away and asked them: "I am the woman of your wolf king, where is his camp now?" You've killed all the people in this city? ”
"The Wolf King's Woman?" The five Xianbei scouts are all Chinese, and they were stunned when they heard this, but they can take out this token, and their identities will not be ordinary, the last time someone took out this brand, the former lock slave Shan Yu lost his head, and I heard that it was the wolf king lady in Shanggu County who sent it to the hands of the Xianbei lords of the various departments to display.
After hesitating for a moment, one of them still said, "Two days ago, the wolf king had already gone south with his army. ”
"...... such cold weather, and still have to fight?" Ren Hongchang's calm gaze finally showed consternation, the common sense that even a woman who doesn't understand military affairs knows even if she doesn't understand military affairs, then Gongsun Zhi can't know, "Where are ...... going next?" ”
"Kill the capital of the people of Sabbath, I heard that it is very prosperous, and the people in this city have not been killed, they have all been taken to the front line, after all, the siege of the city is used."
The Xianbei scout replied with some pride. A mythical winter lightning ...... This is what Shan Gui Ni personally told them.......
The cold wind blew five hundred miles to the south, known as the prosperous capital of Parthia - Hekadonbiru City, the temperature is also cold and abnormal, as an invaded country, it is already accustomed to it, hundreds of years of the founding of the country, civil strife, the invasion of the Romans has been incalculable, when the news from the north came, most of the people in the city shrunk at home and lived the same life as usual, after all, the climate in Central Asia is extremely cold, those invaders can not brave the wind and snow that can cover people's eyes to kill over, right?
At the court, the new emperor of Parthia was discussing the final details of the army with his ministers and nobles, and the suppression of the rebellion became the first priority.
"The Cyrius will surely stop in the cold winter, the conquest has come to an end, and even if they take this city, the Parthians will not accept their rule." Vologis confidently made his decision, but he didn't say his last word.
"...... but my brother Aldaban is the rightful heir to be the emperor."
The discussion finally reached a decision, but before it could be implemented, a few days later, the whole city of Hekadonbiru received an even greater message, and the Hundred Prison Gates had sent reinforcements as early as the attack on Nisa, and they were torn in half by the two terrible cavalry of Celeus.
Then the army of more than 100,000 people of the Celeus people had already begun to overwhelm them.
Before he recovered from the shock, there was also the commander of the Liberation Army far away on the border of Harax, the youngest son of the old Emperor Parthia, Ardaban, who looked at the old man beside him, and was silent and could not make a sound.
It took a long time before I could hold back a sentence.
"Can you support me as emperor......."