Chapter 3: The Mountain of Corpses and the Sea of Blood

In the Snow Wolf Valley, the sound of killing was soaring, and beacons were everywhere. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe sound of swords and guns clashing and the roar of people lasted for several hours, and there were not many tens of thousands of Xianbei people left. The wails of war horses and the groans of dying men filled the valley.

Dugu Nanxin was wounded in many places, kneeling on one knee, holding a saber in his right hand to support his fragile body, his gray hair messing up in the cold wind. He brushed his hair and gasped heavily.

"Phew!" A mouthful of blood spat on the ground, Dugu Nanxin sneered and said to Shi Zhan not far away: "I didn't expect that I, Dugu Nanxin, have been on the battlefield for decades, and in the end I was defeated in the hands of your kid, it was my carelessness." Shi Zhan, if you want to kill me, come on, I, Dugu Nanxin, am a Xianbei hero, don't think I will surrender to you. ”

Shi Zhan calmed the restless war horse, then took off his helmet and threw it on the ground, dismounting. The attendant next to him took the reins of the horse and led the horse silently to the side.

Shi Zhan took a knife and walked a few steps in front of Dugu Nanxin, and then said coldly: "Surrender? The food of our Han people is not used to feed you jackals, I want the lives of your Xianbei people, what do you want to surrender? Since you are bent on death, come, you will not die in vain at my hands! ”

As he spoke, Shi Zhan raised his knife to Dugu Nanxin, but he did not attack, it seemed that he intended to give Dugu Nanxin a chance to strike first.

Dugu Nanxin stood up with difficulty, he looked down and looked around, the corpses of the Xianbei people were piled up all over the Snow Wolf Valley. Looking up at Shi Zhan, his eyes were full of murder and anger.

"Ha !!" Dugu Nanxin roared, held the saber in his hand, and rushed towards Shi Zhan with all his might.

Although Dugu Nanxin was already at the end of the crossbow, he still slashed towards Shi Zhan's face door with a sharp knife. I saw Shi Zhan holding the knife in his right hand with his backhand, the edge of the knife was facing outward, and a sideways body flashed from the right side of Dugu Nanxin, easily dodging the attack, and then stood firmly, with a cold face.

Dugu Nanxin and Shi Zhan passed by, and both of them stood motionless. Dugu Nanxin was still holding the knife, while Shi Zhan's knife was still holding his backhand.

After a while, Shi Zhan slowly turned around, looked back at Dugu Nanxin, and said with a little surprise: "It's really a tough guy, he was seriously injured and stabbed by me, but he still stood and didn't fall, Dugu Nanxin, I Shi someone underestimated you." ”

Dugu Nanxin's legs trembled, obviously he couldn't stand, the blood in his chest flowed straight out, and his breathing became heavier. Dugu Nanxin thrust the knife into the ground, clenched the handle of the knife with both hands as a support, so as not to fall, and said weakly: "Shi Zhan, today I died in your hands, from now on my Xianbei and the Xian clan and your blood feud has been concluded, my fate today is the fate of you and his day, even if you don't die in the hands of our Xianbei people, Shi Hu and his sons will not tolerate you, a Han man!" ”

Shi Zhan's face sank, and he said: "I have been on the battlefield since I was a child, and I have long put life and death aside, so why am I afraid of your Xianbei people's sword?" ”

"Win or lose, let's do it, give Lao Tzu a good time!" Dugu Nanxin turned around with difficulty, stood to the east, closed his eyes, and stopped talking.

Seeing this, Shi Zhan held the knife in both hands and slashed it down.

A generation of Xianbei bravely put Dugu Nanxin in the hands of Shi Zhan.

Shi Zhan's entourage picked up Dugu Nanxin's head and put it in a cloth bag, which would be presented to Emperor Shi Hu of Later Zhao as a victory in the battle.

"Where's the lieutenant?" Shi Zhan shouted.

"The last general!"

Due to the scuffle just now, and it was night, the formation of Shi Zhan and his soldiers had also been scattered, and the adjutant general heard Shi Zhan's shout, and hurriedly ran out of the crowd, saluted and asked, "What are the general's orders?" ”

"Pass the order, rest in place, count the materials and horses left by the Xianbei people, report the number and names of the dead as soon as possible, how many wounded, what is the situation, do you remember?"

"The last general commands!"

Shi Zhan looked up at the sky, estimating that it had passed, this battle had lasted from yesterday morning to the present, and the two sides had fought bloodily for eight or nine hours, although Shi Zhan and his soldiers won the final victory, but they were already sleepy and tired, if it were not for the desire to fight, I am afraid that they would have run out of strength.

Many soldiers received orders to rest on the spot, and they didn't even set up tents, and they didn't care about the corpses of Xianbei people all over the mountains, so they pulled a piece of felt on the spot and covered it, and everyone fell asleep together.

Snow Wolf Valley is finally quiet.

The silence was somewhat scary. Shi Zhan sat on a high ground, and the entire valley was seen by the hazy moonlight, and the black pressure was full of corpses, and the blood flowing on the ground had dried up. Occasionally, a few Xianbei people who were injured but not dead struggled to crawl out of the pile of dead people, and were found by the soldiers of the Zhao Army on duty at night, and all they got was a knife, and then died completely.

"Big brother, why don't you go to sleep yet? We have already won this battle, there is no need to worry. Li Chang walked over, saw Shi Zhan sitting by the bonfire, stared directly at the striker, motionless, and asked in a low voice, "Big brother, what are you thinking?" ”

"I'm wondering what Dugu Nanxin said just now, whether I really became a lackey of the Qiang people."

"Dugu Nanxin is just looking for some psychological comfort for himself before he dies, his words don't need to be taken to heart, the brothers only obey the orders of the eldest brother, and none of us will listen to the others." Li Chang comforted and patted Shi Zhan's shoulder, and then said, "Don't think too much, big brother, you should rest early, your body is important." ”

"The night watch has been arranged, right? Snow Wolf Valley is uninhabited for hundreds of miles, but there are still tigers, wolves and beasts occasionally, so don't be careless. ”

"Big brother, don't worry, tonight's night duty is the scout sent out early yesterday morning, a total of 100 people, they only returned to the team after dark to participate in the battle, and the physical consumption is not much, so they are in charge of the night watch."

"These brothers have followed me to fight in the north and south for so many years, they are all good, tomorrow when the army is marching out, you send people to properly dispose of the bones of the brothers who died in the war, and the corpses of the Xianbei people will be burned on the spot."

"I understand, big brother rest assured.

"Okay, you go to sleep, I'll sleep too." Shi Zhan waved his hand at Li Chang, signaling that he could retreat.

"Yes." Li Chang saluted slightly, looked at Shi Zhan, didn't say a word after all, and then walked away.

The northwest wind was blowing, and the campfires were burning brightly. Although his body was very tired, Shi Zhan never fell asleep, his heart always recalled Dugu Nanxin's words, as a Han person, but he led the children of the Han family to fight the Xianbei people for the sake of the Xianbei people, did he really become a sinner in the Central Plains?

But he thought that he had grown up beside Shi Hu since he was a child, and Shi Hu treated him as his own, cared for him, passed on his martial arts, taught him the art of war, and nurtured him, so he never violated Shi Hu's intentions. He never thought about whether he was helping to abuse him by doing this, and now Dugu Nanxin's few words were like an empowerment for Shi Zhan.

Since the rebellion of the eight kings of the Jin Dynasty fifty or sixty years ago, the Huns, the Qian, Xianbei and other Hu people took the opportunity to invade the Central Plains, and there were not a few Han people in the north who died under the knife of the Hu people.

Shi Zhan thought about this question repeatedly, and he didn't know how long it was, maybe he was too tired, Shi Zhan fell asleep in a daze, until Li Chang woke him up the next day.