Chapter 3: Mutations
"Oh no! Checkmate! Oh no! ”
Zhang Cheng, who had not yet woken up, was shaken awake by the soldiers, he was awakened by the sudden chill, rubbed his temples, and said, "What's wrong?" So flustered? ”
"General! Oh no! Look! The soldier pointed to the hole and shouted!
"This! How so? Zhang Cheng was dumbfounded!
The entrance to the cave has been blocked by thick snow, and the whole cave is illuminated by a faint flame that has not yet been extinguished!
Zhang Cheng hurriedly ran to the entrance of the cave and kicked the ice accumulated by the snow at the entrance of the cave a few times! Motionless!
"What the hell is going on?" Zhang Cheng didn't know why, he asked the guide who came running!
Seeing that the guide's face was like ashes, he sat down on the ground and muttered, "Avalanche! It's an avalanche! ”
Hearing these two words, Zhang Cheng's heart also sank. He knows better than anyone what an avalanche means! In the high mountains, there are often some earthquakes that cause snow landslides, and a large amount of snow slides down, just like landslides, burying the road!
Seeing this, Zhang Cheng couldn't sit still.
"Iron pillars! Smash me with your stick! I don't believe it can't be opened! Zhang Cheng was so anxious that he shouted at the iron pillar. Tie Zhu rubbed his hands, moved his body that was a little stiff because of the cold, picked up the wooden stick and smashed it into the ice!
But the result is still like that, not moving at all! After smashing for a while, the iron pillar's face turned red, but the ice body just ignored the iron pillar.
Zhang Cheng shouted a little frantically: "Smash it all for me!" "He ordered everyone to hit the ice desperately in an attempt to break it down! But it all seemed in vain! The ice is like a mountain, not moving at all......
Under the city of Ganyang Road, Huo Han's 30,000 troops have been fighting for a day and a night, and the city is already full of corpses, blood flows out of the corpses, and a trace of blood gathers together to form a stream.
After storming for a day and a night, Huo Han's army has killed more than 10,000 people in battle, piling up the entire city into a slope, and the exhausted soldiers of the third town have to stop for a while under Huo Han's orders!
The soldiers and horses of the Third Army Town were completely defeated, and only a few hundred people survived! Yang Qiong saw Han Jian, who was covered in blood, several knife wounds, and still bleeding from his forehead, but he didn't say a word, just stared at him with a pair of red eyes.
Huo Han also had red eyes, but he stared fiercely at the city wall of Ganyang Road, looking at the crimson city wall and the corpses of more than 10,000 soldiers, silent. In the past, on the battlefield, there were not a few people who experienced such fierce battles. And there were only two times that gave him such a big shock, one was the one when Zhenxiong Pass broke the barbarian army, and the other was the one in front of him. The pieces of corpses, the mountains of loyal souls, were placed in front of him like this, and his heart was aching!
Only now did he truly realize what it meant to be a success! He also understood why Zhang Cheng was reluctant to continue with a good future!
Seeing the corpses of his brothers, relatives, and robes in front of his eyes, the pain in his heart could not be explained to anyone, so he could only move forward with tears!
He gritted his teeth and let out a muffled sound from his throat: "Two hours later, the second army town!" Yang Qiong! Overseer! ”
Yang Qiong was stunned, but when he saw Huo Han, who was already full of tears, he chose to obey his orders! I chose to accept! They have no choice but to move forward! Like a lone wolf that has fallen behind, dragging a tired and wounded body, all they can do is lick their wounds and move forward again! To forage, to survive, to survive, to fight!
This is the battlefield! That's their fate!
On the other hand, Ganyang Dao, the 12,000 soldiers under Yin Tianba killed more than 5,000 people in battle, and there were seven or eight hundred wounded soldiers, but they also had no choice, on this battlefield, there was only life and death! Either you die or I live! Yin Tianba's face was gloomy, looking at his brothers, slowly dragging the corpses down the city one by one, he didn't say a word!
At this time, Pei Rong, who was also the embarrassed commander of the Third Army Town, was silent behind Yin Tianba for a long time, and he had to stand up and say, "Brother Yin, let the Fourth Town come up!" If this continues, not only will our men and horses be lost, but we will also not be able to keep the road of Ganyang! ”
Long Yue was also a lintel tightener, and he agreed: "Yes! If you want to cooperate with the general's plan, Ganyang Dao can't be lost! Even if you want to preserve your strength, you can't sacrifice Ganyang Dao! ”
Yin Tianba's face was gloomy, he looked at the two of them, and saw that they were also covered in blood, of course, most of them were the blood of the enemy, but the armor on his body was damaged in many places, and there were many minor injuries on his body. With 5,000 soldiers under their command, most of them are tired divisions, and with such combat strength to stick to Ganyang Road, it is impossible to resist the wolf-like Jizhou army!
With a long sigh, Yin Tianba finally said discouragedly: "Okay! Ask the Shogun for help! ”
When the two of them heard this, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
And next, the second military town of the Jizhou Army attacked Ganyang Road again two hours later! is also sacrificing life and forgetting death, and is also taking the lead, Yang Qiong led his brother and desperately rushed to the city!
Yin Tianba, who didn't have time to rest, once again threw themselves into the fierce battle......
Five days later, Zhang Cheng and the others, who had been trapped in the Gannan Cave for five days and five nights, had already consumed the last of their food, and even drank up the water!
Despair, like a plague, began to spread among a thousand people!
Zhang Cheng, who was tired and hungry, looked at the thousand brothers who were also unable to keep their spirits up, and he was silent. At this moment, a brother of the pro-guard battalion brazenly pulled out the sword on his waist and was about to commit suicide.
Zhang Cheng rushed forward, grabbed the war knife in his hand with all his might, and shouted, "What are you going to do!" ”
"General! Just let me die! After I'm dead, everyone can still eat me, and maybe I can last a while! The soldier looked at Zhang Cheng in despair and said resolutely.
When everyone heard this, they looked at the brother almost like a devil! And this sentence is more like a thunderclap, pushing the already desperate soldiers into the ice cave!
"Nope! No way! Zhang Cheng yelled. He never imagined that in his life experience, he really saw that in order to survive, people would eat each other's corpses in order to survive.
"Is there a better way for you, General?" The soldier looked at Zhang Cheng and said lightly.
Zhang Cheng was stunned, yes. Is there a better way for him? He couldn't, and neither did he!
Zhang Cheng sat down on the ground and said in a choked voice: "It's all my fault!" It's me who is too eager for quick success! Led everyone to a dead end! I'm sorry everyone! Zhang Cheng finally knelt on his knees and kowtowed to all the soldiers.
Everyone was silent, and Guo Cheng, the captain of the guard battalion, sat on the ground, and he said weakly: "Our guard battalion as the commander of the guard, the soldiers!" Ever since the day we chose to follow the Governor, we haven't thought about living! Death is our destination! Soldiers, dying on the battlefield is our glory! The glory of the soldier is to return the body of the horse leather! ”
Qi Tian also shouted: "General, Qi Tian's life was saved by you." Whenever, wherever! Where there is a general, there must be me Qitian! Monkey King swears to live and die with the general! ”
Liu Tiezhu also hugged Zhang Cheng's shoulder, and he said in a rough voice: "Tiezhu has had no father or mother since he was a child, and it was my brother who adopted me!" Although I don't usually like to talk, and I am not good at expressing my emotions. But I know that in this world, the only one who is really good to me is my brother! In this life, Tiezhu is willing to live and die with his brother! ”
The ten brothers of Zhangjiacun sitting next to Zhang Cheng also looked at death as if they were at home, and they swore from their throats: "Swear to die and live and die with the general!" ”
When all the soldiers heard their words, they all nodded secretly, no one was saying anything, just silently waiting for the coming of death, waiting for death!
For a long, long time, I don't know who it was, humming in my mouth:"
The wilderness of my hometown,
steppe horses,
Green grass,
The herdsmen on the steppe are galloping;
That's my hometown,
That's my beautiful mom and dad!
My dear brother,
Let's go together;
My dear comrades-in-arms,
Let's fight together;
Far away you,
When will I be able to return home?
Far away me,
When will I be able to return home?
The war horse neighed under the crotch,
The sword is cut in the hand;
The boy of Jizhou,
The Horse Leather Shroud will be able to go home......"
The second is humming, the third, the fourth, the fifth...... More and more Jizhou brothers sang this folk song that carries the worry about their hometown and the dream of Jizhou boys who are determined to make contributions and return to their hometowns.
This folk song that circulated in the north of Jizhou echoed in the cave, and the song floated in the cave, and the last trace of despair became a thousand tragic hearts.
I don't know if it's because of their determination, or because their emotions have infected God. The snow at the entrance of the cave shook up, and with a "bang", the snow that sealed the entrance of the cave slid downward, and a large piece of snow rolled down the mountain.
The dazzling light shot into the dark cave, making it impossible for everyone to open their eyes for a while!
Everyone looked at the white light at the entrance of the cave in a daze, and woke up for a long time!
"The cave is opened! We are saved! ”
"We're saved!"
Everyone was overjoyed!
After the great joy, Zhang Cheng grabbed the war knife, stood up with a pestle, and said, "Brothers." We don't have to die! Since God doesn't want us! Then let's live our lives! Pick up the swords in your hands, rush out with me, rush down the mountain, and go to make a contribution! Fight for that glory for your relatives far away! Come on! ”
Under the rendering of the emotions just now, and under the stimulation of the new students, everyone couldn't help but be full of enthusiasm. followed Zhang Cheng and rushed out.
Everyone went all the way down to Ganyang Road.
At this moment, it was already the seventh night of the battle, and the second military town of the Jizhou Army held out for another seven days and seven nights under the condition that Huo Han deliberately slowed down the intensity of the attack, and the 10,000 army was now less than 500 men and horses.
But even so, the soldiers of the Second Army Town who avenged the brothers also killed Fang Cun, they waved the butcher knives in their hands, which in five days and five nights, the brothers of the Second Army Town can be said to have sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, and cut off the heads of one Gyeongju army after another!
When night fell, in the barracks of the First Military Town of the Jizhou Army, Yang Qiong and Han Jian had ugly faces, and stood silently beside Huo Han with gloomy faces, and Huo Han also stared at the map without saying a word.
The general had asked the First Army Town to launch a general attack more than once, but Huo Han had not moved under pressure. The soldiers of the First Army Town under his command also sharpened their swords, impatiently waiting for the commander's order.
"Hohan, can't wait any longer! Now that the enemy army has been weakened to the weakest by us, it is the best time to send troops! You must not lose all the games because of Zhang Cheng! So many Jizhou boys died under the city of Ganyangdao, they all looked at us! We can't afford to lose! Han Jian couldn't help it, he stood up and shouted.
Yang Qiong also stood up, compared to Han Jian's straightforwardness, Yang Qiong spoke more politely, he said in a deep voice: "Brother Huo, the general has urged us to attack more than once!" If the Gyeongju army is really allowed to breathe, the losses will be great! In my opinion, it's time to attack! ”
Yang Qiong and Han Jian didn't know if they didn't want to attack, but they had no soldiers and horses to use! The only one who still has soldiers and horses in his hands is Huo Han alone, who still has 10,000 horses in his hands. At the moment, only he holds the initiative in the war!
With a long sigh, Huo Han turned around, and he said in a deep voice: "I have decided, tomorrow at dawn, the whole army will be pressed!" Storm Ganyang Road! He also knew very well in his heart that the fighter plane was fleeting, he couldn't wait for Zhang Cheng, maybe those thousand people had already died in the mountains, too many factors, so Huo Han had to consider the overall situation!
It took a day to finally rush to the bottom of the mountain Zhang Cheng and his entourage, and finally saw the long-awaited Ganyang Dao City!
Seeing the defenders of Ganyang City who were constantly patrolling back and forth in the city, Guo Cheng saw that the city was heavily guarded, and it was very difficult to enter the city, so he couldn't help frowning and asked, "General, what should I do?" ”
Zhang Cheng said decisively: "Go around behind Ganyangcheng and hijack the Gyeongju army!" Blend into the city! ”
When Guo Cheng heard this, his eyes lit up. "Good way! Let's go! ”
Slowly touched a mile from the south gate of Ganyang City, where Zhang Cheng and his entourage, who had been in ambush for a long time, finally waited for the lamb! A baggage force of 1,500 people is transporting the grain and grass of Ganyang City at night!
There are high mountains on both sides of Ganyang Road, and there are slopes in the north and south, and 1,500 people carrying grain and grass are sweating and pushing carts towards the city!
Zhang Cheng saw the opportunity, stood up and shouted: "Brothers, kill!" ”
A thousand warriors of life and death, who had just recovered from the cold, stood up together, let out an earth-shattering cry, and rushed out together.
Suddenly, seeing the enemy army wearing the armor of the Jizhou army actually appeared in Ganyang Road, the Gyeongju army, which was caught off guard, panicked and wanted to throw away the baggage and escape! But Zhang Cheng would not give them this opportunity, a thousand brothers rushed over with lightning speed, the enemy army was already on a downhill slope, the terrain was not favorable to them, coupled with panic, rushed to the battle, and rushed to the road for so long with baggage, it has become a tired army, and it will definitely be defeated.
Zhang Cheng and others easily took down this army with less than 20 casualties. After tying up the remaining more than 200 Gyeongju troops, Zhang Cheng immediately asked his brothers to strip them of their clothes, find dry food, and after a beautiful meal, nearly 1,000 people went to the city of Ganyangdao as a grain carrying baggage team.