Chapter 540: The Dead Are Immortal
Yuan Xu rushed to the East China Sea and personally paid tribute to the hundreds of soldiers of the Tianhai Battalion who died in the battle that day.
In addition to hundreds of Tianhai battalions, there were also dozens of night thorns led by Ma Fei himself.
Tai Shi Gong and Zhu Yu rode their horses left and right, walking beside him.
With a humble status, although he was already a captain, walking beside Yuan Xu, Zhu Yu was still full of uneasiness.
After all, behind him, there are still a few Penglai fierce generals!
"Childe, it's not far ahead!" Seeing a scorched black mountain in front of him, Zhu Yu raised his hand and pointed: "That day, Cao's army was too strong to resist the enemy, so I ordered the mountain to be set on fire!" ”
Yuan Xu didn't say anything, and his face was not good.
From a distance, the entire mountain has been burned to the ground.
If it weren't for Zhu Yu going down the hill in the fight that day, once he fell into the fire, he would not be able to escape death!
Getting closer and closer to the charred hills, Yuan Xu seemed to be able to smell the mushy smell of the scorched trees burned by the fire.
At the foot of the mountain, he raised his hand to stop the procession.
Turning over and dismounting, Yuan Xu said to everyone: "The heroic spirit is above, and it is disrespectful for me to wait for me to ride up the mountain." Everyone walks with so-and-so! ”
Yuan Xu got off the horse, how could everyone dare to stay on horseback?
Walking on the way up the mountain, everyone only felt that their feet were soft.
The thick charcoal gray was like a blanket spread on the hill, and it was very comfortable to walk on it, but the shoes were dyed black.
"Captain Zhu, where were you waiting at that time?" Halfway up the mountain, Yuan Xu asked Zhu Yu.
Looking around and discerning the direction, Zhu Yu pointed forward: "It's not far ahead!" ”
"Lead the way!" Yuan Xu commanded.
Zhu Yu led the way, because the trees were burned to charcoal, the mountains and forests of that day had become bare barren, and it was not easy to find a place to stop Cao's army.
As he was walking, Zhu Yu suddenly pointed forward and shouted, "Childe." There it is! I remember the boulder! ”
Looking in the direction he pointed, Yuan Xu really saw a big blackened stone.
The stone was half stuck in the dirt, and the other half looked like a hand that was outstretched down the mountain.
Running to the boulder, Zhu Yu stroked the stone and said, "The Cao army is attacking from the bottom of the mountain, and it is behind this stone that we are guarding." ”
When he arrived at the stone, Yuan Xu looked down the mountain.
The stone points south. Cao Jun met the Penglai Army that day, and it was from the south to the north.
"Childe!" Ma Fei came up: "But do you want to pick up the bones of the soldiers?" ”
"It's all burned to charcoal, and even if it comes out, how can you tell which enemy army is and which is ours?" Yuan Xu said: "The deceased is gone, let them lie here quietly, I don't want to bother." ”
Ma Fei retreated.
Looking up at the top of the mountain, Yuan Xu shouted: "Bring the stone tablet here!" ”
The accompanying carriage was carrying a stone monument and had already been transported down the mountain.
Although the hill was burned bare, the path was still difficult.
More than a dozen soldiers of the Tianhai Battalion tied the monument to the wooden plank. Even the push and pull were transported halfway up the mountain.
When the stele arrived, Yuan Xu said, "Stand up!" ”
When someone stepped forward to dig a pit, and waited until the pit where the monument was erected was dug, the title of the book was that the soldiers of the Tianhai Battalion erected it on the mountainside.
Yuan Xu looked at the stele and saw a line of small seal characters engraved on the stele - Penglai Bailie fought against the 30,000 Cao army here!
"Serve!" Yuan Xu shouted.
Two Penglai soldiers ran over with pottery bowls and wine jars.
first poured wine for Yuan Xu, and then the two of them poured a full bowl for the general and Zhu Yu who came to worship.
"Salute the warriors who died here!" Holding the wine bowl, Yuan Xu shouted: "The deceased is like this, and its power is not extinguished." The soul of the heroes is forever, and the emperor is swinging! Magnificent. I'm a Penglai soldier! ”
Yuan Xu poured the wine from the bowl on the charred floor.
All the people who came with him spilled wine at their feet.
"The princes are spilling Penglai's blood here." Holding the wine bowl, Yuan Xu said: "A certain respectful prince! ”
Raising his neck, Yuan Xu drank the wine in one gulp.
Then the crowd drank the wine in their bowls.
Only Zhu Yu didn't drink the wine, standing on the hill, he was already full of tears.
He knelt down with his legs bent. He shouted at the top of his voice: "Brothers! Open your eyes and see! Childe personally sent you and waited! ”
The wine bowl fell to the ground, Zhu Yu didn't care about the coke everywhere, and knelt on the ground and cried bitterly!
The cry is sad, and the smell is all wiped with tears.
"Zixiao!" Yuan Xu said: "Blow the horn!" Tell the soldiers that they can take down the hill! ”
Shout to the end. Yuan Xu's voice was also choked.
He didn't come here, he only knew that the fight was fierce.
Standing on the hill, it was like witnessing the desperate fight that unfolded in the flames.
The soldiers' dying blow stopped Cao's army here for the whole night, buying time for the transfer of the army.
If no reinforcements from the East China Sea arrive in time, Guangling and Xuzhou will rush to help the soldiers and horses or be intercepted by Cao's army!
Once Xiapi is lost, the consequences are unimaginable!
Tai Shi Gong took the horn from the soldiers on the side and stepped forward.
Before the trumpet sounded, he shouted: "Soldiers! You intercepted Cao's army and made immortal contributions to our army. A certain order to evacuate the hill immediately! ”
When the shouting was over, he blew the horn in his hand.
Tai Shi Gong is not a trumpeter after all, and the sound of the horn he blows is just a "whine" sound.
The mountains echoed the horns, as if to explain to the people the tragic battle of the day.
The charred soil has cooled, the raging flames have been extinguished, and the hundred soldiers of the Tianhai Battalion guarding the mountain have long since become one with the mountains.
Looking around the mountains, Yuan Xu clenched his fists tightly.
It has been three or four years since the attack on Yi Jing.
The war is still in turmoil, no matter how elite the soldiers, as long as the war does not stop, one day they will be buried in the wilderness!
I don't want to fight, but I have to kill!
I don't want to fight, but I can't stop!
Standing on the scorched hill, Yuan Xu instantly felt a sense of powerlessness!
Fate threw him to the end of the Han Dynasty and gave him an extremely embarrassing identity.
He had thought of using his familiarity with history to turn things around!
In any case, it can't reverse the trend of the general trend!
Guandu!
The Yuan family took the lead, he had the opportunity to break the enemy in one fell swoop, but because of Yuan Shao's stubbornness and the internal friction of the Yuan family, he saw that the opportunity was missed!
Kuratei!
The other battle may have the effect of turning things around, but fate played a great joke on him!
The Yuan family is in decline!
Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are still fighting in Hebei, but he has already felt the crisis from Xudu!
Cao Cao has a Cao Shuo by his side, although he went to the Huns, he will come back sooner or later!
Two people who are also familiar with history, once they meet on the battlefield, what is his chance of winning?
The soldiers who buried their bones in the wilderness are just the beginning of Penglai's conquest in troubled times!
In the future, many more will die on the battlefield.
Penglai will also have countless orphans and widows!
Although he was not the culprit in all this, he was the executioner who tied the soldiers to the chariot!
"Childe!" Yuan Xu was still in a daze, and Ma Fei came to his side: "It's cold on the mountain, let's go back early." (To be continued.) )