Several cavalry smoothly cut the Hui into small formations like red-hot forks inserted into cheese, even so, those who were surrounded by the array were still waving their scimitars, and a Hui with their legs cut off was desperately slashing the black iron armor that was shaking in front of them with their scimitars on the layers of corpses, until they were stabbed into the heart and the bladed knife in their hands fell from their scarred hands. His lifeless pupils widened as he stared at the Great Zhou soldier who had pierced his heart from behind, as if at the moment he was killed, he suddenly wanted to turn over and take a final look at his opponent. The Great Zhou soldier gasped and glanced at the dead man, the smile that appeared on his face suddenly froze, and a powerful arm seemed to inject all the power into the spear in his hand, stepping on several slippery corpses and rushing over, as if he was going to die with him!

The spear had long been broken, the tip of the spear was no longer sharp, and the distance between the Hui man and him was so far that he didn't know if he could walk smoothly after being exhausted. The red blood had already covered the pair of densely stitched shoes, and there were so many corpses in front of and behind him that it was impossible to get off his feet, but the person who returned to him didn't even look at a few soldiers who rushed towards him screaming, and his reddened eyes stared straight at him.

The captain of the guard who stopped in place smiled, for the prince who could no longer hold on to the vomit as soon as he entered the battlefield, for the prince who felt disgusted when he looked at the blood, so easily blocked the scimitar that came from the sneak attack, for the person who seemed to be afraid of his actions after killing the Hui who attacked him, for the frightened expression on his face, and likewise, for his innocence.

"The battlefield is not a game field where a hairy boy who doesn't understand anything can come and go whenever he wants," the chief of the guard who came to Yuzhou with the emperor's secret edict all the way to Yuzhou smiled coldly, since he wanted to learn from the Seven Princes to establish immortal deeds on the battlefield, he had to turn his heart into a rock first.

The prince who was standing stupidly not far away was obviously panicked, he couldn't even believe that he had killed that person with a sword just now, and now, when another Hui soldier rushed towards him, he didn't want to pick up his weapon at all, and when the Hui man with broken clothes and armor rushed towards him covered in blood, a trace of inexplicable panic flashed in his heart.

He was no longer the weak prince, the demonic captain of the guard beside him had already trained him to be a man who could fight on the battlefield at any time like any warrior of heavy cavalry, but why, he still couldn't lift the weapon in his hand? Is it because of the hatred in that person's gaze? Or is it because of the big drop of crystal on the blood-stained face?

The broken spear stopped less than a foot in front of the prince. It seemed that it should have stopped, but it had been held up for so long because the person holding it had been so desperate, and the strong hands seemed to tremble as if they could no longer be overwhelmed, and the long blood-stained pole was used as a crutch by the man who had pierced the chest with the long arrow. He was still walking in the direction of the prince, step by step.

"Your Highness!" The guards who were fighting not far away had red eyes and rushed over with a shout, but the captain of the guard stopped them with a word, "Stop! He's a soldier now, not a highness! If he can't even pass this test, then he won't have to stay here. ”

Not daring to disobey the order of the chief of guards, the other guards muttered something in their mouths with some indignation, carefully and tacitly surrounded this area, of course they did not dare to stop the strict and even somewhat cruel training method of the chief of the guards, they knew better that if this still young prince could not become a real warrior, then if he became a general, he would kill many people.

As if he could no longer take the last step, the warrior who returned to the people could only gasp for breath, more and more blood foam overflowing from the corners of his mouth, as if he could no longer hold back and cough loudly, and every gasp would spit out a large mouthful of blood.

Looking at the dying man in front of him, the fifteenth prince seemed to have finally woken up, the long sword in his hand was raised again, and he clearly saw the chill in the eyes of the chief guard sitting on horseback, the kind of gaze that seemed to see through his heart was firmly staring at his face. The prince knew exactly what he wanted to see himself do, he wanted to see that he could wave his sword in front of the enemy in the open. He knew that if it weren't for the fact that he could kill the enemy with his own hands, the head of the guard's arrow would have pierced the heart of this Hui man at once.

But the man on the other side who was propping up his body with a broken spear and half-kneeling on the ground gasping for breath didn't even stop his eyes on him for a second. He had all the little time he had left on the other man, his brother who was staring at the blue sky with angry eyes and his legs cut off.

The fifteenth prince hesitated, he didn't know what he should do now.

The tears in the eyes of the Huiren fell on his heart one by one.

It took a long time for him to stick his sword on the ground, as if he were holding a baby who did not want to get out of bed, and gently placed the body of the younger brother in front of the elder brother who was still holding on.

After doing all this, the fifteenth prince stepped on his horse and turned on the horse's back, and without looking back, he rushed into another battlefield where he was fighting.

The cold face of the head of the guard suddenly appeared with an imperceptible smile.

The prince who was as weak as a fledgling and did not pass the wind, and now, at last, he has grown up.

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"Your Highness!" Seeing that the young general sitting on the horse ignored his words at all, and the bearded general wanted to say something, the fifteenth prince suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse and raised his ears vigilantly: "Listen, what is this sound?" ”

There were some sounds of different lengths in the distance, and after the bearded general stopped his horse and listened for a while, his serious expression slowly dispersed, and he leaned over to the young man and said with a smile: "This is the sound of a whistle deer, and it is said that a master of deer hunting will imitate the sound of the king of deer to attract the doe to come with Lingzhi, and I have seen those people when I hunted here before." But there are not a few people who can learn vividly, and there is no one in ten thousand people who can learn the ability, and the old people say that it is a matter of breaking life against the sky, unless it is time when there is no rice at home when the snow covers the mountain, it must not be used, but now it is not so, how can it be"

Looking at the person who couldn't keep his mouth shut when he opened the chatterbox, the prince looked him up and down, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face, "Have you lived here before?" ”

General Beard replied hurriedly, looking at his smug expression, he knew that this guy was about to start bragging about his exploits again: "Yes, I think I was still a hunter here, alas, you don't know, there are a lot of things in this forest, there are all kinds of things, sometimes if you are lucky, you can meet the big guys."

"Someone living here?" The fifteenth prince frowned.

"Yes, ten miles away is Qinglong Town, there," the guide soldier said again.

"Say nothing," the prince took in his expression.

"Yes, Your Highness," said the guide's face, "although there is a town, but," he hesitated again before continuing, "but there is no one living there, and I don't know if there was a sudden plague and all the people in the town died, or if they fled together, but in any case it is now haunted." Those last two words seem to have taken a lot of effort to get out.

Sure enough, as soon as his words came out, the generals who surrounded him all grinned and laughed: "Haunted? In this kind of place? You're not going to steal too much wine and talk nonsense today, are you? What the hell is there in this world. ”

The fifteenth prince frowned again, his face cloudy, "Is our road going through this forest?" ”

The guide hesitated again before replying, "Not only through the woods, but also through ghost towns." Your Highness, there is a little one who doesn't know whether to say it or not. ”

The fifteenth prince glanced at him, "But it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

The guide's face was solemn: "That ghost town is very large, and it is also very scary, there have been people before, but the people who went in have never come out, gradually, even the people in this neighborhood have moved away, but what is even more strange is that although there are fewer and fewer people here, there are often people's voices in the forest, the sound of hunting, the neighing of wild beasts, and the sound of whistling deer just now, it stands to reason that no one will whistle deer at such a time, but it just appeared, so the old people in the clan said, not only the ghost town is terrifying, I'm afraid there's something unclean going on in this forest, and now that the sun is about to set in the west, I think we'd better not move forward. ”

A few generals who didn't take life and death seriously at all burst into laughter again, how could someone who had already died countless times on the battlefield be afraid of ghosts? In their opinion, this is all an excuse made by cowardly people for themselves. Even if they were impressed by the guide's dexterity, if the guide was not a Han Chinese, but a small tribe living between the Great Zhou and the Tibetans whose names had not even been heard, coupled with their strange rituals and boring customs that were held once a year, several of the Great Zhou generals exchanged knowing glances, and shook their heads to say that they did not believe in the so-called ghosts and gods of a foreigner.

"How can you be so familiar with the situation here?" The fifteenth prince once again stabilized his mind and asked, the current situation has exceeded his expectations, if there is no reason why he must go around, he will definitely not take a detour because it is just a few rumors, but when he left, the chief of the guard told him to be careful in everything still made him hesitate a little.

"yes, didn't you say that no one had lived around since it was haunted, and how do you know if people are going to get in or out? Have you seen it with your own eyes? A general who was not convinced in his heart puffed out his eyes and asked, he is the kind of person who has no heart and no lungs, as long as he is unhappy, his face will be exposed.

"My uncle went in, and he was the Grubi of the people. But the next day I searched all the corners of the forest and found him, and none of the footprints he left left were those who entered the ghost town, but none of them came out, so I said that," the guide said word by word, looking at the nonchalant Lian.

The generals stopped talking for a moment, and although they all knew that the guide's people were suspicious people who believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, it did not mean that they could despise them at will, and you must know that even if any of them were given a group of soldiers in a tight formation in the dense forest to catch such a person, the hunted person would take advantage of the elusive things they knew and put them all to death, perhaps a trap with sharp branches, or rolling logs, or rope lassoes, Or blow needles soaked in snake venom or frog venom, everything in the forest will become friends with those guys and become their enemies, and if there are no guides from these people, even a sip of water will be poisoned, so although they are not interested in the theory of ghosts and gods, there is a little solemnity on their faces.

"What's Grubby?" A general asked in a whisper,

The bearded man's voice was like a cannonball: "You don't know this? Grubi is the highest praise of their people for a warrior, like we call a hero. ”

"Not only heroes," the guide added, turning his head, "but also a testament to wisdom and courage and great strength, for my uncle, Kayla, once single-handedly hunted an entire pack of wild wolves and tore apart leopards with his bare hands. ”

Almost everyone could hear their companions gasping. Unlike the bearded man who is full of nonsense, these people who live in the forest are very honest, they will never add an extra word in fact, in case there is really something wrong, the generals' faces are red and white for a while, in case there is really any monster or something, it is really going to die, and it is not a problem to fight, but to deal with those things that have no bottom in their hearts is really to catch ducks on the shelves.

"How much time do we have now?" As if he was thinking about something, the prince suddenly asked.

"Two days and one night, after this time, we will be late." Although it seems a little unreliable in normal times, the beard knows the most about the march.

"I'm not afraid to be late, but if I miss the matter of the Seventh Prince, then it's okay" Before he finished speaking, the person next to him had already blocked his mouth.

"Yan Shu, can you do divination now?" The fifteenth prince seemed to have made up his mind.

"Your Highness, I have already divined," Yan Shu looked a little strange in his respectful appearance, and said cautiously, "The big murderer." ”

There was no more chill on everyone's bodies, and although the sun had not yet set, the forest in front of them was becoming more and more eerie.

"It's definitely too late to go around, let's camp here tonight, the patrol soldiers have changed from ten to twenty, the light and dark sentinels have been quadrupled, at least one awake at the door of each barracks, and tell the archers to use rockets, and the fire is bright, if it weren't for our people shouting and not answering and then releasing the arrows, the scouts should not be sent out, and all the surrounding trees should be cut down, although I can't say whether there are ghosts or gods, but at least I can't learn to scare me away from rabbits now!" The prince was the first to jump off his horse.

"Yes!" All the generals shouted in unison.

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At night, it's slightly chilly.

I don't know if it has something to do with what the guide said about ghosts, in the huge forest, there is not even a bird's call, a faint mist has been permeating the surroundings, and the clothes are all wet with dew, and there is a damp smell on the hastily chopped firewood, mixed with the smell of those withered and rotten leaves in the forest, people will always smell a strange feeling, although they are not used to it at first, and it is not too bad after smelling too much.

The guide, who was the guide, stared gloomily at the blank forest in the distance, as if trying to see something strange from the path that led to the depths, and did not move for a long time before he came back to his senses and gave a loud command to burn the firewood.

After a few days of exhaustion and dinner, in less than half an hour the idle soldiers lay down, and the ground with only a thin quilt was cold and damp, far from the time when they slept in the barracks. A few guys who couldn't sleep at all quietly got up, and just wanted to say a few words to relieve their boredom, but suddenly saw that the lights in the big tent were always on.

The oldest soldier sighed and opened the conversation: "This prince is pampered, why do you want to go to such a place to endure hardships." ”

The one next to him took over the conversation: "You don't know this, hey, have you heard of it, this prince is a big hit among the princes, if he really becomes a prince, then we won't be in the future"

"Phew!" Someone immediately poured cold water on him: "No matter how much you say something like you, he won't remember you, I think you are still a good soldier, don't think about dreaming." ”

"Don't believe it, it is said that the emperor has issued an edict to make him a general." A round-faced man couldn't help but get up.

"I've only heard that General Wen is full of praise for him, is he really that powerful at a young age?" A person next to him asked puzzled.

"He's a prince, if you were too, maybe so," someone immediately snorted disdainfully.

"Shhhhh ”

"What way?" Several people suddenly became interested.

"Haven't you heard?" The questioner stared at the person in front of him for a short time with the eyes of an idiot, as if he was sure that this benevolent brother was not playing with himself, so he opened the conversation with confidence, as long as he looked at his spitting appearance, he knew that this guy must also be hearsay.

"That time, the enemy had tens of thousands of people attacking the camp, dozens of tents were lit, the fire burned half of the day was bright, everywhere there were screams of horses neighing, fortunately none of us were sleepy that day, we didn't fall asleep, I heard someone shouting and rushed out, the people of the fifth and the sixth of the first almost ran out of a time, only the first one of the people was unreliable, yesterday I heard that there was nothing to do, they were lying together like night owls and gambling until the middle of the night, and so on the next day, all of them slept like dead pigs, and only two of the dozen people ran out, The burning crying dad shouted Damn, that's really a miserable one. Our tent was relatively far back, and the fire crossbow that was too strong didn't even light the tent and passed through it all at once

The little one can only shoot in front, so it's still a fluke, alas, now it can really scare the cold sweat out" said that, the man sitting cross-legged in the middle of the crowd wiped a handful of sweat as if he was afraid.

"Liu Er, say, keep talking, let's have a good time." There are a few people who can't sleep quietly crawled out of the bed, this is that the weather is too hot, there are many mosquitoes in the tent, the second is that there has been no war at all today, and the whole body seems to have inexhaustible strength, if there is a warm quilt around it, it is okay, but the daughters-in-law of the big ass are probably still feeding the children at home, and the distant water can't save the near thirst, and the guy who just wanted to cover his head with a cup and pretend to be asleep pondered, a word, go to his mother's, anyway, it's idle and nothing, and it's not a bad thing to listen to someone brag, This is still the territory of the Great Zhou, and it is unlikely that the enemy will know their whereabouts, so it is not a big problem, it is a big deal to let one person put a sentry, if he sees someone to squeak first, then no one will be able to catch the handle.

Everything else is easy to say, only this proposal silenced everyone. A couple of older people nudged the babyface who seemed to be asleep, "Hey, you go over there and bring us a whistle." ”

Babyface reluctantly got up, "Why do you have to call me to go?" ”

Li Er immediately imprinted a footprint on his buttocks: "Go quickly, what are you talking about so much nonsense!" ”

Babyface sat at the mouth of the tent with sleepy eyes open, yawned long, as if frozen by the wind blowing from nowhere, curled up and grabbed a quilt to cover his body, leaned against the outside of the tent and fell asleep again.

The night is deeper. (To be continued.) )