Chapter 691: Meritorious Service Saves Life

It had only been four or five days since the heavy rain, and the ground was already dry as if it had been burned by fire. The wind rolls against the ground, and the sand that blows up can easily burrow into people's eyes. The child hiding in the dense grass on a high slope rubbed his eyes, and although his face turned pale with fright, he still stared at the terrible battle on the plain below the high slope.

Hiding in the grass were two or three half-old children, as well as two women and five or six men, all of whom had fled from Hebei. You must know that the matter of swords and soldiers is the most murderous in the world, and if you are accidentally implicated, you will die without a corpse.

These dozen or so people hid in the grass and didn't dare to come out, for fear of provoking the fierce gods below.

The blinded child turned back to his father and asked, "Grandpa...... Who's fighting with whom? Why did you fight so fiercely, it seems that the people who are surrounded in the innermost part are dead. ”

His grandfather is a lame man, and half of his face is obviously injured and missing a piece of meat, so it looks particularly hideous and ugly, but he doesn't know why, he stares at the fighting scene below, and the things in his eyes are extremely hot.

"Outside is either the Tang Army or the Yan Yun Army!"

The man said firmly: "But it must be Xia Jun who is trapped inside." ”

"Grandpa, how do you know?"

The child continued.

The man subconsciously lowered his head and looked at the gray coat inside his torn clothes...... He didn't know how to explain to his children, he was a member of the Great Sui Mansion Army, and he was a subordinate of Xue Shixiong, the general of Zuo Zhengwei, and in the battle of Juma River, General Xue Shixiong was defeated, and the elite of 30,000 Mansion soldiers was almost slaughtered, he was a survivor and later surrendered to Great Xia, and he used to be a chief, but he broke his leg in the battle of attacking Zhuo County, and he was also slashed in the face.

After that, he became a waste, and there has always been no waster in the army. He got a few good severance pay, found a village and took a woman who was also lame, and gave birth to this baby...... He thought that he would live a stable life like this, but who would have thought that when the Great Xia Kingdom captured soldiers, each family had to produce a male, and his children who were less than ten years old would also have to work as coolies in the baggage camp! So he stabbed the official to death with a knife that he had hidden for six or seven years, and fled south with several families in the village who were also poor and poor.

Someone once said that under the rule of King Yan, it was much richer and more peaceful than that of Great Xia.

But after they crossed the river, they found that hundreds of thousands of troops in Great Xia were fighting with the Tang army of Yanyun Army in Dongjun, and they had to turn around and flee, but they did not expect to encounter another battle when they arrived here.

"Grandpa?"

Without waiting for the father's answer, the child called him again.

"Let's go, don't look any further."

The man rubbed the corners of his sour eyes and was about to leave, but his child pulled the corner of him and begged, "Grandpa, I want to watch it for a while." ”

"Knife and soldier murder, you are not allowed to touch it for the rest of your life, don't look at it!"

The man lowered his voice and scolded angrily, and the child who was less than ten years old reluctantly glanced at the battle situation below, and muttered in a low voice: "Manly man, you still have to go into battle to kill the enemy!" When I grow up, if I join the army, I will kill foreign enemies, Goguryeo, Turks, Hui, and Tiele! And not the Central Plains people themselves to fight around! ”

The man's face changed greatly, and he was about to scold but was stopped by a man from the same village: "Xue Rail, don't beat the child!" Let's go, if the rangers find out, we will be mistaken for Xia Jun's fine work, and it will be bad. ”

The man named Xue Liang sighed, dragged the child and left.

It was only a few people who turned around and froze with fright, and their faces became extremely pale. At the foot of the high slope behind them, I don't know when it was densely packed with soldiers in fine armor. The lance was like a forest, and the black armor was connected like a large dark cloud falling to the ground.

They had barely emerged from the grass when they were surrounded by dozens of elite infantry.

"What are you doing here?"

A silver-armored general on a tall horse asked in a gentle tone.

Xue Liang knelt down with a limp, and kowtowed again and again: "The grass people and others are all refugees passing by, and they have to hide when they encounter the fighting of the army. ”

"Listen to your accent over there?"

The Silver Armor General asked.

Xue Liang hurriedly explained: "The family has changed dramatically, so I have to flee out to beg for a living, and the ancestral home of the grass people is indeed Hedong. Later, he begged all the way to Hebei, but after a few years, he encountered a man-made disaster and fled again. ”

"It's hard for you to flee from Hebei to here. What is your name? ”

"My name is Xue Rail."

"The Xue clan in Hedong can be regarded as a prestigious family."

"It's long been broken......"

Xue Liang sighed and said, "The grass people and others are all passers-by, please spare us." ”

"Take off your coat."

The silver-armored general pointed at Xue Liang and said.

"Grass People...... The grass people's clothes were picked up...... Picked up! ”

Xue Liang hurriedly lowered his head.

"You have a knife wound on your face, I can see it. The clothes inside you are Xia Jun's clothes, and I can see that you can prove that you are not meticulous? ”

The silver armor general waved his hand and said: "Take them all, go back and hand them over to the people of the Military Inspection Department for a first trial, if ordinary people will naturally not embarrass you, send you to Dongping County to Tuntian, at least you can be fed and clothed." ”

"I want to join the army!"

Xue Liang's son suddenly stood up and stopped in front of his father: "My grandfather didn't lie!" ”

"Haha!"

The Silver Armor General laughed out loud, pointed his whip at the boy and asked, "How old are you?" ”

"Nine!"

"What's it called?"

"Xue Rengui!"

"Xue Rengui, wait until you're weaned and come back to join the army!"

The silver armor general laughed loudly and smiled at Xue Liang: "I can see that you are not meticulous, but as long as you are taken down, you can be directly sent to Tuntian, Dongping County, after being interrogated by the people of the Military Inspection Department, which is more labor-saving and safer than walking over by yourself." ”

"General Caomin Xie!"

Xue Liang thanked him from the bottom of his heart and bowed his head deeply.

"Xue Rengui!"

The silver armor general pointed to a person who was trapped by Wuhua in the distance and said: "Remember, if you join the army in the future, don't be that kind of person, you must be bloody, and you would rather be a ghost who died in battle than a slave!" ”

"I remember!"

The little boy puffed up his chest and repeated: "I'd rather be a slave than a ghost who died in battle!" ”

Xue Liang subconsciously raised his head and looked, and his heart immediately boomed, he recognized that the war criminal who was tied up by the five flowers turned out to be Cao Dan, the most favored general under King Xia!

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The place where the Xia army was defeated is less than fifty miles away from Xingluocang, and there is a very elegant name here called Chu Feng Pavilion, it is said that there was once a former sage and great virtue to send off guests here, and its guests were Chu people, so they got their name. In the early years, there was indeed a pavilion here, but it had already collapsed without repairing it, and after many years, the pavilion could not have been turned into a handful of loess.

The terrain of Chu Feng Pavilion is flat, which is suitable for the decisive battle.

It was here that Yuwen Shiji surrounded with an army of 100,000 and slaughtered tens of thousands of Xia troops led by Cao Dan to the south in one go. From the very beginning, he didn't give Cao Dan a chance to breathe, and killed tens of thousands of Xia troops with the power of lions and rabbits. Cao Dan came from afar, the soldiers were tired and tired, and they were surrounded by surprise attacks, where was there any resistance, six or seven times out of ten they were defeated before fighting.

Where the old site of Chu Fengting was located, Yu Wenshi and his men trapped Cao Dan.

After a fierce battle, there were less than 2,000 people left around Cao Dan. The Yan Yunjun outside was surrounded layer by layer, not to mention a person, even a bird would not want to fly out. At this time, including Cao Dan, all the remnants of the Xia army knew that there was no longer any life. As long as the general of the Yanyun army led the troops gave an order, and ten thousand arrows were fired, these two thousand remnants would become dead corpses in an instant.

White feathers pave the ground, where is there a chance to survive!

But at this time, Cao Dan unexpectedly dropped!

Speaking of which, Cao Dan's special identity is there, and he himself once said that anyone in the Great Xia Dynasty can turn his back on King Xia, but he can't. Anyone can surrender and beg for their lives, but he can't. Because he is the eldest brother of Empress Cao, if he turns his back on King Xia, his sister is afraid that he will also be implicated.

A while ago, because Dou Jiande planned to make Xiao Yizhen the queen, Queen Cao was furious, led people to make trouble in the court, and even slapped Xiao Yizhen. Because of this incident, the emperor was greatly annoyed and almost deposed Empress Cao. But under the persuasion of Dou Hongxian and others, this matter was revealed.

Dou Jiande has always had the reputation of being afraid of his wife, but now that he is an emperor, how can he allow his wife to make a big fuss in the court?

But the kindness between the two husbands and wives is still there, so there is no big mess. But because of this incident, Dou Jiande must have been disgusted with Queen Cao.

That's why Cao Dan first asked for orders to lead the army to attack Juyeze in Dongping County, and then asked for orders to attack Xingluocang. If Empress Cao falls out of favor, he will also be unlucky, and he must rely on military merits to regain the emperor's attention to himself, but the fact that he led the troops is limited, and he was killed in Dongping County and returned, and less than 20,000 of the 100,000 troops fled back. This time, he led the troops to fight Xingluocang, and it was another defeat.

Everyone thought that he would be martyred, but they did not expect him to surrender.

Yu Wenshi, who was dressed in silver armor, glanced at Cao Dan contemptuously, and then asked people to take him down.

"Thank you for the kindness of the general not to kill! Thank you for the kindness of the general not to kill! ”

Cao Dan was busy thanking him, extremely humble.

Yu Wenshi smiled and said, "I don't kill you, I don't pity you...... It's because after the big victory, you will inevitably sacrifice prisoners to Chang'an City, and your identity is barely enough for my lord to take a look. In the future, I will capture Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong and send them to Chang'an...... You can still live for a while. ”

Cao Dan was ashamed, but he didn't dare to speak.

"But ......"

Yu Wenshi and the words turned around, looked at Cao Dan and said very seriously: "If you can make some merits, I can also say some good things for you in front of the lord, and if you have merit, it is not impossible for the lord to leave your life, and there will be some praise...... It just depends on how much credit you have made. ”

"Would you like to?"

"I don't know...... What is the credit? ”

Cao Dan asked tentatively.

"Have you ever exchanged letters with Wang Shichong?"

"There is ......"

"Write a letter and let Wang Shichong lead the army to help you attack Xingluocang, if he comes out of the city, you will be a great achievement. Even if he doesn't leave the city, I can help you intercede in front of the lord. ”

"It's not a difficult task to conquer the East......"

Yu Wenshi said lightly: "I just don't want to hurt people's lives more, you should know how much credit you have for helping me win the Eastern Capital." ”

The corners of Cao Dan's mouth twitched, and he nodded vigorously and said, "I'll write!" ”