Chapter Eighty-Eight: Killing Brothers
Yuan Xi walked into the spirit tent, looked at it intently, only to feel a thick yin qi rushing towards his face, and he couldn't help but shiver.
The tent was large enough, larger than usual, and it looked like it could accommodate at least two hundred people standing in the center, and I don't know why such a large spiritual tent was built? Maybe it's to make it easier for the soldiers of the three armies to worship, Yuan Xi thought.
In the innermost part of the tent was a black coffin, in front of which was a bed, and on it lay a corpse, covered with a vessel. In front of it are offerings such as sacrificial animals and fruits, and two thick white candles are burning at each end, which flicker from time to time as the occasional cold wind blows in, adding to the eerie atmosphere.
What reassured Yuan Xi was that in addition to Yuan Mai, there were no idle people waiting in the tent, so he was not afraid of Liyi's plots. In the huge tent, there were only two guards about fourteen or fifteen years old, dressed in silk uniforms, dressed as guide boys.
"My fourth brother, it was the foolish brother who hurt you!" Sensing that there was no danger in the spirit tent, Yuan Xi let out a howl again and walked forward.
While wiping away tears, he walked to the coffin, knelt down in front of Yuan Mai's body, and cried sadly: "My fourth brother, it was the second brother who did not guard the frontier well, allowing the Huns to enter the hinterland, causing you to lose your life in Huangquan......"
The voice became smaller and smaller, Yuan Xi quietly looked at Yuan Mai's body, only to see that his face was pale, but he was very peaceful, and there seemed to be a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, it seemed that he was not very painful when he died.
"Xianyong, our brothers, I didn't want to kill you......" Yuan Xi put his head in front of the body and said in a weak voice, "But you are unkind to me first, don't blame me for being unrighteous later, since ancient times, the king has been defeated, you lost, so you died......"
"Success and defeat, that's a good point!" The body, which had been lying flat, suddenly opened its eyes, terrifying and terrifying, sat up suddenly, and laughed in a low voice: "What if I didn't die? ”
Before Yuan Xi's exclamation could be made, he only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and suddenly lost the strength to speak, and a dagger stabbed into his chest fiercely, penetrating his heart, and blood instantly gushed out like a spring......
"You...... Good...... Ruthless ......"
Yuan Xi covered the dagger on his chest and struggled to get up, but his whole body was weak, and he wanted to shout loudly, but his throat was blocked by blood, and he could only spit out these three words with all his strength......
He really couldn't believe that it was not Yuan Mai who died, but himself. This little brother, who has been honest and obedient since he was a child, has become so cunning, so vicious, without any sympathy, without the slightest regard for brotherhood, and the cold dagger pierced his heart at once, so that he could not even say a complete sentence, how vicious!
The corners of Yuan Mai's mouth turned up, revealing a contemptuous smile, which is the expression that only Xiaoxiong has, "Didn't you say it, become a king and lose a villain, a small amount is not a gentleman, no poison is not a husband!" You lost, so it's you, not me, who died! ”
Yuan Xi clutched the dagger on his chest in pain, and spit out the last three words with his dying breath: "For...... Miscellaneous...... Is it? ”
"Because of Zhen Mi!"
Yuan Mai coldly spit out four words, if it weren't for her, Yuan Xi would have been released. Compared with Yuan Shang and Yuan Tanlai, the last thing that should be killed is Yuan Laoer, but for his own Luoshen, he had to take him to the knife first, and sure enough, it was the persimmon that picked up the soft pinch first!
"Zhen Mi?" Yuan Xi used his last strength, spit out two words, rolled his eyes, his body twitched a few times, and he slowly lay down, his face was full of unwillingness, but he didn't expect that it was a woman who caused death for herself.
"Rest in peace, I'll definitely take care of Mi!"
Yuan Mai stretched out his hand expressionlessly, wiped it on Yuan Xi's face, and closed his round open eyes, no need to die and not look away, I will take good care of the woman who should belong to you.
In fact, you don't have the ability to protect her at all, even if I don't come to this world without my Yuan Mai, after a few years, Ah Mi will still become a woman of the Cao family, and the Cao father and son are all salivating. Since you don't have the ability, then this responsibility will be entrusted to me.
"Come out and throw the man into the coffin!" Yuan Mai lay down again and whispered behind the coffin.
Immediately, two hidden warriors came out from behind, one grabbed the foot, the other grabbed the shoulder, and threw Yuan Xi, whose body had not yet cooled, into the coffin. This was originally the fate of the brothers, but in the end he became the elder brother, if Yuan Shao, who was far away in Yecheng, knew the story between the two sons, I don't know what he would think?
The two guiding boys stepped forward, put the plain white cloth on Yuan Mai's body again, wiped off the remaining blood stains on the ground, and then retreated to the door of the spiritual tent together, and shouted outside: "Please come in and worship Gongzi with the entourage of General Yuan Er!" ”
Yang Xiu and more than 200 followers had been waiting outside the tent, and at first he could hear a few cries of Yuan Xi, but after a while, there was no movement, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart. Carefully pricked up your ears to listen to the movement inside, quietly, occasionally there was a conversation, and there was no sound of killing, it didn't look like an ambush, so you could only wait anxiously outside.
Hearing the greeting of the "guide boy", Koi Yi patted Yang Xiu's shoulder and said loudly: "After the visit of Prince Xi, you should also go in and worship!" ”
"Everybody in?" Yang Xiu asked with flashing eyes, worried that he would be ambushed after entering.
"Yes, everyone went in to see off the buyer!" Lu Yi stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation, signaling Yang Xiu and the others to enter the account.
Since he let the soldiers in, Yang Xiu put his mind at ease. Since entering the camp, everyone has kept their weapons in their hands, and Koji Yi did not specifically ask them to unload their weapons, so Yang Xiu's vigilance relaxed slightly. Since you are allowed to bring people in, you are not afraid of an ambush inside, and it is not easy for more than 200 people on your side to kill them all. They are all men and horses under the command of the same lord, and they don't dare to go too far!
"Let's go, follow me in to worship the four princes, don't leave any of them, all come in."
Yang Xiu greeted his entourage loudly, and was the first to walk into the spirit tent. I saw that the huge tent was empty, and the empty space in front of the coffin was enough to accommodate more than 200 people to worship at the same time, and I don't know if it was specially set aside for the soldiers to worship?
Yang Xiu strode towards the center, and asked the guide boys standing on both sides as he walked: "Young Master Xi just came in to salute, why didn't you see a figure?" But where did it go? ”
"Young Master Xi was overly sad, and he was already accompanied by Lord Tian Feng just now, and went out to drink tea from the back door of the spirit tent." The guide boy replied.
Although Yang Xiu was suspicious in his heart, he didn't say much, waved his hand to signal the entourage behind him to be vigilant, and then led everyone to salute in front of the coffin. At the urging of Lu Yi, all the entourages entered the spirit tent one after another and followed Yang Xiu to salute.
There were more and more people in the tent, and although it was crowded, it could accommodate it, and when there were about 150 or 60 people who came in, and only thirty or forty people were left, an accident happened......
Hearing only the sound of "Peng", everyone only felt a softness under their feet, and the soil under their feet fell rapidly, and one hundred and fifty or sixty people exclaimed in unison, and fell into a big pit of three or four feet.
It turned out that Yuan Mai had ordered someone to dig the trap in advance, and camouflage it was made with wood, reeds, reed foil, etc., and if the weight on it was overweight, it would collapse. According to Yuan Mai's original calculations, the number of people on this trap reached one hundred and seventy or eighty before it would fall, and some details may not have been done well, so one hundred and fifty or sixty people came in, and the camouflage layer on the surface was overwhelmed and collapsed.
Hidden weapons such as sharp blades, bayonets, antlers, and thorns had already been arranged in the trap, and those who fell into it were immediately covered in bruises, and screams came and went. Yang Xiu was the worst, when he fell, he fell on a spear and was pierced through the neck, and he suddenly whimpered, and he didn't even have time to scream.
Before the remaining twenty or thirty people outside could react, they were waved by Ko Yi, and more than 100 elite soldiers suddenly poured out from the tents on all sides, forming a wall and driving the remaining 20 or so people into the tent and pushing them into the trap.
"Shoot me!"
With a wave of his hand, more than 200 crossbowmen were killed, the trap was surrounded in the center, and the arrows were shot down, and there was a scream. After the crossbowmen had finished shooting, another soldier carrying a cloth bag appeared, and they stepped forward one after another, and poured the sand and soil in the bag into the pit, and after a short time, the three-foot deep trap was filled into the ground, as if nothing had happened, and even the blood stains were left behind.
The wind blew, and the flags fluttered in the camp, as if singing a sad song for these unjustly killed ghosts.