Chapter 2: Escape
The autumn wind whimpered, blowing up the fallen leaves all over the place, and flew into the distance with boundless gloom, the dark clouds seemed to be pressed to the ground, the air was so dull that it seemed to explode, and an endless stream of refugees dragged their children and daughters, and ran endlessly towards Dingzhou, the largest city on the border of Great Chu. The meadow army was defeated, the 30,000 Great Chu border army collapsed, the Dingyuan, Weiyuan, Zhenyuan, and Fuyuan fortresses on the periphery of Dingzhou were all lost within a few days, and hundreds of thousands of Great Chu people were directly thrown to the barbarians, and the barbarians' crazy burning and looting made countless villages into ruins, and the corpses were everywhere, and countless Dingkou were captured, and the black smoke of burning the villages covered the sky, and the entire Dingzhou periphery was a gloomy cloud.
At this time, Li Qingzheng, who was still far away from Dingzhou City, was sitting cross-legged on the slope of the mountain, and a few days of escape made him exhausted, and also made him understand a lot of things, looking at the endless stream of fleeing crowds under the mountain, seeing that from time to time there were routs or groups, or horses whistling past, everyone had only one goal, that is, Dingzhou City, where there were strong city walls, and tens of thousands of troops, which could protect their own safety.
Raising his eyes to the sky, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, he came to this era inexplicably, and attached himself to this guy who is also named Li Qing, but I don't know if I have some debts in my previous life that I need to repay in this life. At the moment, I really don't know whether to be happy or sad, it's good to be alive, but in this world, I really don't know how long I can live.
In the past few days, he has been constantly fusing the memory of this body, and he has also inherited the original heritage of this body, to say that this Li Qing's body is very good, much stronger than his previous life, just the eight distinct muscles on his chest and abdomen are impossible for the guy who dreamed of having in his previous life, but was too lazy to refine. And this guy's background is also quite interesting. Thinking of this, the corners of my mouth opened again, and the wound on my leg began to hurt again, fuck, I don't know if I will get rabies, I scolded in my heart.
"Captain, let's go!" Behind him, a bearded man hummed and said. At this time, behind Li Qing, there were dozens of routs, these people were Li Qing fleeing all the way, gathered around the people, these people are not good at stubble, some wanted to rob Li Qing's weapons and surrendered after being knocked down by Li Qing, and some were encountered when Li Qing organized an ambush to ambush the lone barbarian, in short, all of them were fierce and dared to kill and dare to cut the guys.
"Let's go!" Li Qing stood up, the army of barbarians has been wandering outside, don't look at the few lonely barbarians he met a few days ago, his group of people swarmed up and killed happily, but as long as he encountered a large group of people, it would definitely be a meat bun beating a dog, and throwing it into it would not even make a splash. At this time, if you can be one step closer to Dingzhou, you will be safer, after all, in Dingzhou, there are still 20,000 Great Chu border troops guarding it.
At this time, Li Qing didn't care about what to consider, living was his only purpose now, as for the rest, let's take a step at a time, but mixed in the fleeing crowd, the hostile eyes of the surrounding refugees also made him sit on pins and needles, and the hatred in those angry eyes made Li Qing secretly worried, I don't know when these irrational refugees will rush up and tear themselves to pieces.
If it weren't for the fact that he still had a spear in his hand and a war knife hanging from his waist, Li Qing believed that these people would definitely destroy him, and in the past few days, even if he was sleeping, Li Qing would have to keep his eyes half-open. But the unbearable insults still drilled into his ears from time to time, and Li Qing was speechless about this, he felt that these refugees hated them for a reason, although he was somewhat innocent. In addition to paying the taxes of the imperial court to their meager income, they also had to add the border taxes of Dingzhou, and these border taxes were precisely used to support soldiers like themselves.
After taking other people's offerings, they naturally had to protect the safety of others, but they didn't do it, thinking of this, Li Qing was a little ashamed, and in the midst of these insults, Captain Yunlu Li Qing lowered his head and didn't say a word.
But these soldiers around Li Qing didn't think like this, when they heard the unbearable scolding, they all showed fierce faces and hideous faces, "Captain Li, they deceive people too much!" Wang Qinian, who had a long beard, gritted his teeth rattling, "It's not that Lao Tzu doesn't fight hard, Lao Tzu also killed a few barbarians under the knife, but what does that help, the army collapsed, Lao Tzu didn't run, and he died in vain?" "
The lean cavalryman Jiang Kui had a gloomy face, and his eyes glanced at the high-headed horse with a red color that was only a hundred meters away from him, which was his mount, and was snatched away by a group of refugees the day before yesterday. At that time, he was alone, and he was almost beaten to death, if it weren't for his martial arts, he would have died. Today, I saw his horse again, tied to a car by those refugees, and used as a horse.
"Captain, I am a cavalryman, the horse is my life, such a good war horse, it was actually used by them as a horse, and it will not take a few days for this horse to be scrapped."
More than a dozen soldiers gathered around Li Qing, "Captain, you order, fuck it, this angry old man is fed up."
A small man silently took out a short knife from the boot shaft, the blade was attached to his forearm, stretched out the tip of his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, his eyes were full of fierceness, and he looked around at the crowd, as if looking for a target. This guy's name is Feng Guo, and I don't know what he used to do, but looking at the way he holds the knife, he knows that he is a good murderer.
The noise of these GIs alerted the refugees gathered not far from them, and when they saw this group of routs with fierce eyes in their eyes, the refugees couldn't help but become timid, and involuntarily retreated slowly, and after a while, the originally noisy road actually quieted down.
Li Qing pulled out his war knife violently, and all the defeated soldiers couldn't help but show joy, and Jiang Kui even raised his feet and wanted to run towards his war horse.
"Shut up! Li Qing shouted angrily, and in the stunned look of the defeated soldiers, Li Qing raised his sword and said: "These people scolded well, we ate food and became soldiers, we were meant to protect them, we defeated them, let their wives be separated, their families were ruined, they have reason to hate us. Who dares to hurt these refugees, Lao Tzu hacked him. Be honest with me."
Everyone was silent, Jiang Kui retracted his feet in frustration, they are all veterans for many years, they have been in the barracks all the year round, and the strict ranks in the army have soaked their blood, although Li Qing is not subordinate to them, but according to the battlefield discipline, the routs and stragglers must accept the unified command of all the officers he can meet who are higher than their own military ranks, otherwise, they will be beheaded. What's more, after getting along with Li Qing these days, everyone was also impressed by his courage, and fled all the way, and they actually killed dozens of lone barbarians.
Li Qing swiped the knife back into the scabbard, but he was glad in his heart, fortunately, these defeated soldiers still have a little bit of discipline and shame, and fortunately he is still a captain, otherwise, it will not end well today, he was injured, but Wang Qinian and others are good, looking at the figure of several of them, if they really want to fight alone, they may not be opponents.
Seeing that this group of routs died down again, the curses around them sounded again, looking at the changing expressions of several people around him, Li Qing was worried that he would not be able to control the scene, and he couldn't help but hate the refugees around him, Damn, you can bully a rout, but there are more than a dozen of them here, and they have all seen blood, if you really want to fight, you are worth a fart.
"Let's go, the humiliation we have suffered here today, let's find the barbarians to get it back." Li Qing walked in the direction of Dingzhou with his spear, and more than a dozen rout soldiers followed him step by step.
At this time, Dingzhou was already under martial law in the whole city, the meadow army was defeated, and the 30,000 border troops were wiped out, so that the prosperous Dingzhou was directly exposed to the barbarian soldiers, and Dingzhou has not seen war for decades. The bustling city seemed lifeless, with residents closed, shops closed, and the streets barely populated except for the occasional troop of troops.
"Ma Mingfeng, you bastard." Dingzhou battalion, a roar spread far away, the master of the Dingzhou army, Xiao Yuanshan was mad with anger, the whole two associations and six battalions, plus four fortresses, 30,000 soldiers, just like that, the door of Dingzhou was opened, and he had worked hard for many years to maintain the strategic advantage over the barbarians.
The Great Chu military system, one army and three associations, one association and three battalions, one battalion and three wings, one wing and three sentinels, one post and three fruits, the Dingzhou army in Xiao Yuanshan's five years of painstaking management, the combat power has increased very quickly, but this time the operation is a last resort, originally the six battalions of the Left Association of the Central Association, plus the garrison of four military villages, 30,000 people marched together, but the left association general Ma Mingfeng did not listen to the order, led the headquarters of the light army, and Xiao Yuanshan's Chinese Association was too far away, was defeated by the barbarian Da Danyu seized the fighter plane interspersed with surrounding, and in order to save him, he had to pour the Chinese Association out of the nest, This is the ambush of the barbarians, a big defeat and loss, this battle, can be said to have lost a little capital that he has worked hard for five years, Xiao Yuanshan can't help but be angry, "The general please calm his anger, General Ma is defeated, his whereabouts are unknown, the top priority is to ensure that Dingzhou is not lost, so that he can talk about other things." Xiao Yuanshan's chief staff Shen Mingchen was worried.
"Ma Mingfeng, I'm going to kill you! Xiao Yuanshan gritted his teeth, drew his sword and slashed a few times, a few swords went down, and the tiger case was already chopped to a mess, and the remaining anger was not gone, so he raised his hand and threw the sword fiercely, grazing the top of the head of a personal soldier who had just stepped into the gate and flew out, and hit the helmet so that it flew to the place.
The pro-soldier was stunned, and looked at Xiao Yuanshan with his mouth wide open, his lips opened and closed, but he didn't make the slightest sound.
"What's the flustered about? Xiao Yuanshan roared angrily at the pro-soldier.
This roar finally called back the soul of the pro-soldier, "General, Lord Zhizhou asked the general to go over to discuss the matter."