The End of the Sui Dynasty

, since the Xi people are already dead. Seeing that the sky was getting darker around him, Luo Wu couldn't help but urge: "Let's go back!" "Some dead people scared you?" Major General Luo Cheng said with a shallow smile.

Luo Wu was not stopped by the major general, he was over forty years old, and he had followed the general to guard the border for many years, and he had already seen a situation that was many times more tragic than this. It's just that when the general left, he told him to stay and take good care of the major general, so he had to do his duty.

If it weren't for the young general, he wouldn't have brought him this time.

"If you're dead, you're dead," Luo Wu said disapprerovingly: "In this place, there are always so many people dying every day, so why bother with them." ”

"But why did they die?" Major General Luo Chengdao: "There is always a reason why the Xi Turks died in front of our pass, since my father asked me to stay, then I have to be loyal." In case Xi Ren is going to make a mistake, we should prepare early. Saying this, Major General Luo Cheng's eyes were not half fearful, but his heart was full of faint expectation. This time, my father led his troops to Linhai and brought his eldest brother Luo Chun and his second brother Luo Song, but he refused to take him away and left him here.

Luo Cheng has just turned eighteen this year, and it is said that the Luo family's five-hook flying spear has been practiced superbly, but his father still thinks that he is not as good as his two elder brothers. This time I went to the east to fight the rebels in Liaodong, but I refused to take him with me. It made him feel depressed, and today he heard that the scouts outside the north entrance had found the corpses of many Xi people, so he excitedly led a team of scouts to check.

He didn't see anything at the moment, how could he be willing to go back.

The hometown general Luo Wu had long known about the young general's Ren xìng, and when he saw that Luo Cheng was unwilling to go back, he sighed slightly. "Beyond that, there are wild mountains, and there are no people there. Most of the people living in the forest over the years are those from Xi Kingdom, and if we don't go back, we won't even be able to eat a hot meal tonight. Moreover, in summer, there are the most snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants in the forest at night, but I am afraid that the major general will not be used to it. ”

Major General Luo Cheng's guards were Zheng, Luo Wei looked up at the dim forest, and there was some arrogance like his master Luo Cheng, "General Luo Wu, could it be that there is still your friend in the city waiting for you to go back, right?" ”

Luo Wei could see Luo Wu's tightly pursed mouth and the suppressed anger.

Luo Wu has been with the master for more than 20 years, and this qualification is very high among the generals of the Luo family. But Luo Wei didn't buy it, he followed the major general since he was a child, and he has been with him for eighteen years, and everyone's status is about the same.

However, Luo Wei followed the young general, although he studied martial arts together, but he had never been on the battlefield like the young general, he defended the desperate Great Wall for only four years, although he grew up in the border pass since he was a child, but it was the first time he ran outside the pass like now. Looking at this large area of dense forest, his heart was also a little nervous.

Especially at this time, the evening is very different from the past, and there is an inexplicable kind of horror in the darkness around him, which makes his hairs stand on end. They left the north entrance in the morning and had been walking around the old forest all day, and along the way they had already discovered more than a dozen slaughtered Xi settlements. The further north you go, the worse it gets, and now it's at rock bottom. A gust of wind blew the shadows of the trees, like a hideous creature Luo Wei felt that he was being watched by an unknown thing that was cold and had no good feelings for him all day long, and Luo Cheng also felt it, but the two young people who came out for the first time did not say what they felt in their hearts, and only regarded this as the nervousness when they came out of the customs for the first time. On the contrary, they behaved more casually, as if they would not be laughed at.

Major General Luo Cheng is the third and youngest son of Luo Yi, the general of Zhuojun Hubenlang.

He has just turned 18 years old this year, and he is a handsome and beautiful son. He looked a little different from his father and his two elder brothers, who were the same as his father, both of whom were fierce and rough, with a big beard. But Luo Cheng inherited the bloodline of his graceful mother who was born in Jiangnan, with a handsome white face and a jade tree in the wind. And because he was a child, he was invited by his mother to learn Confucianism, and under Luo Cheng's handsome appearance, he behaved elegantly and was full of family style.

At this time, he rode on his sturdy white horse, much taller than Luo Wei and Luo Wu on the side. He was wearing white sè leather boots, white sè robe, white sè deerskin gloves, and white sè light leather armor on top of the white sè robe, and a shining bright silver unicorn bright light fish scale battle armor on top of it. Although this is the first time that Luo Cheng led his troops out of the customs, he was by no means unprepared and came empty-handed, at least he had a lot of things. …,

Of course, the most dazzling outfit on Luo Cheng's body is naturally the silver-white sè skin that is both thick and frighteningly soft. With this alone, many families can't buy a corner even if they earn a lifetime.

Luo Wu called a scout in black leather armor: "Zhang Ergou, you tell us again,

What did you find when you went to explore the path? "Two miles away, over a ridge, next to a stream." Zhang Ergou replied: "I'm very close. There were eighteen people in all, both men and women, and three children. They were all lying on the chuáng in the hut, but all of them were no longer breathing. When I looked closely, I found that all the necks were twisted, and there was no trace of trauma or blood. "Aren't there any signs of a fight?"

"No" Zhang Ergou said without hesitation: "All the people died on the chuáng, and there was even one person with a sleeping smile on his face." ”

"Do you see any weapons?" "A dozen knives, a dozen bows, and an axe and a large shield were found in one of the guys' cabins, as well as a pair of armor. The iron-struck double-edged axe, which looked like it was heavy, rested on the ground on his right hand. That armor is not bad, it's chain mail, and it's hanging on the wall. ”

After listening to the scout's report, Luo Wu at the border of Jiuzhen was already sinking like water. Originally, when he heard the scout's report that many of the Xi people who had fled to the forest outside the Guanguan to fish and hunt had died, he didn't care. Anyway, they are all from Xi State, and it doesn't matter if they die, he knows that every year there are some small tribes on the grassland, and after losing the battle with other tribes, they will flee south to the border of Sui State. For example, the stretching mountains and forests outside the pass they guarded are scattered and hidden by many Xi people.

Originally, when Luo Cheng was bent on going out to investigate in person, he couldn't stand the stalking of the young general, so he took him out for a walk. According to his initial guess, these dead Xi people should have encountered some original enemies in this forest, or robbed each other, so there was a vendetta.

But now that he heard Zhang Ergou's report, Hua immediately became alert. A small settlement of eighteen people, that could be a big family. And this family not only has a sword and a bow, but also armor, which shows that their previous honor was at least a Xi country warrior, or a very elite warrior, otherwise he would not have a set of chain mail, and he might even be a petty officer.

But it was this group of Xi people who were quite strong in the dense forest that killed them all in their sleep. What's even more bizarre is that after these people killed them, they didn't take the weapon and armor that opened the way. If you kill people but don't take things, it can't be a murder caused by plunder, and the killing method is so neat and neat, then the person must be very powerful.

Luo Wu looked back at the group of men and horses behind him, three hundred Hebei cavalry, these were all elite veterans. But he didn't dare to say that he could kill these people so quietly by picking some people among them. An extremely uneasy feeling came over him, and even years of border work made him feel that he had been targeted by something.

"Major General, I'm afraid this time the matter is not simple. My subordinates feel that we can't go any further, and that we should return to Kannai immediately. Luo Wushen said nervously.

The uncomfortable feeling in Luo Cheng's heart at this time is also getting stronger and stronger, this is the intuition of many years of martial arts training. At this time, when I saw the serious expression of the old general, my heart was even more sudden: "Uncle Wu, do you know what happened ahead?" "It's not clear yet, but I can already guess some." Luo Wu said with a calm face: "Judging from the deaths of these Xi people, these people did not die from each other's plunder, but are very likely to die at the hands of an elite army scout. And judging by the fact that they kill people but do not take away food, property, and weapons, then it is unlikely that this scout is the soldiers and horses of the leader of any tribe. The people of Xi have always lacked iron weapons, and with these excellent weapons and armor, it is impossible for them not to take them away. It is only possible that a strong army of scouts will come, and it is very likely that their army will be behind, and only then can the performance of these scouts be over. ”

Luo Cheng was taken aback by Luo Wu's analysis, "Uncle Wu, don't scare me, this Xi country used to be a subordinate tribe of the Turks. But now that it has established itself as a country, not to mention the news we have received, now that Xi Guozheng is fighting with the Turkic tribe to the death, how can there be a large army coming? Could you be mistaken? "I hope I'm wrong, too." Luo Wu sighed, "Major General, no matter what, this place is already very dangerous, we must go back immediately." If those people find out, maybe it will be difficult for us 300 people to go back. ”

A gust of cold wind whipped through the forest, and Luo Cheng's trick shook behind his back, as if he had life.

"Not quite right." Luo Wu muttered.

"Yes?"

"Don't you feel it?" Luo Wu asked, "Listen carefully to the voices in the shadows." ”

Luo Wei also felt it, he had never been so frightened since he was so old at the border chief. What's going on?

"The wind, the rustling of leaves, and the howling of wolves." Luo Cheng turned over and dismounted gracefully.

Draw your sword. This is a good sword specially made by craftsmen, not a horizontal sword of the military standard. The handle is inlaid with jewels, and the shining steel sword is reflected.