PS: How could God be so ruthless?

Volume II, Chapter 47

When the Xia army launched the ninth group charge, the last thousand-man team of the Jin army's rearguard disintegrated.

Fu Hongzhi and Kuai En had already retreated into this phalanx, and at this time, together with the exhausted and hungry officers and soldiers, they were surrounded by shouts of killing. If there were enough bows, food, and strength, if there were a number of supporters, they would form a circle to hold on, but by this time, their quivers would have been emptied; Dry food was still available, but the Huns' wheel warfare left them with no leisure at all; As for the reinforcements, assuming that Liu Yizhen did not flee but turned around to save him, then he could only sigh across the boundless Hun army like a great desert. What's more, anyone can think that this hairy boy has been scared silly, and it would be nice to think of running wildly. The remnants of this bloody lone army could only fight to the east, just to rush out even one brother.

But the Huns obviously demanded a war of annihilation at all costs, and countless swords, lances and arrows were killed from all sides, wiping out human lives piece by piece. Xu Zhihao has already killed a bloody man, and then looking at Fu Hongzhi and Kuai En not far away, they can no longer see their faces, and can only be identified by their figures. When only two or three hundred men remained, the Huns besieging them suddenly retreated.

The suffocating cries were replaced by suffocating dead silence.

The remnants of the Jin army sat down or lay down one after another, like clay sculptures returning to the mud.

Fu Hongzhi took the water bladder handed over by Xu Zhihao and poured a few sips, and passed it to Kuaien. glanced at Xu Zhihao's movements, and smiled tiredly:

"It looks like your kid has stock, and he can fight for a while."

Xu Zhihao shook the iron mallet in his hand. Show that you still have the strength. Fu Hongzhi sighed:

"The more the official is in charge, the bigger the strength, the smaller the strength. I think when I was at your level, I could fight better than you!"

A few veterans on the side said that the general should not be humble. You're also very good at playing right now. After Fu Hongzhi was a little proud, he quickly gloomed:

"When you are a general, it's your turn to fight in person, it's not a glorious thing!"

Everyone looked at the corpses of the enemy and me all over the ground in front of them, thinking about the thousands of comrades who were still alive in the morning, most of them have become ghosts now, and the rest of these people are afraid that they will not be able to run out, so naturally they are all silent. Fu Hongzhi lowered his head and groaned for a while, pointing to the Hun soldiers who were one hundred and ten steps away and did not fight:

"I expected them to come and persuade them to surrender. Xu Zhihao. Can you sing? If you can, if you can, give them a demonstration first! ”

Xu Zhihao said that in addition to playing iron jingling, I sing like a wild horse in any tune.

The brethren chuckled lowly.

Fu Hongzhi said that he is not afraid of going out of tune, as long as the meaning is good.

Xu Zhihao lowered his head and thought about it, and suddenly remembered the wine order he had made with a few brothers on the way to Guanzhong, and later the vegetable worm sang it in a Jiangnan minor key before he died. He picked it up in his heart for a while, picked up all the lyrics, and sang it silently in his heart first. Then he roared at the top of his voice, but instead of using Jiangnan Minor, he learned the sound of Guanzhong Qin from his father, and temporarily changed the "Xianbei" in the original word to "Xiongnu":

"The army went on the Northern Expedition.

The soldiers will fight,

The wife stays at home,

Look at the fence.

How can one person have a baby?????

the Huns! ”

Fu Hongzhi was stunned at first, but he didn't expect Xu Zhihao, who was a piece of pig iron, to be so "talented". Then he burst out laughing, and his spirits lifted:

"Good, good. Good song! Good song! You do it again. Brothers, learn along and sing together! ”

Xu Zhihao sang it for the second time, and everyone sang along, including Fu Hongzhi and Kuaien, but it didn't matter about the tune, it was very uplifting to shout those few words. Among the Huns, who knew Chinese, listened, and although they were greeted by their mothers, they couldn't help laughing. For a moment, people had the illusion that this was not a battlefield, but a gathering of herders and farmers.

The brief cheerfulness was interrupted by the Hun envoys.

The person who came was a very high-ranking official, and he was a deputy general next to Wang Maide:

"General Fu Hongzhi of the Jin Army, General Kuaien, and General Maide, King of Great Xia, greet you. General Wang has heard the names of the two generals for a long time, and he has always had the heart to seek advice in person, but it is a pity that each is his master, and it is rare to meet. In this fight, General Wang respected and admired the two generals even more. Today, according to the will of His Majesty the Emperor of Great Xia: If the two generals can understand the current affairs and return to Great Xia, His Majesty will be entrusted with important tasks, awarded the lord, and sealed with fertile soil, and the officers and soldiers of the department will be rewarded. General Wang advised the two of them not to resist uselessly, otherwise they would be defeated and die, leaving a laughing stock in vain, not the big husband's doing! ”

Fu Hongzhi sat on the ground and listened, and patted Kuang's knee:

"Lao Kuai, did you hear it, it's very tempting to make a wish for an official, or you will be a big official of the Huns!"

Cunn spat on the ground:

"If you want to go, Lao Tzu is not rare! The ancestors of our Kuai family are not even afraid of the Dading cooking punishment of Han Gaozu, and they are still afraid of losing their heads? ”

Fu Hongzhi said that you are still serious, help me up!

Several men helped him up. He walked forward to the place where the Hun envoy was five or six paces away, clasped his arms, and looked up at the arrogant face:

"You go back and sue Wang Maide, he can change his name to Wang Maide, that is, he has sold his ancestors and still has a stinky virtue to live! As a Qiang person, he surrendered to the Huns back then, and now he also pulls us into the water, don't think! There are decapitated generals in the Beifu soldiers, and there are no surrendered generals, and the remaining soldiers will never be disarmed! Alright, let's go back to life! ”

The envoy's face changed greatly, he snorted, and turned to walk away. Fu Hongzhi was puzzled, and he had to maintain the demeanor of a general, so he couldn't hurt the envoy, so he searched everywhere, and finally picked up a Hun head, slammed it into the back of the military envoy, and hit him in the back. The man was startled, and when he looked back and saw that it was a blow to the head, he was angry and funny, and he was afraid that the other party would throw another lance, so he quickly whipped the horse and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Fu Hongzhi walked back and waved his hands at everyone:

"Okay, people have been scolded by me, but if anyone really wants to surrender, I won't stop them. Really, no way! You are all good, and you have done your duty. dragged you to this place of death, my Fu Hongzhi is at fault, and Yizhen is at fault with history. Even Song Gong is also wrong. Throw yourself all who want to live. This gives me peace of mind!"

After speaking, he turned to one side and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of please.

Hundreds of people were silent. Fu Hongzhi led the troops. has always been an ordinary giggling and big grin, as soon as he went to the battlefield to enforce the law like iron, he never allowed deserters, but today he actually took the initiative to let his subordinates surrender, which is really an unprecedented move. But since even Liu Yu reprimanded him, it can be seen that he is talking from his heart.

No one took a step.

Those who survived a day of fierce battles were all veterans of a hundred battles. It's not that they can't surrender, but that means that the honor and medal of honor that they have saved with their heads in the first half of their lives will be wasted in an instant. This means living alone in the Hu people's pile. Look at the face of the Hu people, be angry with the Hu people, and kill the Han people for the Hu people. It is because their fathers and ancestors have been abused by too many Hu people that they will join the Beifu soldiers and fight back angrily. They can also do things obediently under the Hu people, and they can also get a petty official to do if they are mixed. But what about Jiangdong's relatives? They are no longer martyrs, children are disgraced, and they are little friends

Shameful laughter; The old man was heartbroken and couldn't enter the martyr's camp. I don't know how many lifetimes it will take. People will forget about their betrayal!

The low Hun horn sounded, and the surrounding Huns were in the whole team. Fu Hongzhi called Xu Zhihao:

"As a general, I was wiped out. is already dead, even if he returns to Jiangdong alive. I didn't see the families of these brothers. You are still young, try to lead the brothers to break through. Don't mess with me! ”

After speaking, he glanced at Kuang:

"Brother, what do you say!"

Kuo N smiled bitterly:

"The task given to me by Song Gong is to bring Yizhen back, and now Yizhen doesn't know how to survive, and I can't find him, so I go back like this, and I don't have the face to see Song Gong, I will live and die with you, brother!"

Xu Zhihao understood that the two generals no longer had the heart to live, and was about to say that I will die with you, Fu Hongzhi stretched out his hands and pressed his shoulders:

"Good brother, be obedient, if you can bring back a seed of Beifu soldiers, your merits are immeasurable, don't want to die. All of you must listen to Xu Zhihao's command, and break through to the east, and you must not fall into battle with me and General Kuai, and those who violate the order will be killed! ”

After speaking, he nodded to Kuang, raised his lance and raised it into the air, and shouted at the Huns:

"I am Fu Hongzhi, the general of Ningshuo of the Great Jin Dynasty, my head is worth ten thousand households, and I will pick it if there is a seed!"

With a bang, the battle went straight forward.

Kuang En shot the last arrow at the Hun army formation, threw away his bow, drew his long sword, and rushed forward after Fu Hongzhi.

The Huns immediately screamed and gathered around them.

Xu Zhihao burst into tears, and his heart was full of one voice: Keep up, keep up, keep up! Kill the enemy with them, kill the enemy, kill the enemy, kill the enemy!

Where there is a voice between heaven and earth, who dares to say that he Xu Zhihao is greedy for life and afraid of death and abandons his superiors? But what he can do at the moment is to make Fu Hongzhi, who is certain to die, feel at ease. He glanced at the people around him, and the brothers were all gritting their teeth and tears on their faces. He raised his gavel and shouted:

"All of them, break through with me, kill!"

Two or three hundred men, dead and alive, formed a small wedge-shaped formation, jumping, galloping, screaming, chopping, colliding, tumbling, struggling eastward in the rolling tide of the enemy, like a boat that refuses to sink in the turbid waves.

Trumpet Beifu,

Takeo Takeo.

Northern Expedition Long Drive,

Jian removes the strong beard.

Say goodbye to your father and mother,

Come to this faraway land.

The great cause is accomplished,

The center is overturned.

As soon as Guanzhong goes,

Alone hesitating.

The general's broken sword,

A strong man is in an arc.

Thoughts of Jiangdong,

Thorns are hard to stop.

Broken heads,

I vow not to look back.

Rather for the ghost male,

Don't be a captive.

Blood flies like flowers,

Drive my way!

The Huns had already won the victory of encircling and annihilating the Jin army, and many people were burdened with abandoned property by the Jin army, and they were unwilling to die under a small group of outlaws when they shared the fruits of the victory, and they avoided everything they could. Although Xu Zhihao's small formation of two or three hundred people continued to shrink, the enemy's resistance became thinner and thinner, and finally he rushed out of the Hun brigade with seventy or eighty brothers.

After walking about thirty miles to the east, he gradually approached the remains of another battlefield.

On the side of the road, there were dead people everywhere. There was the Jin army and the Xia army. There are dead horses everywhere. There were overturned cars everywhere. The brethren were hungry and thirsty, and they searched for kettles of dry food on the dead, and finally barely filled their stomachs. Their weapons are dull and lacking, and they can be replaced at this moment. Xu Zhihao looked ahead. If you raise your own money, you may also encounter Xia Bing, who instructed the brothers to save from the weapons they have at their disposal. Find a mace for everyone.

It was already dark, and they walked forward for a while along the road paved with corpses. Suddenly, I heard the sound of horses' hooves ahead. They hurried down on the road.

There were about thirty Huns who came, followed by a long line of carriages. With the torches in their hands, Xu Zhihao gradually saw clearly what these people were doing.

Collect anything of value on the corpses of the Jin army, then strip off the armor and clothing, and cut off the head. It is necessary not only to take the head to repay the merits, but also to make a little floating wealth.

They are getting closer.

If you continue to pretend to be dead, you can only be cut off alive.

A brother next to him quietly asked Xu Zhihao whether he wanted to run or fight. Xu Zhihao had already noticed that the Huns were carrying bows and arrows on their backs and leading horses, if they wanted to run. Neither an arrow nor a horse; If you want to fight, you can only get close and hit him by surprise. Although he has more people than the other party, he is also more tired than the other party, so he must strike quickly and ruthlessly, and eat this handful of enemies with the least amount of effort.

And the word went on quietly, and the brethren who were of great strength came to him, and the rest of them passed the mace. Suddenly. Around him were five strong men and forty or so sticks. They weren't as heavy as his hammer and were a little light to hold, but it felt just right now. He gestured. He explained the tactics to the brothers around him and told the other brothers to prepare themselves and wait for his instructions.

He fell to the ground, clutching a mace in his hand. Eyes were glued to the group of Huns.

Fifty steps.

They cut people's heads very skillfully, as if they were cutting sheep grass.

Forty steps.

They laughed as they cut, as if it was not a bloody and ominous thing to remove the head from a member of the same kind. It's a pleasant kind of work.

Thirty steps.

They threw their heads into the wagon, and each falling sound announced that a soul had lost its whole shell.

Twenty steps.

The wheels of the carriage ran over a headless corpse. It's like running over dead wood, not sparing that this is a creature that was once alive and kicking.

Ten steps!

Xu Zhihao shouted and jumped up. Throw the first mace over, followed by the second, third, and fourth. The brothers around him did the same, and instantly swept a strong wind of sticks towards the Huns.

At this distance, the flying mace touches the human body, like throwing eggs into the body, and it is also like a wind destroying a flower. By the time the Jin soldiers rushed forward with swords and lances, only five or six of them could barely resist, and the rest only had the strength to groan.

This small group of enemies was solved, but Xu Zhihao expected that there must be a large group of Huns ahead, so he asked some of the brothers to change into Hun clothes and ride on their horses, while the rest of the people who had no clothes to change into hid in the armor pile on the carriage.

They lowered their Hun fur hats, went forward with a cart of armor and human heads, and sure enough, they saw the Huns cleaning up the battlefield. They held their hearts beat and forced their composure through the tumultuous crowd. No one questioned them, because everyone was looking for something of value. They kept walking, and gradually walked out of the battlefield, and there was no body's body in sight.

Xu Zhihao understood: The rearguard infantry was all gone, and the cavalry around Liu Yizhen should not have run away.

What about Liu Yizhen himself?

In such a tragic battle situation, so many veterans who can fight have been broken, not to mention that he is a hairy boy who is powerless!

But maybe Song Gong's child, God will have some mercy.

Determined that the shouting would not be heard by the Huns at this time, he ordered the soldiers who could speak Beijing to shout Liu Yizhen's name all the way. shouted and walked, and when he reached the edge of a forest, Liu Yizhen came out of it.

Xu Zhihao is no longer the young son of Song Gong who was still luxurious a day ago, but a beggar child. His hair was scattered, his face was covered in dirt, and there were rows of blood, apparently cut by grass or branches. He wore an ordinary soldier's battle robe, which was not only wide, but also wisps, and could not fit the rest of the robe. Maybe it's because the palpitations haven't disappeared, maybe it's because of hunger and cold, and he's been shaking. When he saw that it was Xu Zhihao, tears flowed down:

"Thank God, Lord Xu, I thought I would never see a Han man again!"

Xu Zhihao hurriedly dismounted, took off his cloak and wrapped it around Liu Yizhen, and then knelt down to salute him:

"The last general, Xu Zhihao, meets Lord Assassin!"

Liu Yizhen's mouth was deflated and he cried:

"I don't listen to General Fu's advice, I am tired of the three armies, how can I still have the face to be this assassin! Is General Fu with you? ”

Xu Zhihao lowered his head:

"A history of assassination. If General Fu and General Kuai hadn't died in battle at this time, they would have been captured. ”

Liu Yizhen fell to his knees with a thud:

"Then have you seen General Mao?"

Xu Zhihao shook his head.

Liu Yizhen smashed his chest and cried:

"I'm damned. I should be late, I killed so many veterans. Kill tens of thousands of soldiers, I deserve to die! ”

Xu Zhihao wanted to comfort Liu Yizhen, but the strong sense of disgust in his heart stopped him. For the stupid and stubborn decisions of this gentleman, the Beifu soldiers lost so much essence that he wanted to smash this person's head with a mace. Cry and cry, you can't cry anyway!

Unexpectedly, Liu Yizhen suddenly jumped up and reached out to draw a sword from under the waist of a soldier. The soldier was startled and hurriedly retreated, while several people went up and hugged Liu Yizhen. The latter forcibly earned. Arched his hand at Xu Zhihao:

"Lord Xu, I don't have the face to go back to see Song Gong, and I don't have the face to see the family of the fallen soldiers, you cut off my head and take it back to apologize to them!"

After saying that, he stretched his neck, closed his eyes, and tears poured out.

At this moment, Xu Zhihao saw Liu Yu's shadow from this child.

He picked Liu Yizhen on the horse and wiped away his tears with the corner of his cloak:

"It's all over, let's go home!"

Just as he was about to beckon everyone to continue east. was caught by Liu Yizhen:

"Lord Xu, you can't go forward, you have to find another way, the Huns have already set up a pocket formation in front."

Xu Zhihao was taken aback.

Liu Yizhen said that when the Hun cavalry came over. There were hussars fighting to the death, telling him to run quickly. He rode his horse for a while and was thrown off his horse. Fell into a ditch on the side of the road and couldn't move. The edge of the ditch was covered with withered grass, and he lay down for a while. Just as they were about to get up, the two armies of Jin and Xia had already hit this area. He hid in the grass and did not dare to move. He didn't dare to look out until the sound of fighting stopped, and he saw that it was a mountain of corpses and a river of blood. Fortunately, this is the final battle of the day. After a while, a large group of Hun cavalry drove by, and he curled up in the ditch and did not dare to come out. Several Huns stood on the side of the road and urinated, almost on his head, but he resisted his fear and remained motionless.

He knew that the army he brought out from Chang'an was completely finished at this time, and he didn't understand why the Huns continued to go east. As night fell, he got out of the grass and walked eastward, and finally figured it out:

The Huns probably expected Zhu Lingshi's Chang'an defenders to withdraw from here, so they went to the front to ambush.

Xu Zhihao sighed. He thought he had escaped from the tiger's mouth, but he didn't know that it was just a game of rats played by the Hun cat. And Zhu Lingshi had no last resort, and in the end he couldn't get rid of the fate of being surrounded and annihilated.

But looking at Liu Yizhen's face and the scarred bodies of the brothers around him, a stubbornness rose up:

It's just early and late, what's so terrible? It's a big deal!

Since it was no longer possible to go any further, he told the brothers to go into the woods to rest, one in the west and the other in the east, and watched to see if any Huns had touched them. He himself took Liu Yizhen and a lieutenant beside him to rest behind the grave in the woods. The lieutenant suffered internal injuries and fell asleep and never woke up. Xu Zhihao relaxed after the fierce battle, and suddenly became extremely tired, and fell asleep, having nightmares one after another, never dreaming of reuniting with Guo Xu.

Guo Xu was happy and worried. Fortunately, Xu Zhihao is still there, and Liu Yizhen is not dead. What worries me is that there are still heavy Hun troops in front. At this point, it was immediately understood why he was able to break through the camp of the Huns, and why the Huns had not come to pursue until now. Because the Huns in the big battalion understood that this small army could not break through the blockade line in front, and the task of the big battalion was actually to wait to block the Jin infantry that came next. That is to say, not only were they trapped by the front and back attacks, but Zhu Lingshi and Chen Song had almost no hope of getting out all the way. They may be able to walk to Qingniyi at night, but the two large battalions of the Huns are by no means a few thousand infantry can break through.

He couldn't let his men see that he was desperate.

After listening to Xu Zhihao and Liu Yizhen's talk about the enemy's situation, he handed Liu Yizhen over to Xiao Qiao to take care of, commanded all the brothers to retreat into the woods to rest, wrapped the horses, extinguished all the lights, and then drew out a hundred elite archers, asking them to keep an eye on the road, once there are Hun scouts and heralds, be sure to shoot and kill, not a single one is left.

He was going to cut off the communication between the Hun camp and the ambush soldiers.

He sat in a saddle and pondered what to do.

After being a soldier for so long, it was the first time that I was thinking about how to get out of a desperate situation. In the past, he just slept, ate, fought, arranged troops, and made suggestions, which were all the business of the commanders.

Today he is the biggest commander.

If he can't find a way out, it will not only be the brothers of the Flying Cavalry who will lose to this battlefield, but also his and Chen Song's families.

No! He didn't believe that God would be so ruthless.

My stomach growled, and I reached for the bag of dry food, which was empty. Just as he was about to ask the brothers for a little, his hand touched the small cloth bag in his arms.

Don't be hungry!

took out one of them, swallowed them according to Chen Song's explanation, and saved a few mouthfuls of water.

Then close your eyes and wait for the hunger pangs to pass.

Dumbfounded:

How can there be such an immediate panacea in the world!

A thought crossed my mind.

It seems that the doorway is in this word. He stood up, circled around an old pine tree, and suddenly straightened out his thoughts, and then there was a burst of ecstasy:

I, a blacksmith who doesn't know anything about it, can have such a wonderful idea! (To be continued......)