Chapter 8 Over the Mountain
It's a mistake at the beginning, and then it's wrong. and lying to the same end, as long as there is one wrong thing, many wrong things will be done to make up for it. At this time, in the face of the scattered rout of the Tang army and the enemy's charge, Xue Chongxun was already powerless...... A few days ago, he planned to capture the city of Stone Castle and defend himself, but it was unsuccessful; changed his plan to return home from the mountainous curve in the south, but his mother met a group of snake-trickling Tuyuhun people, and he was really wronged.
Seeing that they couldn't resist it, everyone scattered in a hurry and fled in all directions. Xue Chongxun had no choice but to turn around and run, and two people followed him, a brigade commander, and the veteran who had chatted with him before.
The fire flickered behind him, the sound of the strings was mixed with screams, and it was pitch black in front of him, Xue Chongxun ran wildly regardless of it, extremely nervous.
"Whew...... ...... "His mouth was wide open, and his chest seemed to be suddenly emptied, as if he could no longer breathe. An uncomfortable feeling of suffocation suddenly hit his heart, and he panicked, shortness of breath, and dizziness. When he looked back, he saw an enemy general pointing to this side and shouting something, he couldn't understand Xianbei's language, but a group of horses with torches were chasing after him...... Do you recognize Lao Tzu as a leader?
He fell, and hurried up despite the pain, and when he looked up, it was pitch black in the east, and it must have been a hillside blocking the moonlight. Without thinking much about it, he hurried up the hillside to the east...... In this way, at least you don't have to compare the speed with a four-legged horse.
There was a bellows-like sound behind him, and the veteran who followed Xue Chongxun was old, and his body was really not as good as that of a young man, and he was already tired and out of breath. Xue Chongxun turned around and grabbed his collar and gave him more strength.
At this moment, the veteran suddenly said, "King Jun, you can save some effort......
"Why?"
"I've been hit by an arrow." The veteran spat out a mouthful of blood, "I'm not afraid of death, but it's a fucking Qu to die in this foreign country......."
Xue Chongxun let go of him, and climbed up with his hands and feet, his feet were wearing shoes, but his hands couldn't stand it, his fingertips had long been worn out, and his heart hurt. After climbing like this for an unknown amount of time, his vision suddenly broadened, and it turned out that he had climbed to the top of the mountain. Because he was uphill from the west, and after climbing to the top of the mountain, he was facing the east, and he saw the lower moon in the east at first sight.
A bright moon between heaven and earth is extraordinarily spectacular.
The shouting behind him was getting closer and closer, and he and the brigade commander continued to run eastward, and the brigade commander ran in front and suddenly shouted: "Damn, it's a cliff!" ”
Xue Chongxun's brain suddenly "buzzed", he had encountered so many things in the past few days, he couldn't care about being afraid, but he was very unwilling.
Running to the edge of the cliff, he craned his neck to look down, and below him was a small river, perhaps a tributary of the Sun Moon Creek. The river is narrow, I don't know the depth, and I don't know if I will be killed...... If the water is shallow, it will be smashed into a meatloaf! At this time, the group of pursuers also climbed up the mountain, and when they saw Xue Chongxun stopped on the edge of the cliff, they immediately bent down and gasped urgently.
…… The moonlight shines on the sparkling river, and the water surface is glowing with beautiful streamers, jewels, just like the bustling lights of Chang'an. Xue Chongxun couldn't help but sigh.
"Get down on your knees and beg for mercy!" The enemy shouted triumphantly in Chinese, and it was a pleasure to bring the former conqueror to his knees.
Beg? Of course, Xue Chongxun will not beg for mercy, and if it is useful, he can consider it...... These Tuyuhun people must be asking for merit from the Tubo master, and they killed the Tubo Lang nobles, can they forgive it lightly?
Xue Chongxun replied: "Slave of the dead country!" ”
This sentence immediately made the enemy angry, "Die! With a string sound, the arrows burst through the air.
"Whoosh", but he didn't shoot, maybe the thing was too ashamed. But Xue Chongxun reflexively took a step back because of this, stepped into the air, "Ah......" His arms grabbed in the air, but he didn't catch anything, and fell on his back.
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He didn't die. Of course, I didn't find any martial arts cheats under the cliff, so I compared it to the blessed land of cattle because of misfortune. At dawn, he found only one body by the river. It was the brigade commander who fled with him, covered in arrows, and made like a hedgehog. The brigade commander must not have jumped off the cliff decisively last night, so he made it look like this...... It takes a lot of courage to jump from that high.
The surroundings are very quiet, the sun rises in the east, and the earth is bright. Xue Chongxun was worried that there were enemy soldiers searching on the riverbank, so his first plan was to leave this place as soon as possible and hide in the forest.
He touched his waist, and there was only an empty scabbard hanging from it, and he didn't know where he had lost it, and ran to the corpse of the brigade commander and searched for a while, but found no weapon, only a knife and two flints. He also has these things, and the "Seven Things" were very popular in the Tang Dynasty, that is, hanging some small tools around the waist, and most of them were just decorations for the nobles.
So he went into the woods with two sets of gadgets. Now he can't find the map, but he estimates that the east side of this mountainous area is Shanzhou or Langzhou, because he walked so long to the south a few days ago, and it should be Langzhou all the way to the east. In short, it is easy to do in the Tang Dynasty-controlled area, but the difficulty is that there is a mountain range in the east, which probably belongs to the extension of the Qilian Mountains.
In the past, the Tang army had garrisons on the territory of Tuyuhun, but in recent years, the government has been turbulent and dark, and the border defense line has been shrinking, and now the shadow of the Tang army is basically no longer found in the west of the mountain range.
Within two days, Xue Chongxun became like a wild man, which reminded him of Robinson Crusoe, surviving in the wilderness. Fortunately, there is no shortage of firewood, and there is no need to drill wood to make a fire when there is a flint, so you can survive at night.
At first, he made a bow and arrows out of twigs and vine bark to hunt for food, because his archery skills were quite passable. But it didn't work, the homemade rudimentary bow was not strong enough, there were no clusters of arrows, and the sharpened branches were not heavy enough to shoot any animal. He had to pick up some pine nuts to keep his hunger fed.
Later, it was found that there were shoals in Sun Moon Creek, and the river at this time was not polluted, and there were fish in it! And it was early summer, and the fish were not hard to find, so he made a wooden pole to insert the fish, which was more or less restored.
In fact, the most unbearable thing is loneliness, people are social animals, it is really uncomfortable to be alone, especially at night, Xue Chongxun, who is accustomed to the prosperity of the city, often feels afraid. The dark woods seem to hide some unknown horror...... He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but being in such an environment and being afraid of them was something that people really couldn't figure out.
After walking like this for more than ten days, I finally found the mountain range between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun. I saw that many of the mountains were white-roofed snow-capped mountains, and he was naturally not stupid enough to go over the snow-capped mountains, if it was so dry, he would freeze to death.
While Xue Chongxun was collecting food to prepare for climbing the mountain, he also surveyed the terrain along the mountain range, found a barely flat place, and passed from there. However, in some places, it looks relatively flat, and it is really difficult to walk, and this place of deciduous bushes has no road in the first place, so it is naturally rugged and difficult to walk.
A mountain that is clear at a glance does not seem to be far away, and when it is time to turn it, it took Xue Chongxun more than two days to climb a mountain. Such a big mountain is really going to give up, and it has turned over one after another. While he was boiling, he was thinking wildly, and said in his heart: No wonder most of the developed areas are in the plains, and the conditions in the mountains are really difficult.
When he came down from a mountain and saw the smoky village, he was inexplicably moved in his heart, and he almost burst into tears! Got to the territory of Datang, right? My motherland! Xue Chongxun has never been so patriotic, and for the first time, he feels that his country can give people a sense of belonging.
Now he is a little confused, just in case, he plans to take a look first, don't still be in Tuyuhun territory, and he will be caught in the net again after all the hard work. So he stayed at the foot of the mountain until the evening, and then sneaked into the village, picking out the windows where the lights were still on.
I heard a woman's voice inside: "Boss, my family's skins have been dried, and they should be sold in Dahua City." ”
Dahua? Xue Chongxun thought about it, Dahua is a county in Langzhou, and it seems that it has really arrived in Langzhou! And these people speak pure Chinese, what are they not Han people?
He listened for a while, and when he was sure, he knocked on the door, and a voice inside said, "Who is it?" ”
Xue Chongxun hurriedly said: "Open the door ......"
The man inside heard the voice of a stranger, and when he was vigilant, he looked out through the crack in the door, and as if he could not say anything else, he asked again who you are.
Xue Chongxun had no choice but to say: "I am a general of the Tang Dynasty, I was separated from others during the war, and I finally came back, you open the door and help me." He thought for a while, took off the goldfish bag on his body, shook it and said, "This thing can prove my identity, you can show it to the knowledgeable village elder, someone will definitely recognize it." ”
"Just you?"
Xue Chongxun nodded yes.
After a long time, the man opened the door, and saw Xue Chongxun's dirty appearance clearly, and he was stunned. Xue Chongxun groped around his waist for a while, took out a piece of peiyu and handed it to the man and said, "This thing is valuable, you get me a meal, and then find someone to send me to the official mansion, it is the reward." ”
The man took it a little sneeringly, looked left and right, "This stone is valuable?" ”
Stone? Xue Chongxun was dumbfounded, so he took back the piece of jade, untied the saber scabbard on his waist and handed it over: "Then you want this, you look at the decoration on it, it's gold, it's worth a lot of money when you pry it off, right?" ”
The man in Jin Zi recognized it, and after looking at it for a while, he turned around and shouted: "Da Lang, go to the village's hometown and say that we have something important here." ”
There is a way that gold and silver are valuable, but jade is priceless...... The jade he wears on the king of Hedong, what kind of stall can he not be able to sell? Xue Chongxun immediately felt sorry for this man.
After a while, an old man and three or five villagers came over with a lamp, and when they saw Xue Chongxun's appearance, they had to ask questions. Just now, the man handed the scabbard to the village elder again. The village elder said: "There is a guard tower nearby, if I am a Tang general, why don't you go to the army?" ”
Xue Chongxun couldn't help but say, "Can you give me a meal first?" ”M