Chapter 5: The Nameless (7b)
Volume 7 Getaway Chapter 5 Nameless (Seven B)
"What?!" Luo Yi stood up suddenly, grabbed the placket of the elder Shi Qinyong's clothes and asked. He is a burly man with a very strong brawl. At this moment, although he was using one hand, he also lifted Qin Yong from the ground. Qin Yongdeng, who was strangled by the collar, had a black face, and his arms waved helplessly in mid-air. It wasn't until several colleagues stepped forward to grab Luo Yi's arm that he took a breath and burst into tears, "Step, Captain Bu committed suicide!" ”
"Infantry captain, you mean infantry?" Luo Yi let go of his hand weakly, took half a step back, and fell back to his seat again.
"It's General Infantry, General Zhuangwu's infantry!" Elder Shi Qinyong wiped his face and muttered in response.
"Are you sure? It's him? Luo Yi was still unwilling, waiting for a little to ask.
No one answered his words, and there was a desperate silence all around. In the midst of the silent sorrow, the back of the Tiger General Luo Yi quickly hunched down. After a while, he smiled bitterly and raised his hand, "Don't stand still, let's go, come with me to see off General Bu." ”
The generals nodded lightly and slowly walked out of the Shuai Mansion behind Luo Yi. The weather is already starting to get warmer, and a few early spring apricot blossoms poke their heads out of the corner of the wall, and they are bright as fire when they are illuminated by the light. When the wind blew, there were immediately snowflake-like petals falling and wrapping around the human body and on the sleeves of the clothes, refusing to disperse for a long time.
The vicinity of the school grounds was already full of people. The soldiers who rushed to hear the news surrounded the temporary quarters of the infantry. None of them believed that General Bu, who had always been known for his bravery, had committed suicide. General Bu is upright and brave, and always rushes to the front of the team when fighting. Such a person who is not even afraid of death, why would he use suicide to escape reality? .
Seeing Luo Yi coming, the brothers silently made way of a passage and watched their own commander enter General Bu's residence. If there is anyone with higher prestige than General Bu in the hearts of the brothers of the Tiger Army, it is only the coach Luo Yi. In everyone's impression, General Luo was more upright and brave than the current General Bu back then, and he would rather bend than bend.
But two people who are also very upright may not be compatible. Qin Yong and the others who followed behind Luo Yi knew that it had not been a day or two since General Zhuangwu's infantry had been snubbed by the commander. These days, everyone is paying attention to the side of the barracks, consciously or unconsciously, so as not to make any desperate things because the strong-tempered General Bu has been reprimanded by his own commander repeatedly. But no one expected that he would use this most drastic way to protest against the stubbornness of the coach.
As a traditional military man, suicide is a very cowardly act. It is the so-called civil death admonition, martial death war. A true warrior does not have to defend his right to tell the truth with his life because he was snubbed or rejected, as a strategist did. Their destination should be on the battlefield, even if they are suspicious, even if they have unbearable grievances in their hearts, they should rush to the enemy army single-handedly, fight vigorously, and fall down with a bang, instead of silently wiping their necks like now!
But none of the generals in the Tiger Army dared to look down on the choice of infantry. Even an arrogant young man like Cao Yuanrang, although he usually disdains the pedantry of veterans, his eyes are full of awe when he faces the corpse that fell peacefully.
Perhaps out of nostalgia for more than 20 years of military career, before leaving, the fierce infantry once carefully wiped his armor. From shoulder pads to shin guards, almost every nail leaf is spotlessly polished. All armor components, as well as helmets and covers, are placed in a low corner, upright and within reach. It seems that as long as he smells the drums of war, the owner of the armor can put on it at any time and go back to the battlefield.
However, the body that had fallen in front of the armor could no longer hear the drums. In his more than 20 years of military career, the foot general who has killed countless enemies gave him the same clean and neat sword. According to the red-eyed soldiers, they only heard a slight sound of metal falling to the ground, and when they rushed in, they saw the fallen body of their own general. It's not that everyone doesn't want to stop it, it's that General Bu didn't give anyone a chance to stop it at all!
"Did he say anything special before he went?" After listening to the cries of the soldiers on duty next to the corpses of the infantry, Luo Yichang, the general of Huben, sighed and asked unwillingly.
"No, no!" The team on duty snorted and choked up in response. "Usually, after inspecting the barracks, General Bu used to sit alone for a while and record what happened that day. We sharpened the ink for him and withdrew! Then, then ......"
He couldn't go on, and his heart was sad and terrified. Tiger Ben Iron Cavalry Military Regulations, if a general dies in battle, all his personal guards must die in battle. And General Bu ended his career as a horse in this way. What should you do for the guards? Do you want to die in battle together? But if you look around, where is the shadow of the enemy?
"Stand down. Don't go too far! Luo Yi sighed again and commanded in a low voice. He walked quickly to his confidant's bookcase, hoping to get some relief from the words he had left behind. only found that the other party only left a stack of clean cotton paper on the table, white as snow, with a few splashes of red.
Those few bits of red were like sparks, burning people's eyes. In an instant, almost everyone understood the thoughts of the infantry, except for the Tiger General Luo Yi himself.
If he chooses to die in battle, the infantry general's next battle will be against the Boling army. He will charge into the elite of Boling who are resisting the Turkic wolf cavalry from behind, assassinate dozens of people who defended the Great Wall for him with a long lance, and then chop them into shredded flesh with a knife in contempt.
That will not be what Captain Infantry wants! "There are gaps in the Great Wall, and the tiger is unparalleled", Luo Yi, the general of the Tiger Ben, officially attracted countless young people like infantry to his command with these eight words. As the governor of Youzhou, Luo Yi can throw his oath into the garbage heap, as a member of the iron cavalry, the infantry can't ride a horse and trample on himself from behind twenty years ago.
It's just that what effect can he have in doing this, in addition to defending his ideals? General Luo will not give up his ambition to dominate the world, and the other generals of the Tiger Horse will not forget the hatred of the Boling army for killing their son. The hatred caused by the struggle for the world has already sprouted in people's hearts, and they are frantically spreading out and covering people's hearts, mouths, and eyes. If you don't see the destruction of Li Zhongjian, reason will not return to those bodies.
After lingering by the body of the Ai General for a long time, the Tiger General Luo Yi instructed his subordinates to bury the Ai General at the foot of the Great Wall in Anle County with a military salute. There was a section of the Great Wall that was broken through by the Baoqiu water, and the infantry was buried there, just enough to fulfill his wish to defend the Great Wall for life and death.
With Luo Yi's permission, more than a dozen personal soldiers who were on duty in the infantry residence that night were discharged. As punishment for poor guards, they will stay next to the mausoleum of their own generals for the rest of their lives. In order to relieve the loneliness of the general who was buried here, the soldiers transplanted a lot of wild apricot trees around the mausoleum. As the weather warms, the apricot blossoms of the whole tree bloom one after another, fall one after another, and sprinkle on the tombstones, clean and spotless.
With the efforts of well-intentioned people, the turmoil caused by the whole thing was quickly dissipated into invisibility. Soon, the soldiers of Youzhou stopped talking about the cause of the infantry general's death and whether he had any unfulfilled wishes. Their attention was drawn to the flames of war that had burned to their doorstep, and the daily chatter was filled with tension and excitement.
"Wang Xuba and Dou Cong slaughtered to the Yanghe River, defeated more than 2,000 warriors from the Xinghe Department who went south in advance, and plundered more than 13,000 cattle!" In addition to the excitement, there was a hint of envy in the speaker's tone. In previous years, these disciplinary actions that could not only gain fame but also bring huge profits were completed by the Tiger Horseman. Five hundred iron horsemen and the spring breeze can make the grasslands within a radius of hundreds of miles tremble under the hooves of horses.
But this year, they only have to watch the excitement. And always pray for the victory of the former enemy, and beat the Central Plains soldiers who swept out of the fortress and fled in disarray. This feeling of castling between friend and foe is so absurd that many people want to hide in a secluded place and laugh out loud. But thinking about the temper of General Roben Luo Yi, who has become more and more irritable since General Bu's death, everyone still chose to endure it silently.
In the spring of February, similar news came from another familiar location. This time, Boling Jingjia met a group of 30,000 people on the willow slope sixty miles north of Wanquanwei. With the support of Shibi Khan, this group of Murowei people from the depths of the steppe walked for a month and a half before they saw the Great Wall. Before they could let out the cheers, they were cut off by two outflanked Central Plains cavalry.
"The soldier surnamed Li just doesn't follow the rules!" In order not to overboost the morale of others, the generals of Youzhou examined the behavior of the "enemy" with a critical eye. They were surprised to find that both the Boling cavalry and the Hedong cavalry had adopted tactics that were very different from those of the Tiger Ben Iron Cavalry. They pursued speed excessively and almost abandoned the defense of war horses. For riders on horseback, the weight of the armor was also repeatedly streamlined. The soldiers were not heavily armoured, and even the officers were not heavily armoured. They struck like the wind, slashing at their unsuspecting opponents like the wind, and then quickly fleeing like the wind before reinforcements from nearby tribes arrived.
This wind, with the smell of blood, made the tribes who rushed to the Central Plains to "fight the grass valley" tremble. The Khan of Shibi came from the country this time, so he had to prepare hundreds of thousands of troops of grain and grass, baggage, and siege equipment that were scarce on the steppe. It is impossible for such a large team to go too fast. However, the tribes only agreed on a general gathering area in advance, and there were no detailed regulations on how to take care of each other. Once the opponent counterattacks in advance, there is no time to find a suitable response plan in a hurry.
"The man surnamed Li is a madman, and only a madman would come up with such an idea of fighting quickly!" Looking at the piled up of military newspapers, General Liu Yifang, who was stationed at Juyong Pass, commented with a wry smile. If this continues, he will have to move out in advance and cause some trouble behind the flank of the Boling army. Otherwise, I am afraid that before the army of the beginning "climbs" to the foot of the Great Wall, most of the tribes who came to help will have to retreat in spite of the difficulties.
But how to effectively contain the Boling army and the Hedong army, and not cause the opponent to lose too much, which in turn affects the effect of their desperate efforts with the Turkic wolf cavalry? Liu Yifang, who had a murderous feud with Li Xu, thought distressedly. From his point of view, it is not ideal for the Youzhou soldiers to shoot too lightly and too heavily. Too light may not be able to force Li Xu to withdraw all the soldiers sent to raid outside the Saiwai, too heavy, and it may cause the other party to fight back before the wolf rider arrives, which will deplete Youzhou's vitality.
Just when he was so worried that he couldn't eat and couldn't sleep with hatred, his henchman who came from Jixian County told him a very strange news. "Luo Dashuai found out! Two days before General Bu committed suicide, he sent a cronie to Zhuo County to find Li Thief! ”
"When? What useful military information did he send to Li Thief? Liu Yifang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then asked hesitantly. What a cronie can bring to Li Xu, no matter how important it is, the effect is very limited. On the Youzhou side, before the infantry was transferred back to Jixian County, Luo Dashuai had explained to everyone that many core secrets were not allowed to be known to him.
"Like, it doesn't seem to have any military intelligence. Just a gift. The man finished delivering the gift himself, and hurried back. Luo Dashuai has ordered someone to take him down, and he has been interrogating him for the past few days, but so far there has been no result! "The henchman was clever enough to listen to all the relevant details very clearly.
"What gift?" Liu Yifang was even more puzzled, forgetting the important things he was pondering for the time being, and couldn't wait to ask.
"It seems to be a long lance, the one that General Bu has been using. According to General Bu's cronies, when General Bu first saw the man surnamed Li, he knew that the other party had taken a fancy to his long lance. At that time, General Bu was reluctant to give, and later the official surnamed Li rose to the top, and it was inconvenient for him to give it. The henchman smiled and commented very disdainfully. Isn't it just a lance, the most expensive thing is only a few dozen dollars, and the rich surnamed Li is comparable to the country, and he doesn't let go of this little money! ”
Everything about Li Xu must not be said well. This is the trick summed up by all the cronies around Liu Yifang. But this time, his sycophants were clearly not photographed in the right place. After saying it for a long time, I didn't hear the expected appreciation. The henchman raised his head in surprise and saw his general's eyes looking at the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains outside Juyong Pass, and his arm was obviously twitching.
The spring breeze has turned the mountains that look cold in winter into a verdant patch, and faintly, the sound of running water sings among the clouds.
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