11-22 Picking up a daughter

The army was divided into Weinan in the early morning, the tall city wall of Weinan has been torn down in pieces, the city bricks have been thrown to the ground, revealing the adobe inside, the arrow tower has long been reduced to ruins, and the scouts of the red-shirted army are vigilantly standing on a high place with clairballs and firecrackers and looking into the distance.

Before he approached the city, he could smell a scorching smell, a familiar smell of a battlefield full of dead and wounded, blood mixed with the strange smell of roasted human flesh, thick smoke rising from behind the city walls, flocks of crows hovering in the sky, except for the footsteps of the soldiers, the whole city was as silent as night, or like a dead city.

The city gate has collapsed, the original east gate of Weinan has become a small mound at this time, the soldiers climbed the mound, what catches their eyes is an out-and-out city of death, there are corpses everywhere, there is rubble everywhere, the Tangut people killed very cleanly, the chickens and dogs are not left, the streets are quiet and even the wild dogs can't be seen, the redshirt soldiers walk silently, one by one with a solemn expression, any army will spontaneously have a sense of shame and anger when they see the people of their own nationality being slaughtered by different ** teams, The Red Shirt soldiers, who had been educated in nationalism, were of course even more indignant, and their eyes were about to burst into flames.

Walking to the Weinan Mansion in the center of the city, a Beijing temple with people's heads built up is even more shocking, there are men, women, old people and children, the heads of lifeless people are stacked together like bricks and tiles, each deceased person retains the expression before death, some eyes are still open, some mouths are still wide open, as if to accuse the atrocities of the Western Xia army.

The redshirts stopped in front of this spectacle of human heads, their fists clenched, and they wanted to cut down the Tangut people at once. Liu Ziguang walked over from behind with the generals, and was silent when he saw this tragic scene, took off his helmet and bowed his head in silence, and the army also took off his hat in silence, and after a while, Liu Ziguang raised his head and said: "We can't let the bodies of the fathers and elders in Guanzhong be trampled by crows and wild dogs, send people to dig pits outside the city and bury them, and try to bury their bodies according to the family." ”

Most of the corpses in the city are miserable and white, but there is no ** sign, indicating that the massacre of the Tanguts was carried out two or three days ago, Liu Ziguang asked people to bury the corpses and tidy up the city, and at the same time sent people around to reconnoiter the traces of the Tanguts, by the way to see if there were any survivors.

Liu Ziguang took the generals to the back house of the Weinan Prefecture Ya, temporarily set up a temporary headquarters here, walked into the courtyard of the back house, there were still corpses all over the ground, there were domestic servants, there were also maids, the strange thing is that there were two corpses of Western Xia soldiers by a well, high nose and concave eyes sheepskin robe, still holding a scimitar in their hands, both corpses had a long sword through the wound on their chests, and then look at the edge of the well, there was a female corpse lying on the edge, dressed in plain white, holding a sword in her hand, looking at her appearance was only in her twenties, but she was also born with a flower and moon appearance, and there was a deep big mouth on her waist and eyes, which seems to have been pierced by a spear.

"It may be the daughter of the official family, but it is a martyr woman, this corpse should be buried in a pit alone, and then a monument will be erected." Liu Ziguang said with a sigh.

The two soldiers went over to carry the corpse, and suddenly one of them seemed to hear something, walked up to the well platform and lifted the wicker basket covering it to look inside carefully, then turned his head and said, "Dashuai, there seems to be someone here." ”

When Liu Ziguang heard this, he hurriedly walked up, lay at the mouth of the well and looked inside, and sure enough, he saw a figure inside, and he was still shouting: "Mother, I want mother." ”

"Go down and get the kid up." Liu Ziguang said.

A thin soldier was hung down holding on to the rope of the well, and after a while he heard a shout from the bottom of the well: "It's a girl doll sitting in a barrel, I have tied the rope to the barrel handle, you can pull it up." ”

Liu Ziguang hurriedly said: "Wait, cover the child's eyes first, otherwise you will be blind at first sight." ”

A moment later, the soldiers hoisted up a large wooden bucket from the bottom of the well, and a child of two or three years old was sitting cross-legged in the bucket, still holding a leftover nest in his hand, his black head was tied into two pigtails, and he looked like a female doll, and although his eyes were covered by the soldier's scarf, he could still see a delicate little nose and a miserable little white face.

The little girl is very well-behaved, she doesn't cry or scratch the scarf on her face, so she still sits in the bucket timidly, looking at the outline of the little face and the woman who died by the well, Liu Ziguang took out the little girl, like holding his own child in his arms, someone next to him immediately handed over a blanket, helping to drape it on the child, Liu Ziguang mouthed, everyone hurriedly moved the body away, vacated a room, Liu Ziguang walked in with the child, found a clean place to put him down, the light in the room was moderate, Only then did he untie the scarf on the child's face.

A pair of innocent big eyes stared at Liu Ziguang, still not daring to speak, Liu Ziguang smiled, took out a piece of candy from his arms, personally opened the candy paper and stuffed it into the child's mouth, this sugar is made of milk and sucrose, which is specially used by the Red Shirt soldiers to supplement blood sugar when they are tired, of course, it is also best used to make snacks for children.

The little girl obviously hadn't eaten such a delicious thing, plus she hadn't eaten enough for two consecutive days, so she swallowed the toffee in two or three strokes, and immediately burped when she ate too quickly, Liu Ziguang caressed the little girl lovingly, and said kindly: "Eat slowly, uncle has a lot of here." ”

The little girl ate several toffees in a row, and finally recovered a little vitality, her little face gradually became a little ruddy, Liu Ziguang asked, "Little friend, what is your name?" ”

The little girl replied in a milky voice: "My name is Xue Xiangying, and I am two and a half years old today. ”

"That's good, that uncle asked you, when did you go down to that well?" Liu Ziguang asked seductively.

"Well, I don't know, my mother asked me to hide it, saying that playing with Tibetan cats and cats, the bad guys are going to catch Xiao Yingying, and you have to wait until the Han speaker comes to make a sound, uncle, are you talking Chinese?" The little girl asked, tilting her head.

"Of course, the uncles speak Chinese, and the uncles are all Han."

"Then I'll ask my mother to come out too, so you don't have to hide." The little girl was innocent and didn't know that her mother had died in the well in order to protect herself.

"My mother is sleeping, Xiao Yingying is well-behaved, don't disturb my mother's sleep." When Liu Ziguang said this, he couldn't help but feel a sting in his heart, he is also a person with a daughter, and he couldn't bear to tell her the truth when he saw such a well-behaved and lovely girl lose her mother.

"Well, Xiao Yingying is well-behaved, don't disturb my mother's sleep. Uncle, did you beat those yellow-headed bad guys away? The little girl asked, with her big, innocent eyes.

"Yes, it was the uncle who took the other uncles to beat the bad guys away, and Xiao Yingying will never have to hide in the well in the future." Liu Ziguang said.

"Well, are you my father, uncle?" The little girl continued to ask, this strange question surprised Liu Ziguang, and he didn't know how to answer, but fortunately, the little girl's next sentence made him understand, "Mother said that sooner or later, Daddy will bring the army to drive the bad guys away, uncle, you drove the bad guys away, so are you my father?" ”

"Xiao Yingying, don't you know your father?" Liu Ziguang said strangely.

"Well, my mother and I haven't seen my father for two years, uncle, aren't you my father? Do you know my daddy? ”

Liu Ziguang understood, the little girl's father may be a military general, when the child was half a year old, he went on the expedition, and never came back, this year the army is in chaos, who knows if he died in battle, this poor child may have no relatives in the world, immediately he picked up the little girl and said: "Uncle is Daddy, Daddy is back." ”

The little girl suddenly howled and cried, the cry shook the sky, it seemed that many years of grievances had been released, a pair of small hands tightly grasped Liu Ziguang's placket and never let go, Liu Ziguang's nose was also sore, and he couldn't bear to shed tears, but his voice had changed slightly: "Xiao Yingying doesn't cry, Daddy is back, Daddy will never let you be wronged again." ”

The men around him couldn't help but have slightly red eyes, the experience of the only survivor in the city touched the strong hearts of all the soldiers present, and several soldiers couldn't help but go out of the door to quietly wipe away the hero's tears, and looked up to see their comrades but covered up and said: "The wind is blind." ”

The mother of the little girl Xue Xiangying, the body of the young woman who died by the well has been simply cleaned up, covered with a white robe on the outside, and her face has been wiped with some rouge, placed on the gum indoors for the little girl to see the last face, Liu Ziguang stood by the bed with the child in her arms and stopped for a while, Xiao Yingying was very sensible and did not cry or speak, Liu Ziguang said: "Mother may have to sleep for a long time, can you live with your father during this time?" ”

Xiao Yingying looked at her sleeping mother, then at Liu Ziguang, and said one word simply: "Okay." ”

The red-shirted soldiers were numerous, the corpses in the city were quickly cleaned up, a large area of new graves outside the city of Weinan was also extinguished, and the blood stains on the streets were covered with soil.

"You have already seen what the Xixia people have done, and they don't say much nonsense, if it is a man, they will chase after him to take revenge and wash his blood with blood! The three armies obey the order! ”

The black pressed people shouted in unison: "Here! ”

"The hussar battalion immediately attacked and pursued the enemy army, with only one word: kill! Never accept the surrender of any Western Xia army! ”